S.B. 47 Enrolled

1

LIMITED PURPOSE LOCAL GOVERNMENT
2 ENTITIES REVISIONS
3 2008 GENERAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Chief Sponsor: Dennis E. Stowell
6 House Sponsor: Fred R. Hunsaker
7
8 LONG TITLE
9 General Description:
10 This bill modifies provisions relating to limited purpose local government entities.
11 Highlighted Provisions:
12 This bill:
13 . repeals and reenacts, rewrites, clarifies, and modifies provisions related to special
14 service districts, municipal building authorities, and conservation districts;
15 . expands the entities authorized to create a building authority to include local districts
16 and special service districts;
17 . repeals provisions related to parking and business improvement districts, special
18 road districts, and historic districts;
19 . reenacts historic preservation authority for counties and municipalities;
20 . modifies assessment area provisions to preserve authority eliminated through the
21 repeal of parking and business improvement district provisions;
22 . requires the type of local district proposed to be created to be specified in the
23 petition or resolution proposing the creation of a local district;
24 . clarifies that a local district board of trustees member must be a registered voter at
25 the location of the member's residence;
26 . modifies a provision authorizing a local district to agree to the use of its land or land
27 over which it has a right-of-way;
28 . provides that a previously created local district authorized to provide fire protection
29 service is also authorized to provide paramedic and emergency service;

30 . allows an agent or officer of an owner of land to qualify as a board of trustees
31 member of certain local districts with seasonally occupied homes;
32 . specifies who may administer an oath of office to a local district board of trustees
33 member and requires an oath to be filed with the local district clerk;
34 . modifies a provision relating to the relationship between a local district election and
35 a municipal general election;
36 . exempts local district and special service district elections from early voting
37 provisions;
38 . eliminates a requirement that a water conservancy district publish notice of a board
39 vacancy;
40 . reduces the percentage of property owners or voters required to protest the creation
41 of a special service district or the addition of new territory or a new service to the
42 special service district;
43 . eliminates a provision stating that a federal employee protection act applies to public
44 transit district leases and other agreements;
45 . makes a provision allowing a service area to establish divisions for electing some or
46 all elected board members to apply to all local districts rather than just service areas;
47 . increases the number of services that a local district may provide from two to four;
48 . expands the group of service areas that have a higher allowable tax rate to include
49 service areas in second class counties, if the service area provides fire protection,
50 paramedic, and emergency services;
51 . eliminates a cap on the number of local district board of trustees members allowed,
52 and makes conforming changes;
53 . authorizes animal control officers of special service districts to issue misdemeanor
54 and infraction citations;
55 . limits the area that an improvement district for electric service may include and
56 requires that type of district to have applied for and received approval of a
57 certification before a certain date;

58 . authorizes a special service district to provide service outside its boundary;
59 . modifies the type of correctional facilities and services that a special service district
60 is authorized to provide;
61 . authorizes a special service district in a county of the first class to provide extended
62 police protection;
63 . eliminates a cap on the number of special service district administrative control
64 board members allowed;
65 . modifies the qualifications of an administrative control board member;
66 . clarifies that a provision relating to the imposition and increasing of local district fees
67 does not apply to impact fees;
68 . modifies a provision relating to the oath of office of local district board members;
69 . clarifies that a voter at an election of a local district board member must be a
70 registered voter within the district;
71 . authorizes a local district board to pay local district board members a specified
72 compensation for training every year rather than every two years;
73 . modifies the authority of a conservation district;
74 . modifies the date by which a conservation district's annual report is to be submitted
75 to the commission; and
76 . makes technical changes.
77 Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
78 None
79 Other Special Clauses:
80 This bill coordinates with H.B. 77, Personal Property Tax Amendments, by providing
81 technical amendments.
82 Utah Code Sections Affected:
83 AMENDS:
84 4-18-3, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 179
85 4-18-5, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 179

86 4-20-1.5, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 179
87 10-2-101, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
88 10-2-401, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
89 10-2-428, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
90 10-9a-103, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 188, 199, and 329
91 10-15-4, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1992, Chapter 30
92 10-15-6, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1992, Chapter 30
93 11-14-102, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
94 11-17-3, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 105
95 11-27-2, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
96 11-32-2, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1993, Chapter 227
97 11-36-102, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
98 11-36-201, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
99 11-39-101, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
100 11-40-101, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
101 11-42-102, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
102 11-39-104, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2003, Chapter 259
103 11-43-102, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 118
104 17-27a-103, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 188, 199, and 329
105 17-52-403, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
106 17-53-311, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 102
107 17B-1-102, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
108 17B-1-103, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
109 17B-1-202, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
110 17B-1-203, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
111 17B-1-205, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
112 17B-1-215, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
113 17B-1-302, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329

114 17B-1-303, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
115 17B-1-306, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
116 17B-1-312, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
117 17B-1-643, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
118 17B-1-1002, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
119 17B-1-1101, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
120 17B-1-1103, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
121 17B-1-1104, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
122 17B-2a-404, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
123 17B-2a-405, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
124 17B-2a-406, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
125 17B-2a-804, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
126 17B-2a-813, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
127 17B-2a-1005, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
128 17B-2a-1007, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
129 19-3-301, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
130 19-6-502, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
131 20A-1-102, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 75, 256, 285, and 329
132 20A-11-1202, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
133 26-8a-405.1, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
134 26-8a-405.2, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapters 25 and 205
135 51-7-3, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 207
136 52-4-202, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 45 and 249
137 52-4-203, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 35, 204, and 329
138 53-2-502, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 331
139 53A-2-123, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
140 54-14-103, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 242 and 329
141 59-2-102, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 107, 234, and 329

142 59-2-924, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 107 and 329
143 59-21-1, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 303
144 59-21-2, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 303
145 63-9-68, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 118
146 63E-1-102, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
147 67-1a-6.5, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 212 and 329
148 67-3-1, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
149 69-2-4, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1992, Chapter 30
150 69-2-5, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 241
151 73-2-1, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
152 73-5-15, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 179 and 329
153 73-10-21, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
154 77-7-18, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 2
155 78B-4-509, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 3
156 ENACTS:
157 10-8-85.9, Utah Code Annotated 1953
158 17-50-324, Utah Code Annotated 1953
159 17D-1-101, Utah Code Annotated 1953
160 17D-1-102, Utah Code Annotated 1953
161 17D-1-103, Utah Code Annotated 1953
162 17D-1-104, Utah Code Annotated 1953
163 17D-1-105, Utah Code Annotated 1953
164 17D-1-106, Utah Code Annotated 1953
165 17D-1-107, Utah Code Annotated 1953
166 17D-1-108, Utah Code Annotated 1953
167 17D-1-109, Utah Code Annotated 1953
168 17D-1-201, Utah Code Annotated 1953
169 17D-1-202, Utah Code Annotated 1953

170 17D-1-203, Utah Code Annotated 1953
171 17D-1-204, Utah Code Annotated 1953
172 17D-1-205, Utah Code Annotated 1953
173 17D-1-206, Utah Code Annotated 1953
174 17D-1-207, Utah Code Annotated 1953
175 17D-1-208, Utah Code Annotated 1953
176 17D-1-209, Utah Code Annotated 1953
177 17D-1-210, Utah Code Annotated 1953
178 17D-1-211, Utah Code Annotated 1953
179 17D-1-212, Utah Code Annotated 1953
180 17D-1-301, Utah Code Annotated 1953
181 17D-1-302, Utah Code Annotated 1953
182 17D-1-303, Utah Code Annotated 1953
183 17D-1-304, Utah Code Annotated 1953
184 17D-1-305, Utah Code Annotated 1953
185 17D-1-306, Utah Code Annotated 1953
186 17D-1-401, Utah Code Annotated 1953
187 17D-1-402, Utah Code Annotated 1953
188 17D-1-403, Utah Code Annotated 1953
189 17D-1-501, Utah Code Annotated 1953
190 17D-1-502, Utah Code Annotated 1953
191 17D-1-503, Utah Code Annotated 1953
192 17D-1-504, Utah Code Annotated 1953
193 17D-1-505, Utah Code Annotated 1953
194 17D-1-506, Utah Code Annotated 1953
195 17D-1-507, Utah Code Annotated 1953
196 17D-1-508, Utah Code Annotated 1953
197 17D-1-509, Utah Code Annotated 1953

198 17D-1-601, Utah Code Annotated 1953
199 17D-1-602, Utah Code Annotated 1953
200 17D-1-603, Utah Code Annotated 1953
201 17D-2-101, Utah Code Annotated 1953
202 17D-2-102, Utah Code Annotated 1953
203 17D-2-103, Utah Code Annotated 1953
204 17D-2-104, Utah Code Annotated 1953
205 17D-2-105, Utah Code Annotated 1953
206 17D-2-106, Utah Code Annotated 1953
207 17D-2-107, Utah Code Annotated 1953
208 17D-2-108, Utah Code Annotated 1953
209 17D-2-109, Utah Code Annotated 1953
210 17D-2-110, Utah Code Annotated 1953
211 17D-2-201, Utah Code Annotated 1953
212 17D-2-202, Utah Code Annotated 1953
213 17D-2-203, Utah Code Annotated 1953
214 17D-2-301, Utah Code Annotated 1953
215 17D-2-302, Utah Code Annotated 1953
216 17D-2-401, Utah Code Annotated 1953
217 17D-2-402, Utah Code Annotated 1953
218 17D-2-403, Utah Code Annotated 1953
219 17D-2-404, Utah Code Annotated 1953
220 17D-2-405, Utah Code Annotated 1953
221 17D-2-501, Utah Code Annotated 1953
222 17D-2-502, Utah Code Annotated 1953
223 17D-2-503, Utah Code Annotated 1953
224 17D-2-504, Utah Code Annotated 1953
225 17D-2-505, Utah Code Annotated 1953

