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H.B. 80

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SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT AMENDMENTS

             2     
2003 GENERAL SESSION

             3     
STATE OF UTAH

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Sponsor: Eli H. Anderson

             5      This act modifies provisions relating to Independent Special Districts to authorize special
             6      service districts to provide emergency medical and ambulance services.
             7      This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
             8      AMENDS:
             9          17A-2-1304, as last amended by Chapter 243, Laws of Utah 2002
             10      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             11          Section 1. Section 17A-2-1304 is amended to read:
             12           17A-2-1304. Establishing special service districts -- Improvement districts within
             13      special service districts.
             14          (1) (a) A county or a municipality may establish a special service district for the
             15      purpose of providing within the area of the special service district any of the following services
             16      or any combination of them:
             17          (i) water;
             18          (ii) sewerage;
             19          (iii) drainage;
             20          (iv) flood control;
             21          (v) garbage;
             22          (vi) health care;
             23          (vii) transportation;
             24          (viii) recreation;
             25          (ix) fire protection;
             26          (x) in a county of the first class, providing, operating, and maintaining jail facilities for
             27      the confinement of municipal, state, and other detainees and prisoners;



             28          (xi) street lighting;
             29          (xii) consolidated 911 and emergency dispatch; [and]
             30          (xiii) emergency medical and ambulance; and
             31          [(xiii)] (xiv) animal shelter and control.
             32          (b) Snow removal services may be provided in special service districts established
             33      under this section to more effectively carry out the purposes of those special service districts.
             34          (c) These services may be provided through facilities or systems acquired or
             35      constructed for that purpose through construction, purchase, lease, contract, gift, or
             36      condemnation or any combination of the above.
             37          (d) Special service districts may contract with a franchised, certificated public utility for
             38      the construction and operation of an electrical service distribution system within the special
             39      service district.
             40          (2) (a) The area within any special service district may include all or any part of the
             41      county or municipality that established it except that:
             42          (i) a special service district may not include the area of any other special service district
             43      established by the same county or municipality that is now providing the same service
             44      proposed to be supplied by the new special service district;
             45          (ii) a special service district established by a county may contain all or a part of any
             46      municipality or of an existing improvement district that provides the same service proposed to
             47      be provided by the special service district, but only with the consent of the governing authority
             48      as provided in a resolution or ordinance adopted by the governing authority; and
             49          (iii) a special service district may not include any area not directly benefited by the
             50      services provided under this section without the consent of the nonbenefited landowner.
             51          (b) All parts of a special service district need not be contiguous.
             52          (3) (a) As provided in Section 17A-2-1315 , the governing authority of any special
             53      service district created under this part may create one or more improvement districts within the
             54      boundaries of the special service district by following the procedures in, and meeting the
             55      requirements of, Chapter 3, Part 2, County Improvement District Act, or Part 3, Utah
             56      Municipal Improvement District Act.
             57          (b) The intent to create an improvement district need not be present at the time a
             58      special service district is organized.



             59          (c) Any improvement district created within the boundaries of a special service district
             60      may only be organized to undertake projects or improvements for which the special service
             61      district creating that improvement district was organized.
             62          (d) The special service district shall meet all procedural requirements for creating an
             63      improvement district at the time the improvement district is created, as provided in Section
             64      17A-2-1315 and in Chapter 3, Part 2, County Improvement District Act, or Part 3, Utah
             65      Municipal Improvement District Act.
             66          (e) In determining whether or not a project or improvement undertaken by an
             67      improvement district is within the scope of the purposes for which the special service district
             68      creating that improvement district was organized, any project or improvement reasonably
             69      related to the purposes for which the special service district creating that improvement district
             70      was organized is considered to be within the scope of those purposes.
             71          (4) The creation of a special service district to provide jail services as provided in
             72      Subsection (1)(a)(x) does not affect the ability of a municipality under Section 10-8-58 to
             73      provide, operate, and maintain facilities for the temporary incarceration, not to exceed 72
             74      hours, of persons charged with the violation of a municipal ordinance.




Legislative Review Note
    as of 11-26-02 11:53 AM


A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel


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