226 17D-2-506, Utah Code Annotated 1953
227 17D-2-507, Utah Code Annotated 1953
228 17D-2-601, Utah Code Annotated 1953
229 17D-2-602, Utah Code Annotated 1953
230 17D-2-701, Utah Code Annotated 1953
231 17D-2-702, Utah Code Annotated 1953
232 17D-3-101, Utah Code Annotated 1953
233 17D-3-103, Utah Code Annotated 1953
234 17D-3-104, Utah Code Annotated 1953
235 17D-3-201, Utah Code Annotated 1953
236 17D-3-202, Utah Code Annotated 1953
237 17D-3-203, Utah Code Annotated 1953
238 17D-3-204, Utah Code Annotated 1953
239 17D-3-301, Utah Code Annotated 1953
240 17D-3-302, Utah Code Annotated 1953
241 17D-3-303, Utah Code Annotated 1953
242 17D-3-304, Utah Code Annotated 1953
243 17D-3-305, Utah Code Annotated 1953
244 17D-3-306, Utah Code Annotated 1953
245 17D-3-307, Utah Code Annotated 1953
246 17D-3-308, Utah Code Annotated 1953
247 17D-3-309, Utah Code Annotated 1953
248 17D-3-310, Utah Code Annotated 1953
249 20A-3-605, Utah Code Annotated 1953
250 RENUMBERS AND AMENDS:
251 17B-1-306.5, (Renumbered from 17B-2a-906, as enacted by Laws of Utah 2007,
252 Chapter 329)
253 17D-3-102, (Renumbered from 17A-3-800, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007,

254 Chapter 179)
255 REPEALS:
256 17A-2-1301, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
257 17A-2-1302, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2003, Chapter 292
258 17A-2-1303, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
259 17A-2-1304, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 183 and 203
260 17A-2-1305, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
261 17A-2-1306, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
262 17A-2-1307, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
263 17A-2-1308, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2003, Chapter 292
264 17A-2-1309, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
265 17A-2-1310, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
266 17A-2-1311, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 233
267 17A-2-1312, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 105
268 17A-2-1313, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 233
269 17A-2-1314, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
270 17A-2-1315, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
271 17A-2-1316, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 105
272 17A-2-1317, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
273 17A-2-1318, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 148
274 17A-2-1319, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
275 17A-2-1320, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2001, Chapter 195
276 17A-2-1321, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2004, Chapter 316
277 17A-2-1322, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapters 105 and 260
278 17A-2-1323, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
279 17A-2-1324, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
280 17A-2-1325, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
281 17A-2-1326, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapters 203 and 329

282 17A-2-1327, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 233
283 17A-2-1328, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
284 17A-2-1329, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 233
285 17A-2-1330, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2007, Chapter 329
286 17A-2-1331, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
287 17A-2-1332, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
288 17A-3-401, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
289 17A-3-402, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
290 17A-3-403, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
291 17A-3-404, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
292 17A-3-405, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
293 17A-3-406, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
294 17A-3-407, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2003, Chapter 292
295 17A-3-408, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
296 17A-3-409, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
297 17A-3-410, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
298 17A-3-411, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
299 17A-3-412, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2000, Chapter 1
300 17A-3-413, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
301 17A-3-414, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
302 17A-3-801, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
303 17A-3-802, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
304 17A-3-803, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
305 17A-3-804, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1997, Chapter 180
306 17A-3-805, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2005, Chapter 39
307 17A-3-806, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
308 17A-3-807, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
309 17A-3-1201, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1993, Chapter 227

310 17A-3-1202, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
311 17A-3-1203, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1993, Chapter 227
312 17A-3-1204, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1994, Chapter 146
313 17A-3-1205, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
314 17A-3-1206, as last amended by Laws of Utah 1993, Chapter 227
315 17A-3-1301, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
316 17A-3-1302, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
317 17A-3-1303, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
318 17A-3-1304, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
319 17A-3-1305, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
320 17A-3-1306, as renumbered and amended by Laws of Utah 1990, Chapter 186
321
322 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
323 Section 1. Section 4-18-3 is amended to read:
324 4-18-3. Definitions.
325 As used in this chapter:
326 (1) "Alternate" means a substitute for a district supervisor if the district supervisor
327 cannot attend a meeting.
328 (2) (a) "Animal feeding operation" means a facility where animals, other than aquatic
329 animals, are stabled or confined and fed or maintained for a total of 45 days or more in any
330 12-month period.
331 (b) "Animal feeding operation" does not include an operation where animals are in areas
332 such as pastures or rangeland that sustain crops or forage growth during the entire time the
333 animals are present.
334 (3) "Commission" means the Conservation Commission created in Section 4-18-4 .
335 (4) "Comprehensive nutrient management plan" means a plan that identifies actions or
336 priorities that will be followed to meet clearly defined nutrient management goals at an animal
337 feeding operation.

338 (5) "District" or " conservation district" [means a governmental subdivision of this state
339 organized under Title 17A, Chapter 3, Part 8, Conservation Districts] has the same meaning as
340 "conservation district" as defined in Section 17D-3-102 .
341 Section 2. Section 4-18-5 is amended to read:
342 4-18-5. Conservation commission -- Functions and duties.
343 (1) The commission shall:
344 (a) facilitate the development and implementation of the strategies and programs
345 necessary to protect, conserve, utilize, and develop the soil and water resources of the state;
346 (b) disseminate information regarding districts' activities and programs;
347 (c) supervise the formation, reorganization, or dissolution of districts according to the
348 requirements of Title [17A] 17D, Chapter 3, [Part 8,] Conservation [Districts] District Act;
349 (d) prescribe uniform accounting and recordkeeping procedures for districts and require
350 each district to submit annually an audit of its funds to the commission;
351 (e) approve and make loans for agricultural purposes, from the Agriculture Resource
352 Development Fund for:
353 (i) nonfederal rangeland improvement and management projects;
354 (ii) watershed protection and flood prevention projects;
355 (iii) agricultural cropland soil and water conservation projects; and
356 (iv) programs designed to promote energy efficient farming practices;
357 (f) administer federal or state funds in accordance with applicable federal or state
358 guidelines and make loans or grants from those funds to land occupiers for the conservation of
359 soil or water resources;
360 (g) seek to coordinate soil and water protection, conservation, and development
361 activities and programs of state agencies, local governmental units, other states, special interest
362 groups, and federal agencies; and
363 (h) plan watershed and flood control projects in cooperation with appropriate local,
364 state, and federal authorities and coordinate flood control projects in the state.
365 (2) The commission may:

366 (a) employ, with the approval of the department, an administrator and necessary
367 technical experts and employees;
368 (b) execute contracts or other instruments necessary to exercise its powers;
369 (c) sue and be sued; and
370 (d) adopt rules, in accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative
371 Rulemaking Act, necessary to carry out the powers and duties specified in Subsections (1)(d),
372 (e), (f), and (2)(b).
373 Section 3. Section 4-20-1.5 is amended to read:
374 4-20-1.5. State Grazing Advisory Board -- Duties.
375 (1) (a) There is created within the department the State Grazing Advisory Board.
376 (b) The commissioner shall appoint the following members:
377 (i) one member from each regional board;
378 (ii) one member from the Conservation Commission created in Section 4-18-4 ;
379 (iii) one representative of the Department of Natural Resources;
380 (iv) two livestock producers at-large; and
381 (v) one representative of the oil, gas, or mining industry.
382 (2) The term of office for a state board member is four years.
383 (3) Members of the state board shall elect a chair, who shall serve for two years.
384 (4) (a) (i) A member who is not a government employee may not receive compensation
385 or benefits for the member's service, but may receive per diem and expenses incurred in the
386 performance of the member's official duties at the rates established by the Division of Finance
387 under Sections 63A-3-106 and 63A-3-107 .
388 (ii) A member may decline to receive per diem and expenses for the member's service.
389 (b) (i) A state government officer and employee member who does not receive salary,
390 per diem, or expenses from the agency the member represents for the member's service may
391 receive per diem and expenses incurred in the performance of the member's official duties at the
392 rates established by the Division of Finance under Sections 63A-3-106 and 63A-3-107 .
393 (ii) A state government officer and employee member may decline to receive per diem

394 and expenses for the member's service.
395 (c) (i) A local government member who does not receive salary, per diem, or expenses
396 from the entity that the member represents for the member's service may receive per diem and
397 expenses incurred in the performance of the member's official duties at the rates established by
398 the Division of Finance under Sections 63A-3-106 and 63A-3-107 .
399 (ii) A local government member may decline to receive per diem and expenses for the
400 member's service.
401 (5) The state board shall:
402 (a) receive:
403 (i) advice and recommendations from a regional board concerning:
404 (A) management plans for public lands, state lands, and school and institutional trust
405 lands as defined in Section 53C-1-103 , within the regional board's region; and
406 (B) any issue that impacts grazing on private lands, public lands, state lands, or school
407 and institutional trust lands as defined in Section 53C-1-103 , in its region; and
408 (ii) requests for fund monies from the entities described in Subsections (5)(c)(i) through
409 (iv);
410 (b) recommend state policy positions and cooperative agency participation in federal
411 and state land management plans to the department and to the Public Lands Policy Coordinating
412 Office created under Section 63-38d-602 ; and
413 (c) advise the department on the requests and recommendations of:
414 (i) regional boards;
415 (ii) county weed control boards created under Section 4-17-4 ;
416 (iii) cooperative weed management associations; and
417 (iv) conservation districts created under the authority of Title [17A] 17D, Chapter 3,
418 [Part 8,] Conservation [Districts] District Act.
419 Section 4. Section 10-2-101 is amended to read:
420 10-2-101. Definitions.
421 (1) As used in this part:

422 (a) "Commission" means a boundary commission established under Section 10-2-409
423 for the county in which the property that is proposed to be incorporated is located.
424 (b) "Feasibility consultant" means a person or firm with expertise in the processes and
425 economics of local government.
426 (c) "Private," with respect to real property, means not owned by the United States or
427 any agency of the federal government, the state, a county, a municipality, a school district, a
428 local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, a
429 special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service
430 District Act, or any other political subdivision or governmental entity of the state.
431 (2) For purposes of this part:
432 (a) the owner of real property shall be the record title owner according to the records of
433 the county recorder on the date of the filing of the request or petition; and
434 (b) the value of private real property shall be determined according to the last
435 assessment roll for county taxes before the filing of the request or petition.
436 (3) For purposes of each provision of this part that requires the owners of private real
437 property covering a percentage or fraction of the total private land area within an area to sign a
438 request or petition:
439 (a) a parcel of real property may not be included in the calculation of the required
440 percentage or fraction unless the request or petition is signed by:
441 (i) except as provided in Subsection (3)(a)(ii), owners representing a majority
442 ownership interest in that parcel; or
443 (ii) if the parcel is owned by joint tenants or tenants by the entirety, 50% of the number
444 of owners of that parcel;
445 (b) the signature of a person signing a request or petition in a representative capacity on
446 behalf of an owner is invalid unless:
447 (i) the person's representative capacity and the name of the owner the person represents
448 are indicated on the request or petition with the person's signature; and
449 (ii) the person provides documentation accompanying the request or petition that

450 substantiates the person's representative capacity; and
451 (c) subject to Subsection (3)(b), a duly appointed personal representative may sign a
452 request or petition on behalf of a deceased owner.
453 Section 5. Section 10-2-401 is amended to read:
454 10-2-401. Definitions -- Property owner provisions.
455 (1) As used in this part:
456 (a) "Affected entity" means:
457 (i) a county in whose unincorporated area the area proposed for annexation is located;
458 (ii) a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local
459 Districts, or special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special
460 Service District Act, whose boundaries include any part of an area proposed for annexation;
461 (iii) a school district whose boundaries include any part of an area proposed for
462 annexation; and
463 (iv) a municipality whose boundaries are within 1/2 mile of an area proposed for
464 annexation.
465 (b) "Annexation petition" means a petition under Section 10-2-403 proposing the
466 annexation to a municipality of a contiguous, unincorporated area that is contiguous to the
467 municipality.
468 (c) "Commission" means a boundary commission established under Section 10-2-409
469 for the county in which the property that is proposed for annexation is located.
470 (d) "Expansion area" means the unincorporated area that is identified in an annexation
471 policy plan under Section 10-2-401.5 as the area that the municipality anticipates annexing in
472 the future.
473 (e) "Feasibility consultant" means a person or firm with expertise in the processes and
474 economics of local government.
475 (f) "Municipal selection committee" means a committee in each county composed of the
476 mayor of each municipality within that county.
477 (g) "Private," with respect to real property, means not owned by the United States or

478 any agency of the federal government, the state, a county, a municipality, a school district, a
479 local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, a
480 special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service
481 District Act, or any other political subdivision or governmental entity of the state.
482 (h) "Specified county" means a county of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class.
483 (i) "Urban development" means:
484 (i) a housing development with more than 15 residential units and an average density
485 greater than one residential unit per acre; or
486 (ii) a commercial or industrial development for which cost projections exceed $750,000
487 for all phases.
488 (2) For purposes of this part:
489 (a) the owner of real property shall be the record title owner according to the records of
490 the county recorder on the date of the filing of the petition or protest; and
491 (b) the value of private real property shall be determined according to the last
492 assessment roll for county taxes before the filing of the petition or protest.
493 (3) For purposes of each provision of this part that requires the owners of private real
494 property covering a percentage or majority of the total private land area within an area to sign a
495 petition or protest:
496 (a) a parcel of real property may not be included in the calculation of the required
497 percentage or majority unless the petition or protest is signed by:
498 (i) except as provided in Subsection (3)(a)(ii), owners representing a majority
499 ownership interest in that parcel; or
500 (ii) if the parcel is owned by joint tenants or tenants by the entirety, 50% of the number
501 of owners of that parcel;
502 (b) the signature of a person signing a petition or protest in a representative capacity on
503 behalf of an owner is invalid unless:
504 (i) the person's representative capacity and the name of the owner the person represents
505 are indicated on the petition or protest with the person's signature; and

506 (ii) the person provides documentation accompanying the petition or protest that
507 substantiates the person's representative capacity; and
508 (c) subject to Subsection (3)(b), a duly appointed personal representative may sign a
509 petition or protest on behalf of a deceased owner.
510 Section 6. Section 10-2-428 is amended to read:
511 10-2-428. Neither annexation nor boundary adjustment has an effect on the
512 boundaries of most local districts or special service districts.
513 Except as provided in Section 17B-1-416 and Subsection 17B-1-502 (2), the annexation
514 of an unincorporated area by a municipality or the adjustment of a boundary shared by
515 municipalities does not affect the boundaries of a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose
516 Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or a special service district under Title [17A] 17D,
517 Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act.
518 Section 7. Section 10-8-85.9 is enacted to read:
519 CHAPTER 8. POWERS AND DUTIES OF MUNICIPALITIES
520 10-8-85.9. Preservation of historical areas and sites.
521 A municipality may:
522 (1) expend public funds to preserve, protect, or enhance an historical area or site;
523 (2) acquire an historical area or site by direct purchase, contract, lease, trade, or gift;
524 (3) obtain an easement or right-of-way across public or private property to ensure
525 access or proper development of an historical area or site;
526 (4) protect an historical area or site;
527 (5) ensure proper development and utilization of land or an area adjacent to an
528 historical area or site; and
529 (6) enter into an agreement with a private individual for the right to purchase an
530 historical area or site if and when the private individual elects to sell or dispose of the owner's
531 property.
532 Section 8. Section 10-9a-103 is amended to read:
533 10-9a-103. Definitions.

534 As used in this chapter:
535 (1) "Affected entity" means a county, municipality, local district, special service district
536 under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, school
537 district, interlocal cooperation entity established under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal
538 Cooperation Act, specified public utility, a property owner, a property owners association, or
539 the Utah Department of Transportation, if:
540 (a) the entity's services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant
541 modification because of an intended use of land;
542 (b) the entity has filed with the municipality a copy of the entity's general or long-range
543 plan; or
544 (c) the entity has filed with the municipality a request for notice during the same
545 calendar year and before the municipality provides notice to an affected entity in compliance
546 with a requirement imposed under this chapter.
547 (2) "Appeal authority" means the person, board, commission, agency, or other body
548 designated by ordinance to decide an appeal of a decision of a land use application or a
549 variance.
550 (3) "Billboard" means a freestanding ground sign located on industrial, commercial, or
551 residential property if the sign is designed or intended to direct attention to a business, product,
552 or service that is not sold, offered, or existing on the property where the sign is located.
553 (4) "Charter school" includes:
554 (a) an operating charter school;
555 (b) a charter school applicant that has its application approved by a chartering entity in
556 accordance with Title 53A, Chapter 1a, Part 5, The Utah Charter Schools Act; and
557 (c) an entity who is working on behalf of a charter school or approved charter applicant
558 to develop or construct a charter school building.
559 (5) "Chief executive officer" means the:
560 (a) mayor in municipalities operating under all forms of municipal government except
561 the council-manager form; or

562 (b) city manager in municipalities operating under the council-manager form of
563 municipal government.
564 (6) "Conditional use" means a land use that, because of its unique characteristics or
565 potential impact on the municipality, surrounding neighbors, or adjacent land uses, may not be
566 compatible in some areas or may be compatible only if certain conditions are required that
567 mitigate or eliminate the detrimental impacts.
568 (7) "Constitutional taking" means a governmental action that results in a taking of
569 private property so that compensation to the owner of the property is required by the:
570 (a) Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States; or
571 (b) Utah Constitution Article I, Section 22.
572 (8) "Culinary water authority" means the department, agency, or public entity with
573 responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of the culinary water system and sources for
574 the subject property.
575 (9) (a) "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one
576 or more of a person's major life activities, including a person having a record of such an
577 impairment or being regarded as having such an impairment.
578 (b) "Disability" does not include current illegal use of, or addiction to, any federally
579 controlled substance, as defined in Section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C.
580 802.
581 (10) "Elderly person" means a person who is 60 years old or older, who desires or
582 needs to live with other elderly persons in a group setting, but who is capable of living
583 independently.
584 (11) "Fire authority" means the department, agency, or public entity with responsibility
585 to review and approve the feasibility of fire protection and suppression services for the subject
586 property.
587 (12) "General plan" means a document that a municipality adopts that sets forth general
588 guidelines for proposed future development of the land within the municipality.
589 (13) "Identical plans" means building plans submitted to a municipality that are

590 substantially identical to building plans that were previously submitted to and reviewed and
591 approved by the municipality and describe a building that is:
592 (a) located on land zoned the same as the land on which the building described in the
593 previously approved plans is located; and
594 (b) subject to the same geological and meteorological conditions and the same law as
595 the building described in the previously approved plans.
596 (14) "Land use application" means an application required by a municipality's land use
597 ordinance.
598 (15) "Land use authority" means a person, board, commission, agency, or other body
599 designated by the local legislative body to act upon a land use application.
600 (16) "Land use ordinance" means a planning, zoning, development, or subdivision
601 ordinance of the municipality, but does not include the general plan.
602 (17) "Land use permit" means a permit issued by a land use authority.
603 (18) "Legislative body" means the municipal council.
604 (19) "Local district" means an entity under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
605 Government Entities - Local Districts, and any other governmental or quasi-governmental entity
606 that is not a county, municipality, school district, or unit of the state.
607 (20) "Lot line adjustment" means the relocation of the property boundary line in a
608 subdivision between two adjoining lots with the consent of the owners of record.
609 (21) "Moderate income housing" means housing occupied or reserved for occupancy by
610 households with a gross household income equal to or less than 80% of the median gross
611 income for households of the same size in the county in which the city is located.
612 (22) "Nominal fee" means a fee that reasonably reimburses a municipality only for time
613 spent and expenses incurred in:
614 (a) verifying that building plans are identical plans; and
615 (b) reviewing and approving those minor aspects of identical plans that differ from the
616 previously reviewed and approved building plans.
617 (23) "Noncomplying structure" means a structure that:

618 (a) legally existed before its current land use designation; and
619 (b) because of one or more subsequent land use ordinance changes, does not conform
620 to the setback, height restrictions, or other regulations, excluding those regulations, which
621 govern the use of land.
622 (24) "Nonconforming use" means a use of land that:
623 (a) legally existed before its current land use designation;
624 (b) has been maintained continuously since the time the land use ordinance governing
625 the land changed; and
626 (c) because of one or more subsequent land use ordinance changes, does not conform
627 to the regulations that now govern the use of the land.
628 (25) "Official map" means a map drawn by municipal authorities and recorded in a
629 county recorder's office that:
630 (a) shows actual and proposed rights-of-way, centerline alignments, and setbacks for
631 highways and other transportation facilities;
632 (b) provides a basis for restricting development in designated rights-of-way or between
633 designated setbacks to allow the government authorities time to purchase or otherwise reserve
634 the land; and
635 (c) has been adopted as an element of the municipality's general plan.
636 (26) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association,
637 trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity.
638 (27) "Plan for moderate income housing" means a written document adopted by a city
639 legislative body that includes:
640 (a) an estimate of the existing supply of moderate income housing located within the
641 city;
642 (b) an estimate of the need for moderate income housing in the city for the next five
643 years as revised biennially;
644 (c) a survey of total residential land use;
645 (d) an evaluation of how existing land uses and zones affect opportunities for moderate

646 income housing; and
647 (e) a description of the city's program to encourage an adequate supply of moderate
648 income housing.
649 (28) "Plat" means a map or other graphical representation of lands being laid out and
650 prepared in accordance with Section 10-9a-603 , 17-23-17 , or 57-8-13 .
651 (29) "Public hearing" means a hearing at which members of the public are provided a
652 reasonable opportunity to comment on the subject of the hearing.
653 (30) "Public meeting" means a meeting that is required to be open to the public under
654 Title 52, Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act.
655 (31) "Record of survey map" means a map of a survey of land prepared in accordance
656 with Section 17-23-17 .
657 (32) "Receiving zone" means an area of a municipality that the municipality's land use
658 authority designates as an area in which an owner of land may receive transferrable development
659 rights.
660 (33) "Residential facility for elderly persons" means a single-family or multiple-family
661 dwelling unit that meets the requirements of Section 10-9a-516 , but does not include a health
662 care facility as defined by Section 26-21-2 .
663 (34) "Residential facility for persons with a disability" means a residence:
664 (a) in which more than one person with a disability resides; and
665 (b) (i) is licensed or certified by the Department of Human Services under Title 62A,
666 Chapter 2, Licensure of Programs and Facilities; or
667 (ii) is licensed or certified by the Department of Health under Title 26, Chapter 21,
668 Health Care Facility Licensing and Inspection Act.
669 (35) "Sanitary sewer authority" means the department, agency, or public entity with
670 responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of sanitary sewer services or onsite
671 wastewater systems.
672 (36) "Sending zone" means an area of a municipality that the municipality's land use
673 authority designates as an area from which an owner of land may transfer transferrable

674 development rights to an owner of land in a receiving zone.
675 (37) "Specified public utility" means an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or
676 telephone corporation, as those terms are defined in Section 54-2-1 .
677 (38) "Street" means a public right-of-way, including a highway, avenue, boulevard,
678 parkway, road, lane, walk, alley, viaduct, subway, tunnel, bridge, public easement, or other way.
679 (39) (a) "Subdivision" means any land that is divided, resubdivided or proposed to be
680 divided into two or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots, or other division of land for the
681 purpose, whether immediate or future, for offer, sale, lease, or development either on the
682 installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms, and conditions.
683 (b) "Subdivision" includes:
684 (i) the division or development of land whether by deed, metes and bounds description,
685 devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument; and
686 (ii) except as provided in Subsection (39)(c), divisions of land for residential and
687 nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and
688 industrial purposes.
689 (c) "Subdivision" does not include:
690 (i) a bona fide division or partition of agricultural land for the purpose of joining one of
691 the resulting separate parcels to a contiguous parcel of unsubdivided agricultural land, if neither
692 the resulting combined parcel nor the parcel remaining from the division or partition violates an
693 applicable land use ordinance;
694 (ii) a recorded agreement between owners of adjoining unsubdivided properties
695 adjusting their mutual boundary if:
696 (A) no new lot is created; and
697 (B) the adjustment does not violate applicable land use ordinances;
698 (iii) a recorded document, executed by the owner of record:
699 (A) revising the legal description of more than one contiguous unsubdivided parcel of
700 property into one legal description encompassing all such parcels of property; or
701 (B) joining a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has not

702 been subdivided, if the joinder does not violate applicable land use ordinances; or
703 (iv) a recorded agreement between owners of adjoining subdivided properties adjusting
704 their mutual boundary if:
705 (A) no new dwelling lot or housing unit will result from the adjustment; and
706 (B) the adjustment will not violate any applicable land use ordinance.
707 (d) The joining of a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has
708 not been subdivided does not constitute a subdivision under this Subsection (39) as to the
709 unsubdivided parcel of property or subject the unsubdivided parcel to the municipality's
710 subdivision ordinance.
711 (40) "Transferrable development right" means the entitlement to develop land within a
712 sending zone that would vest according to the municipality's existing land use ordinances on the
713 date that a completed land use application is filed seeking the approval of development activity
714 on the land.
715 (41) "Unincorporated" means the area outside of the incorporated area of a city or
716 town.
717 (42) "Zoning map" means a map, adopted as part of a land use ordinance, that depicts
718 land use zones, overlays, or districts.
719 Section 9. Section 10-15-4 is amended to read:
720 10-15-4. Powers of legislative body of municipality.
721 The legislative body of the municipalities of this state shall have the power:
722 (1) to establish pedestrian malls;
723 (2) to prohibit, in whole or in part, vehicular traffic on a pedestrian mall;
724 (3) to pay from the general funds of the municipality, or from other available money, or
725 from the proceeds of assessments levied on land benefited by the establishment of a pedestrian
726 mall, the damages, if any, allowed or awarded to any property owner by reason of the
727 establishment of the pedestrian mall;
728 (4) to acquire, construct, and maintain on the municipality's streets which are
729 established as a pedestrian mall, improvements of any kind or nature necessary or convenient to

730 the operation of such streets as a pedestrian mall, included but not limited to paving, sidewalks,
731 curbs, gutters, sewers, drainage works, lighting facilities, fire protection facilities, flood
732 protection facilities, water distribution facilities, vehicular parking areas, retaining walls,
733 landscaping, tree planting, statuaries, fountains, decorative structures, benches, rest rooms, child
734 care facilities, display facilities, information booths, public assembly facilities, and other
735 structures, works or improvements necessary or convenient to serve members of the public
736 using such pedestrian malls, including the reconstruction or relocation of existing municipally
737 owned works, improvements, or facilities on such municipal streets; which foregoing changes or
738 any portions thereof, are referred to in this act as "improvements";
739 (5) to pay from the general funds of the municipality or other available moneys, or from
740 the proceeds of assessments levied on property benefited by any such improvements, or from
741 the proceeds of special improvement warrants or bonds, the whole or any portion of the costs of
742 acquisition, construction, and maintenance of such improvements in accordance with the
743 provisions of Title [17A] 11, Chapter [3, Part 3, Utah Municipal Improvement District] 42,
744 Assessment Area Act, relating to special improvement assessments; and
745 (6) to do any and all other acts or things necessary or convenient for the
746 accomplishment of the purposes of this [act] chapter.
747 Section 10. Section 10-15-6 is amended to read:
748 10-15-6. Public hearing -- Finance requirements.
749 The designation of any street as a "mall" shall be by ordinance passed and published
750 after full investigation and ample public hearing into the necessity and advisability of the
751 creation of a mall. The ordinance shall designate the manner in which the project is to be
752 financed, and, if financed by levy of special taxes or special improvement warrants or bonds,
753 shall be in accordance with the provisions of Title [17A] 11, Chapter [3, Part 3, Utah Municipal
754 Improvement District] 42, Assessment Area Act.
755 Section 11. Section 11-14-102 is amended to read:
756 11-14-102. Definitions.
757 For the purpose of this chapter:

758 (1) "Bond" means any bond authorized to be issued under this chapter, including
759 municipal bonds.
760 (2) "Election results" has the same meaning as defined in Section 20A-1-102 .
761 (3) "Governing body" means:
762 (a) for a county, city, or town, the legislative body of the county, city, or town;
763 (b) for a local district, the board of trustees of the local district;
764 (c) for a school district, the local board of education; or
765 (d) for a special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1,
766 Special Service District Act:
767 (i) the governing body of the county or municipality that created the special service
768 district, if no administrative control board has been established under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ]
769 17D-1-301 ; or
770 (ii) the administrative control board, if one has been established under Section
771 [ 17A-2-1326 ] 17D-1-301 and the power to issue bonds not payable from taxes has been
772 delegated to the administrative control board.
773 (4) "Local district" means a district operating under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
774 Government Entities - Local Districts.
775 (5) (a) "Local political subdivision" means a county, city, town, school district, local
776 district, or special service district.
777 (b) "Local political subdivision" does not include the state and its institutions.
778 Section 12. Section 11-17-3 is amended to read:
779 11-17-3. Powers of municipalities, counties, and state universities.
780 (1) Each municipality, county, and state university may:
781 (a) finance or acquire, whether by construction, purchase, devise, gift, exchange, or
782 lease, or any one or more of those methods, and construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain,
783 equip, and furnish or fund one or more projects, which shall be located within this state, and
784 which shall be located within, or partially within, the municipality or county or within the county
785 within which a state university is located, unless an agreement under the Interlocal Cooperation

786 Act has been entered into as authorized by Subsection (5), except that if a governing body finds,
787 by resolution, that the effects of international trade practices have been or will be adverse to
788 Utah manufacturers of industrial products and, therefore, it is desirable to finance a project in
789 order to maintain or enlarge domestic or foreign markets for Utah industrial products, a project
790 may consist of the financing on behalf of a user of the costs of acquiring industrial products
791 manufactured in, and which are to be exported from, the state;
792 (b) finance for, sell, lease, contract the management of, or otherwise dispose of to, any
793 person, firm, partnership, or corporation, either public or private, including without limitation
794 any person, firm, partnership, or corporation engaged in business for a profit, any or all of its
795 projects upon the terms and conditions as the governing body considers advisable and which do
796 not conflict with this chapter;
797 (c) issue revenue bonds for the purpose of defraying the cost of financing, acquiring,
798 constructing, reconstructing, improving, maintaining, equipping, furnishing, or funding any
799 project and secure the payment of the bonds as provided in this chapter, which revenue bonds
800 may be issued in one or more series or issues where considered advisable, and each series or
801 issue may contain different maturity dates, interest rates, priorities on securities available for
802 guaranteeing payment of them, and other differing terms and conditions considered necessary
803 and not in conflict with this chapter;
804 (d) (i) grant options to renew any lease with respect to any project and to buy any
805 project at a price the governing body considers desirable; and
806 (ii) sell and convey any real or personal property acquired under Subsection (1)(a) at
807 public or private sale, and make an order respecting the sale considered conducive to the best
808 interests of the municipality, county, or state university, the sale or conveyance to be subject to
809 the terms of any lease but to be free and clear of any other encumbrance;
810 (e) establish, acquire, develop, maintain, and operate industrial parks; and
811 (f) offer to the holders of its bonds issued pursuant to this chapter the right, where its
812 governing body considers it appropriate, to convert the bonds or some portion of the bond
813 obligation into an equity position in some or all of the assets developed with the proceeds of the

814 bond offering.
815 (2) An economic development or new venture investment fund shall be considered to be
816 located in the municipality or county where its headquarters is located or where any office of it
817 is located, as long as it is headquartered within the state. It need not make all of its investments
818 within the state [of Utah] or such county or municipality, so long as it locates within the state
819 [of Utah] or such county or municipality its headquarters where its actual investment decisions
820 and management functions occur and agrees to, and does, limit the aggregate amount of its
821 investments in companies located outside the state [of Utah] to an amount which in the
822 aggregate does not exceed the aggregate amount of investments made by institutions and funds
823 located outside the state [of Utah] in companies headquartered in Utah which the locally
824 managed fund has sponsored or in which it has invested and which it has brought to the
825 attention of investors outside the state [of Utah]. For purposes of enabling an offering of bonds
826 to fund such a fund, a certification of an executive managerial officer of the manager of said
827 fund of the intention to comply with this provision may be relied upon. Each fund shall at least
828 annually certify to the governmental offeror of such bonds its compliance with this provision.
829 (3) Before any municipality, county, or state university issues revenue bonds under this
830 chapter for the purpose of defraying the cost of acquiring, constructing, reconstructing,
831 improving, maintaining, equipping, or furnishing any industrial park project, the governing body
832 of the state university, county, or municipality shall adopt and establish a plan of development
833 for the tracts of land to constitute the industrial park and shall, by resolution, find that the
834 project for the establishment of the industrial park is well conceived and has a reasonable
835 prospect of success, that the project will tend to provide proper economic development of the
836 municipality or county and will encourage industry to locate within or near the municipality or
837 county or, in the case of state universities, will further, through industrial research and
838 development, the instructional progress of the state university. There may be included as a part
839 of any plan of development for any industrial park zoning regulations, restrictions on usage of
840 sites within the boundaries of the industrial park, minimum size of sites, parking and loading
841 regulations, and methods for the providing and furnishing of police and fire protection and for

842 the furnishing of other municipal or county services which are considered necessary in order to
843 provide for the maintenance of the public health and safety. If any water or sewerage facilities
844 are to be acquired as part of the development of the land for an industrial park under this
845 chapter, water and sewerage facilities may be acquired as part of the issue of bonds issued under
846 this chapter, through the issuance of bonds payable from water and sewer charges in the manner
847 as is now or as may hereafter be provided by law, in combination with an issue of refunding
848 bonds, in combination with an issue of bonds upon the consent of the holders of outstanding
849 bonds issued for the same purpose, in combination with bonds issued for the purposes of
850 financing water and sewer facilities which will not be a part of an industrial park, or in any
851 combination of the foregoing. Any municipality, county, or state university establishing an
852 industrial park may lease any land acquired and developed as part of an industrial park to one or
853 more lessees. The lessee may sublease all or a portion of the land so leased from the
854 municipality or county. Municipalities, counties, and state universities may sell or lease land in
855 connection with the establishment, acquisition, development, maintenance, and operation of an
856 industrial park project. Any such lease or sale of land shall be undertaken only after the
857 adoption by the governing body of a resolution authorizing the lease or sale of the land for
858 industrial park purposes.
859 (4) (a) No municipality, county, or state university may operate any project referred to
860 in this section, as a business or in any other manner except as the lessor or administrator of it,
861 nor may it acquire any such project, or any part of it, by condemnation. This prohibition does
862 not apply to projects involving research conducted, administered, or managed by a state
863 university.
864 (b) No municipality, county, or state university may, under this chapter, acquire or lease
865 projects, or issue revenue bonds for the purpose of defraying the cost of any project or part of
866 it, used for the generation, transmission, or distribution of electric energy beyond the project
867 site, or the production, transmission, or distribution of natural gas, except for any project
868 defined in Subsection 11-17-2 (8)(b) or (d).
869 (5) Each municipality, county, and state university may enter, either before or after the

870 bonds have been issued, into interlocal agreements under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal
871 Cooperation Act, with one or more municipalities, counties, state universities, or special service
872 districts created pursuant to Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service
873 District Act, in order to accomplish economies of scale or other cost savings and any other
874 additional purposes to be specified in the interlocal agreement, for the issuance of bonds under
875 this chapter on behalf of all of the signatories to the interlocal agreement by one of the
876 municipalities, counties, or state universities which is a signatory to the interlocal agreement for
877 the financing or acquisition of projects qualifying as a project under Subsection 11-17-2 (8). For
878 all purposes of Section 11-13-207 the signatory to the interlocal agreement designated as the
879 issuer of the bonds constitutes the administrator of the interlocal agreement.
880 (6) Subsection (4) to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing body of any state
881 university owning or desiring to own facilities or administer projects described in Subsection
882 11-17-2 (8) may:
883 (a) become a signatory to the interlocal agreement provided for in Subsection (5);
884 (b) enter into a separate security agreement with the issuer of the bonds, as provided in
885 Section 11-17-5 for the financing or acquisition of a project under Subsection 11-17-2 (8) to be
886 owned by the state university;
887 (c) enter into agreements to secure the obligations of the state university under a
888 security agreement entered into under Subsection (6)(b), or to provide liquidity for such
889 obligations including, without limitation, letter of credit agreements with banking institutions for
890 letters of credit or for standby letters of credit, reimbursement agreements with financial
891 institutions, line of credit agreements, standby bond purchase agreements, and to provide for
892 payment of fees, charges, and other amounts coming due under the agreements entered into
893 under the authority contained in this Subsection (6)(c);
894 (d) provide in security agreements entered into under Subsection (6)(b) and in
895 agreements entered into under Subsection (6)(c) that the obligations of the state university
896 under an agreement shall be special obligations payable solely from the revenues derived from
897 the operation or management of the project, owned by the state university and from net profits

898 from proprietary activities and any other revenues pledged other than appropriations by the
899 Utah Legislature, and the governing body of the state university shall pledge all or any part of
900 such revenues to the payment of its obligations under an agreement; and
901 (e) in order to secure the prompt payment of the obligations of the state university
902 under a security agreement entered into under Subsection (6)(b) or an agreement entered into
903 under Subsection (6)(c) and the proper application of the revenues pledged to them, covenant
904 and provide appropriate provisions in an agreement to the extent permitted and provided for
905 under Section 53B-21-102 .
906 (7) Subsection (4) to the contrary notwithstanding, the governing body of any
907 municipality, county, or special service district owning, desiring to own, or administering
908 projects or facilities described in Subsection 11-17-2 (8) may:
909 (a) become a signatory to the interlocal agreement provided for in Subsection (5);
910 (b) enter into a separate security agreement with the issuer of the bonds, as provided in
911 Section 11-17-5 , for the financing or acquisition of a project under Subsection 11-17-2 (8) to be
912 owned by the municipality, county, or special service district, as the case may be, except that no
913 municipality, county, or special service district may mortgage the facilities so financed or
914 acquired;
915 (c) enter into agreements to secure the obligations of the municipality, county, or
916 special service district, as the case may be, under a security agreement entered into under
917 Subsection (7)(b), or to provide liquidity for such obligations including, without limitation,
918 letter of credit agreements with banking institutions for letters of credit or for standby letters of
919 credit, reimbursement agreements with financial institutions, line of credit agreements, standby
920 bond purchase agreements, and to provide for payment of fees, charges, and other amounts
921 coming due under the agreements entered into under the authority contained in this Subsection
922 (7)(c);
923 (d) provide in security agreements entered into under Subsection (7)(b) and in
924 agreements entered into under Subsection (7)(c) that the obligations of the municipality, county,
925 or special service district, as the case may be, under an agreement shall be special obligations

926 payable solely from the revenues derived from the operation or management of the project,
927 owned by the municipality, county, or special service district, as the case may be, and the
928 governing body of the municipality, county, or special service district, as the case may be, shall
929 pledge all or any part of such revenues to the payment of its obligations under an agreement;
930 and
931 (e) in order to secure the prompt payment of obligations under a security agreement
932 entered into under Subsection (7)(b) or an agreement entered into under Subsection (7)(c) and
933 the proper application of the revenues pledged to them, covenant and provide appropriate
934 provisions in an agreement to the extent permitted and provided for with respect to revenue
935 obligations under Section 11-14-306 .
936 (8) In connection with the issuance of bonds under this chapter, a municipality, county,
937 or state university:
938 (a) may provide for the repurchase of bonds tendered by their owners and may enter
939 into an agreement to provide liquidity for such repurchases, including a letter of credit
940 agreement, line of credit agreement, standby bond purchase agreement, or other type of liquidity
941 agreement;
942 (b) may enter into remarketing, indexing, tender agent, or other agreements incident to
943 the financing of the project or the performance of the issuer's obligations relative to the bonds;
944 and
945 (c) may provide for payment of fees, charges, and other amounts coming due under the
946 agreements entered into pursuant to authority contained in Subsection (6).
947 Section 13. Section 11-27-2 is amended to read:
948 11-27-2. Definitions.
949 As used in this chapter:
950 (1) "Advance refunding bonds" means refunding bonds issued for the purpose of
951 refunding outstanding bonds in advance of their maturity.
952 (2) "Assessments" means a special tax levied against property within a special
953 improvement district to pay all or a portion of the costs of making improvements in the district.

954 (3) "Bond" means any revenue bond, general obligation bond, tax increment bond,
955 special improvement bond, local building authority bond, or refunding bond.
956 (4) "General obligation bond" means any bond, note, warrant, certificate of
957 indebtedness, or other obligation of a public body payable in whole or in part from revenues
958 derived from ad valorem taxes and that constitutes an indebtedness within the meaning of any
959 applicable constitutional or statutory debt limitation.
960 (5) "Governing body" means the council, commission, county legislative body, board of
961 directors, board of trustees, board of education, board of regents, or other legislative body of a
962 public body designated in this chapter that is vested with the legislative powers of the public
963 body, and, with respect to the state, the State Bonding Commission created by Section
964 63B-1-201 .
965 (6) "Government obligations" means:
966 (a) direct obligations of the United States of America, or other securities, the principal
967 of and interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America; or
968 (b) obligations of any state, territory, or possession of the United States, or of any of
969 the political subdivisions of any state, territory, or possession of the United States, or of the
970 District of Columbia described in Section 103(a), Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
971 (7) "Issuer" means the public body issuing any bond or bonds.
972 (8) "Public body" means the state or any agency, authority, instrumentality, or
973 institution of the state, or any municipal or quasi-municipal corporation, political subdivision,
974 agency, school district, local district, special service district, or other governmental entity now
975 or hereafter existing under the laws of the state.
976 (9) "Refunding bonds" means bonds issued under the authority of this chapter for the
977 purpose of refunding outstanding bonds.
978 (10) "Resolution" means a resolution of the governing body of a public body taking
979 formal action under this chapter.
980 (11) "Revenue bond" means any bond, note, warrant, certificate of indebtedness, or
981 other obligation for the payment of money issued by a public body or any predecessor of any

982 public body and that is payable from designated revenues not derived from ad valorem taxes or
983 from a special fund composed of revenues not derived from ad valorem taxes, but excluding all
984 of the following:
985 (a) any obligation constituting an indebtedness within the meaning of any applicable
986 constitutional or statutory debt limitation;
987 (b) any obligation issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes, where the entire issue
988 matures not later than one year from the date of the issue; and
989 (c) any special improvement bond.
990 (12) "Special improvement bond" means any bond, note, warrant, certificate of
991 indebtedness, or other obligation of a public body or any predecessor of any public body that is
992 payable from assessments levied on benefitted property and from any special improvement
993 guaranty fund.
994 (13) "Special improvement guaranty fund" means any special improvement guaranty
995 fund established under Title 10, Chapter 6, Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities; Title
996 [17A] 11, Chapter [3, Part 2, County Improvement Districts] 42, Assessment Area Act; or any
997 predecessor or similar statute.
998 (14) "Tax increment bond" means any bond, note, warrant, certificate of indebtedness,
999 or other obligation of a public body issued under authority of Title 17C, Limited Purpose Local
1000 Government Entities - Community Development and Renewal Agencies.
1001 Section 14. Section 11-32-2 is amended to read:
1002 11-32-2. Definitions.
1003 As used in this chapter:
1004 (1) "Assignment agreement" means the agreement, security agreement, indenture, or
1005 other documentation by which the county transfers the delinquent tax receivables to the
1006 authority in consideration of the amounts paid by the authority under the assignment agreement,
1007 as provided in this chapter.
1008 (2) "Bonds" means any bonds, notes, or other evidence of indebtedness of the financing
1009 authority issued under this chapter.

1010 (3) "Delinquent tax receivables" means those ad valorem tangible property taxes levied
1011 within any county, for any year, which remain unpaid and owing the participant members within
1012 the county, as of January 15 of the following year, plus any interest and penalties accruing or
1013 assessed to them.
1014 (4) "Financing authority" or "authority" means a nonprofit corporation organized under
1015 this chapter by a county on behalf of the participant members within the county as the financing
1016 authority for the participant members solely for the purpose of financing the assignment of the
1017 delinquent tax receivables of the participant members for which it was created.
1018 (5) "Governing body" means the council, commission, county legislative body, board of
1019 education, board of trustees, or any other governing entity of a public body in which the
1020 legislative powers of the public body are vested.
1021 (6) "Participant members" means those public bodies, including the county, the
1022 governing bodies of which approve the creation of an authority as provided in Section 11-32-3
1023 and on whose behalf the authority acts.
1024 (7) "Public body" means any city, town, county, school district, special service district,
1025 [water and sewer improvement] local district, [redevelopment] community development and
1026 renewal agency, [parking and business improvement district, fire protection district, special
1027 service area, metropolitan water district, water conservancy district,] or any other entity entitled
1028 to receive ad valorem property taxes, existing under the laws of the state [of Utah].
1029 Section 15. Section 11-36-102 is amended to read:
1030 11-36-102. Definitions.
1031 As used in this chapter:
1032 (1) "Building permit fee" means the fees charged to enforce the uniform codes adopted
1033 pursuant to Title 58, Chapter 56, Utah Uniform Building Standards Act, that are not greater
1034 than the fees indicated in the appendix to the International Building Code.
1035 (2) "Capital facilities plan" means the plan required by Section 11-36-201 .
1036 (3) "Development activity" means any construction or expansion of a building,
1037 structure, or use, any change in use of a building or structure, or any changes in the use of land

1038 that creates additional demand and need for public facilities.
1039 (4) "Development approval" means any written authorization from a local political
1040 subdivision that authorizes the commencement of development activity.
1041 (5) "Enactment" means:
1042 (a) a municipal ordinance, for municipalities;
1043 (b) a county ordinance, for counties; and
1044 (c) a governing board resolution, for local districts or special service districts.
1045 (6) "Hookup fees" means reasonable fees, not in excess of the approximate average
1046 costs to the political subdivision, for services provided for and directly attributable to the
1047 connection to utility services, including gas, water, sewer, power, or other municipal, county,
1048 local district, or special service district utility services.
1049 (7) (a) "Impact fee" means a payment of money imposed upon development activity as
1050 a condition of development approval.
1051 (b) "Impact fee" does not mean a tax, a special assessment, a building permit fee, a
1052 hookup fee, a fee for project improvements, or other reasonable permit or application fee.
1053 (8) (a) "Local political subdivision" means a county, a municipality, a local district
1054 under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or a special
1055 service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District
1056 Act.
1057 (b) "Local political subdivision" does not mean school districts, whose impact fee
1058 activity is governed by Section 53A-20-100.5 .
1059 (9) "Private entity" means an entity with private ownership that provides culinary water
1060 that is required to be used as a condition of development.
1061 (10) (a) "Project improvements" means site improvements and facilities that are:
1062 (i) planned and designed to provide service for development resulting from a
1063 development activity; and
1064 (ii) necessary for the use and convenience of the occupants or users of development
1065 resulting from a development activity.

1066 (b) "Project improvements" does not mean system improvements.
1067 (11) "Proportionate share" means the cost of public facility improvements that are
1068 roughly proportionate and reasonably related to the service demands and needs of any
1069 development activity.
1070 (12) "Public facilities" means only the following capital facilities that have a life
1071 expectancy of ten or more years and are owned or operated by or on behalf of a local political
1072 subdivision or private entity:
1073 (a) water rights and water supply, treatment, and distribution facilities;
1074 (b) wastewater collection and treatment facilities;
1075 (c) storm water, drainage, and flood control facilities;
1076 (d) municipal power facilities;
1077 (e) roadway facilities;
1078 (f) parks, recreation facilities, open space, and trails; and
1079 (g) public safety facilities.
1080 (13) (a) "Public safety facility" means:
1081 (i) a building constructed or leased to house police, fire, or other public safety entities;
1082 or
1083 (ii) a fire suppression vehicle with a ladder reach of at least 75 feet, costing in excess of
1084 $1,250,000, that is necessary for fire suppression in commercial areas with one or more
1085 buildings at least five stories high.
1086 (b) "Public safety facility" does not mean a jail, prison, or other place of involuntary
1087 incarceration.
1088 (14) (a) "Roadway facilities" means streets or roads that have been designated on an
1089 officially adopted subdivision plat, roadway plan, or general plan of a political subdivision,
1090 together with all necessary appurtenances.
1091 (b) "Roadway facilities" includes associated improvements to federal or state roadways
1092 only when the associated improvements:
1093 (i) are necessitated by the new development; and

1094 (ii) are not funded by the state or federal government.
1095 (c) "Roadway facilities" does not mean federal or state roadways.
1096 (15) (a) "Service area" means a geographic area designated by a local political
1097 subdivision on the basis of sound planning or engineering principles in which a defined set of
1098 public facilities provide service within the area.
1099 (b) "Service area" may include the entire local political subdivision.
1100 (16) (a) "System improvements" means:
1101 (i) existing public facilities that are designed to provide services to service areas within
1102 the community at large; and
1103 (ii) future public facilities identified in a capital facilities plan that are intended to
1104 provide services to service areas within the community at large.
1105 (b) "System improvements" does not mean project improvements.
1106 Section 16. Section 11-36-201 is amended to read:
1107 11-36-201. Impact fees -- Analysis -- Capital facilities plan -- Notice of plan --
1108 Summary -- Exemptions.
1109 (1) (a) Each local political subdivision and private entity shall comply with the
1110 requirements of this chapter before establishing or modifying any impact fee.
1111 (b) A local political subdivision may not:
1112 (i) establish any new impact fees that are not authorized by this chapter; or
1113 (ii) impose or charge any other fees as a condition of development approval unless
1114 those fees are a reasonable charge for the service provided.
1115 (c) Notwithstanding any other requirements of this chapter, each local political
1116 subdivision shall ensure that each existing impact fee that is charged for any public facility not
1117 authorized by Subsection 11-36-102 (12) is repealed by July 1, 1995.
1118 (d) (i) Existing impact fees for public facilities authorized in Subsection 11-36-102 (12)
1119 that are charged by local political subdivisions need not comply with the requirements of this
1120 chapter until July 1, 1997.
1121 (ii) By July 1, 1997, each local political subdivision shall:

1122 (A) review any impact fees in existence as of the effective date of this act, and prepare
1123 and approve the analysis required by this section for each of those impact fees; and
1124 (B) ensure that the impact fees comply with the requirements of this chapter.
1125 (2) (a) Before imposing impact fees, each local political subdivision shall prepare a
1126 capital facilities plan.
1127 (b) (i) As used in this Subsection (2)(b):
1128 (A) (I) "Affected entity" means each county, municipality, local district under Title 17B,
1129 Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, special service district under Title
1130 [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, school district, interlocal
1131 cooperation entity established under Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, and specified
1132 public utility:
1133 (Aa) whose services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant
1134 modification because of the facilities proposed in the proposed capital facilities plan; or
1135 (Bb) that has filed with the local political subdivision or private entity a copy of the
1136 general or long-range plan of the county, municipality, local district, special service district,
1137 school district, interlocal cooperation entity, or specified public utility.
1138 (II) "Affected entity" does not include the local political subdivision or private entity
1139 that is required under this Subsection (2) to provide notice.
1140 (B) "Specified public utility" means an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or
1141 telephone corporation, as those terms are defined in Section 54-2-1 .
1142 (ii) Before preparing a capital facilities plan for facilities proposed on land located
1143 within a county of the first or second class, each local political subdivision and each private
1144 entity shall provide written notice, as provided in this Subsection (2)(b), of its intent to prepare
1145 a capital facilities plan.
1146 (iii) Each notice under Subsection (2)(b)(ii) shall:
1147 (A) indicate that the local political subdivision or private entity intends to prepare a
1148 capital facilities plan;
1149 (B) describe or provide a map of the geographic area where the proposed capital

1150 facilities will be located;
1151 (C) be sent to:
1152 (I) each county in whose unincorporated area and each municipality in whose
1153 boundaries is located the land on which the proposed facilities will be located;
1154 (II) each affected entity;
1155 (III) the Automated Geographic Reference Center created in Section 63F-1-506 ;
1156 (IV) the association of governments, established pursuant to an interlocal agreement
1157 under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, in which the facilities are proposed to
1158 be located; and
1159 (V) the state planning coordinator appointed under Section 63-38d-202 ; and
1160 (D) with respect to the notice to affected entities, invite the affected entities to provide
1161 information for the local political subdivision or private entity to consider in the process of
1162 preparing, adopting, and implementing a capital facilities plan concerning:
1163 (I) impacts that the facilities proposed in the capital facilities plan may have on the
1164 affected entity; and
1165 (II) facilities or uses of land that the affected entity is planning or considering that may
1166 conflict with the facilities proposed in the capital facilities plan.
1167 (c) The plan shall identify:
1168 (i) demands placed upon existing public facilities by new development activity; and
1169 (ii) the proposed means by which the local political subdivision will meet those
1170 demands.
1171 (d) Municipalities and counties need not prepare a separate capital facilities plan if the
1172 general plan required by Sections 10-9a-401 and 17-27a-401 contains the elements required by
1173 Subsection (2)(c).
1174 (e) (i) If a local political subdivision prepares an independent capital facilities plan rather
1175 than including a capital facilities element in the general plan, the local political subdivision shall,
1176 before adopting the capital facilities plan:
1177 (A) give public notice of the plan according to this Subsection (2)(e);

1178 (B) at least 14 days before the date of the public hearing:
1179 (I) make a copy of the plan, together with a summary designed to be understood by a
1180 lay person, available to the public; and
1181 (II) place a copy of the plan and summary in each public library within the local political
1182 subdivision; and
1183 (C) hold a public hearing to hear public comment on the plan.
1184 (ii) Municipalities shall comply with the notice and hearing requirements of, and, except
1185 as provided in Subsection 11-36-401 (4)(f), receive the protections of Sections 10-9a-205 and
1186 10-9a-801 and Subsection 10-9a-502 (2).
1187 (iii) Counties shall comply with the notice and hearing requirements of, and, except as
1188 provided in Subsection 11-36-401 (4)(f), receive the protections of Sections 17-27a-205 and
1189 17-27a-801 and Subsection 17-27a-502 (2).
1190 (iv) Local districts, special service districts, and private entities shall comply with the
1191 notice and hearing requirements of, and receive the protections of, Section 17B-1-111 .
1192 (v) Nothing contained in this Subsection (2)(e) or in the subsections referenced in
1193 Subsections (2)(e)(ii) and (iii) may be construed to require involvement by a planning
1194 commission in the capital facilities planning process.
1195 (f) (i) Local political subdivisions with a population or serving a population of less than
1196 5,000 as of the last federal census need not comply with the capital facilities plan requirements
1197 of this part, but shall ensure that the impact fees imposed by them are based upon a reasonable
1198 plan.
1199 (ii) Subsection (2)(f)(i) does not apply to private entities.
1200 (3) In preparing the plan, each local political subdivision shall generally consider all
1201 revenue sources, including impact fees, to finance the impacts on system improvements.
1202 (4) A local political subdivision may only impose impact fees on development activities
1203 when its plan for financing system improvements establishes that impact fees are necessary to
1204 achieve an equitable allocation to the costs borne in the past and to be borne in the future, in
1205 comparison to the benefits already received and yet to be received.

1206 (5) (a) Each local political subdivision imposing impact fees shall prepare a written
1207 analysis of each impact fee that:
1208 (i) identifies the impact on system improvements required by the development activity;
1209 (ii) demonstrates how those impacts on system improvements are reasonably related to
1210 the development activity;
1211 (iii) estimates the proportionate share of the costs of impacts on system improvements
1212 that are reasonably related to the new development activity; and
1213 (iv) based upon those factors and the requirements of this chapter, identifies how the
1214 impact fee was calculated.
1215 (b) In analyzing whether or not the proportionate share of the costs of public facilities
1216 are reasonably related to the new development activity, the local political subdivision shall
1217 identify, if applicable:
1218 (i) the cost of existing public facilities;
1219 (ii) the manner of financing existing public facilities, such as user charges, special
1220 assessments, bonded indebtedness, general taxes, or federal grants;
1221 (iii) the relative extent to which the newly developed properties and the other properties
1222 in the municipality have already contributed to the cost of existing public facilities, by such
1223 means as user charges, special assessments, or payment from the proceeds of general taxes;
1224 (iv) the relative extent to which the newly developed properties and the other properties
1225 in the municipality will contribute to the cost of existing public facilities in the future;
1226 (v) the extent to which the newly developed properties are entitled to a credit because
1227 the municipality is requiring their developers or owners, by contractual arrangement or
1228 otherwise, to provide common facilities, inside or outside the proposed development, that have
1229 been provided by the municipality and financed through general taxation or other means, apart
1230 from user charges, in other parts of the municipality;
1231 (vi) extraordinary costs, if any, in servicing the newly developed properties; and
1232 (vii) the time-price differential inherent in fair comparisons of amounts paid at different
1233 times.

1234 (c) Each local political subdivision that prepares a written analysis under this Subsection
1235 (5) on or after July 1, 2000 shall also prepare a summary of the written analysis, designed to be
1236 understood by a lay person.
1237 (6) Each local political subdivision that adopts an impact fee enactment under Section
1238 11-36-202 on or after July 1, 2000 shall, at least 14 days before adopting the enactment, submit
1239 to each public library within the local political subdivision:
1240 (a) a copy of the written analysis required by Subsection (5)(a); and
1241 (b) a copy of the summary required by Subsection (5)(c).
1242 (7) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to repeal or otherwise eliminate any
1243 impact fee in effect on the effective date of this chapter that is pledged as a source of revenues
1244 to pay bonded indebtedness that was incurred before the effective date of this chapter.
1245 Section 17. Section 11-39-101 is amended to read:
1246 11-39-101. Definitions.
1247 As used in this chapter:
1248 (1) "Bid limit" means:
1249 (a) for a building improvement:
1250 (i) for the year 2003, $40,000; and
1251 (ii) for each year after 2003, the amount of the bid limit for the previous year, plus an
1252 amount calculated by multiplying the amount of the bid limit for the previous year by the lesser
1253 of 3% or the actual percent change in the Consumer Price Index during the previous calendar
1254 year; and
1255 (b) for a public works project:
1256 (i) for the year 2003, $125,000; and
1257 (ii) for each year after 2003, the amount of the bid limit for the previous year, plus an
1258 amount calculated by multiplying the amount of the bid limit for the previous year by the lesser
1259 of 3% or the actual percent change in the Consumer Price Index during the previous calendar
1260 year.
1261 (2) "Building improvement":

1262 (a) means the construction or repair of a public building or structure; and
1263 (b) does not include construction or repair at an international airport.
1264 (3) "Consumer Price Index" means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers
1265 as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor.
1266 (4) "Design-build project":
1267 (a) means a building improvement or public works project costing over $250,000 with
1268 respect to which both the design and construction are provided for in a single contract with a
1269 contractor or combination of contractors capable of providing design-build services; and
1270 (b) does not include a building improvement or public works project:
1271 (i) that is undertaken by a local entity under contract with a construction manager that
1272 guarantees the contract price and is at risk for any amount over the contract price; and
1273 (ii) each component of which is competitively bid.
1274 (5) "Design-build services" means the engineering, architectural, and other services
1275 necessary to formulate and implement a design-build project, including its actual construction.
1276 (6) "Emergency repairs" means a building improvement or public works project
1277 undertaken on an expedited basis to:
1278 (a) eliminate an imminent risk of damage to or loss of public or private property;
1279 (b) remedy a condition that poses an immediate physical danger; or
1280 (c) reduce a substantial, imminent risk of interruption of an essential public service.
1281 (7) "Governing body" means:
1282 (a) for a county, city, or town, the legislative body of the county, city, or town;
1283 (b) for a local district, the board of trustees of the local district; and
1284 (c) for a special service district:
1285 (i) the legislative body of the county, city, or town that established the special service
1286 district, if no administrative control board has been appointed under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ]
1287 17D-1-301 ; or
1288 (ii) the administrative control board of the special service district, if an administrative
1289 control board has been appointed under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ] 17D-1-301 .

1290 (8) "Local district" has the same meaning as defined in Section 17B-1-102 .
1291 (9) "Local entity" means a county, city, town, local district, or special service district.
1292 (10) "Lowest responsive responsible bidder" means a prime contractor who:
1293 (a) has submitted a bid in compliance with the invitation to bid and within the
1294 requirements of the plans and specifications for the building improvement or public works
1295 project;
1296 (b) is the lowest bidder that satisfies the local entity's criteria relating to financial
1297 strength, past performance, integrity, reliability, and other factors that the local entity uses to
1298 assess the ability of a bidder to perform fully and in good faith the contract requirements;
1299 (c) has furnished a bid bond or equivalent in money as a condition to the award of a
1300 prime contract; and
1301 (d) furnishes a payment and performance bond as required by law.
1302 (11) "Procurement code" means the provisions of Title 63, Chapter 56, Utah
1303 Procurement Code.
1304 (12) "Public works project":
1305 (a) means the construction of:
1306 (i) a park or recreational facility; or
1307 (ii) a pipeline, culvert, dam, canal, or other system for water, sewage, storm water, or
1308 flood control; and
1309 (b) does not include:
1310 (i) the replacement or repair of existing infrastructure on private property;
1311 (ii) construction commenced before June 1, 2003; and
1312 (iii) construction or repair at an international airport.
1313 (13) "Special service district" [means a special service district under Title 17A, Chapter
1314 2, Part 13, Utah Special Service District Act] has the same meaning as defined in Section
1315 17D-1-102 .
1316 Section 18. Section 11-39-104 is amended to read:
1317 11-39-104. Exceptions.

1318 (1) The requirements of Section 11-39-103 do not apply to:
1319 (a) emergency repairs;
1320 (b) a building improvement or public works project if the estimated cost under Section
1321 11-39-102 is less than the bid limit; or
1322 (c) the conduct or management of any of the departments, business, or property of the
1323 local entity.
1324 (2) This section may not be construed to limit the application of Section 72-6-108 to an
1325 improvement project, as defined in Section 72-6-109 , that would otherwise be subject to
1326 Section 72-6-108 .
1327 (3) This part applies to a building improvement or public works project of a special
1328 service district only to the extent that the contract for the building improvement or public works
1329 project is in a class of contract designated under Section 17D-1-107 as subject to this part.
1330 Section 19. Section 11-40-101 is amended to read:
1331 11-40-101. Definitions.
1332 As used in this chapter:
1333 (1) "Applicant" means a person who seeks employment with a public water utility,
1334 either as an employee or as an independent contractor, and who, after employment, would, in
1335 the judgment of the public water utility, be in a position to affect the safety or security of the
1336 publicly owned treatment works or public water system or to affect the safety or well-being of
1337 patrons of the public water utility.
1338 (2) "Division" means the Criminal Investigation and Technical Services Division of the
1339 Department of Public Safety, established in Section 53-10-103 .
1340 (3) "Independent contractor":
1341 (a) means an engineer, contractor, consultant, or supplier who designs, constructs,
1342 operates, maintains, repairs, replaces, or provides water treatment or conveyance facilities or
1343 equipment, or related control or security facilities or equipment, to the public water utility; and
1344 (b) includes the employees and agents of the engineer, contractor, consultant, or
1345 supplier.

1346 (4) "Person seeking access" means a person who seeks access to a public water utility's
1347 public water system or publicly owned treatment works and who, after obtaining access, would,
1348 in the judgment of the public water utility, be in a position to affect the safety or security of the
1349 publicly owned treatment works or public water system or to affect the safety or well-being of
1350 patrons of the public water utility.
1351 (5) "Publicly owned treatment works" has the same meaning as defined in Section
1352 19-5-102 .
1353 (6) "Public water system" has the same meaning as defined in Section 19-4-102 .
1354 (7) "Public water utility" means a county, city, town, local district under Title 17B,
1355 Chapter 1, Provisions Applicable to All Local Districts, special service district under Title [17A]
1356 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, or other political subdivision of
1357 the state that operates publicly owned treatment works or a public water system.
1358 Section 20. Section 11-42-102 is amended to read:
1359 11-42-102. Definitions.
1360 (1) "Adequate protests" means timely filed, written protests under Section 11-42-203
1361 that represent at least 50% of the frontage, area, taxable value, fair market value, lots, number
1362 of connections, or equivalent residential units of the property proposed to be assessed,
1363 according to the same assessment method by which the assessment is proposed to be levied,
1364 after eliminating:
1365 (a) protests relating to:
1366 (i) property that has been deleted from a proposed assessment area; or
1367 (ii) an improvement that has been deleted from the proposed improvements to be
1368 provided to property within the proposed assessment area; and
1369 (b) protests that have been withdrawn under Subsection 11-42-203 (3).
1370 (2) "Assessment area" means an area, or, if more than one area is designated, the
1371 aggregate of all areas within a local entity's jurisdictional boundaries that is designated by a local
1372 entity under Part 2, Designating an Assessment Area, for the purpose of financing the costs of
1373 improvements, operation and maintenance, or economic promotion activities that benefit

1374 property within the area.
1375 (3) "Assessment bonds" means bonds that are:
1376 (a) issued under Section 11-42-605 ; and
1377 (b) payable in part or in whole from assessments levied in an assessment area,
1378 improvement revenues, and a guaranty fund or reserve fund.
1379 (4) "Assessment fund" means a special fund that a local entity establishes under Section
1380 11-42-412 .
1381 (5) "Assessment lien" means a lien on property within an assessment area that arises
1382 from the levy of an assessment, as provided in Section 11-42-501 .
1383 (6) "Assessment method" means the method by which an assessment is levied against
1384 property, whether by frontage, area, taxable value, fair market value, lot, number of
1385 connections, equivalent residential unit, or any combination of these methods.
1386 (7) "Assessment ordinance" means an ordinance adopted by a local entity under Section
1387 11-42-404 that levies an assessment on benefitted property within an assessment area.
1388 (8) "Assessment resolution" means a resolution adopted by a local entity under Section
1389 11-42-404 that levies an assessment on benefitted property within an assessment area.
1390 (9) "Benefitted property" means property within an assessment area that benefits from
1391 improvements, operation and maintenance, or economic promotion activities.
1392 (10) "Bond anticipation notes" means notes issued under Section 11-42-602 in
1393 anticipation of the issuance of assessment bonds.
1394 (11) "Bonds" means assessment bonds and refunding assessment bonds.
1395 (12) "Commercial area" means an area in which at least 75% of the property is devoted
1396 to the interchange of goods or commodities.
1397 (13) "Connection fee" means a fee charged by a local entity to pay for the costs of
1398 connecting property to a publicly owned sewer, water, gas, telecommunications, or electrical
1399 system, whether or not improvements are installed on the property.
1400 (14) "Contract price" means:
1401 (a) the cost of acquiring an improvement, if the improvement is acquired; or

1402 (b) the amount payable to one or more contractors for the design, engineering,
1403 inspection, and construction of an improvement.
1404 (15) "Designation ordinance" means an ordinance adopted by a local entity under
1405 Section 11-42-206 designating an assessment area.
1406 (16) "Designation resolution" means a resolution adopted by a local entity under
1407 Section 11-42-206 designating an assessment area.
1408 (17) "Economic promotion activities" means activities that promote economic growth
1409 in a commercial area of a local entity, including:
1410 (a) sponsoring festivals and markets;
1411 (b) promoting business investment or activities;
1412 (c) helping to coordinate public and private actions; and
1413 (d) developing and issuing publications designed to improve the economic well-being of
1414 the commercial area.
1415 (18) "Equivalent residential unit" means a dwelling, unit, or development that is equal
1416 to a single-family residence in terms of the nature of its use or impact on an improvement to be
1417 provided in the assessment area.
1418 (19) "Governing body" means:
1419 (a) for a county, city, or town, the legislative body of the county, city, or town;
1420 (b) for a local district, the board of trustees of the local district; and
1421 (c) for a special service district:
1422 (i) the legislative body of the county, city, or town that established the special service
1423 district, if no administrative control board has been appointed under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ]
1424 17D-1-301 ; or
1425 (ii) the administrative control board of the special service district, if an administrative
1426 control board has been appointed under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ] 17D-1-301 .
1427 (20) "Guaranty fund" means the fund established by a local entity under Section
1428 11-42-701 .
1429 (21) "Improved property" means property proposed to be assessed within an

1430 assessment area upon which a residential, commercial, or other building has been built.
1431 (22) "Improvement" means any publicly owned infrastructure, system, or other facility
1432 that:
1433 (a) a local entity is authorized to provide; or
1434 (b) the governing body of a local entity determines is necessary or convenient to enable
1435 the local entity to provide a service that the local entity is authorized to provide.
1436 (23) "Improvement revenues":
1437 (a) means charges, fees, impact fees, or other revenues that a local entity receives from
1438 improvements; and
1439 (b) does not include revenue from assessments.
1440 (24) "Incidental refunding costs" means any costs of issuing refunding assessment bonds
1441 and calling, retiring, or paying prior bonds, including:
1442 (a) legal and accounting fees;
1443 (b) charges of fiscal agents, escrow agents, and trustees;
1444 (c) underwriting discount costs, printing costs, the costs of giving notice;
1445 (d) any premium necessary in the calling or retiring of prior bonds;
1446 (e) fees to be paid to the local entity to issue the refunding assessment bonds and to
1447 refund the outstanding prior bonds;
1448 (f) any other costs that the governing body determines are necessary or desirable to
1449 incur in connection with the issuance of refunding assessment bonds; and
1450 (g) any interest on the prior bonds that is required to be paid in connection with the
1451 issuance of the refunding assessment bonds.
1452 (25) "Installment payment date" means the date on which an installment payment of an
1453 assessment is payable.
1454 (26) "Interim warrant" means a warrant issued by a local entity under Section
1455 11-42-601 .
1456 (27) "Jurisdictional boundaries" means:
1457 (a) for a county, the boundaries of the unincorporated area of the county; and

1458 (b) for each other local entity, the boundaries of the local entity.
1459 (28) "Local district" means a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
1460 Government Entities - Local Districts.
1461 (29) "Local entity" means a county, city, town, special service district, or local district.
1462 (30) "Local entity obligations" means assessment bonds, refunding assessment bonds,
1463 interim warrants, and bond anticipation notes issued by a local entity.
1464 (31) "Mailing address" means:
1465 (a) a property owner's last-known address using the name and address appearing on the
1466 last completed real property assessment roll of the county in which the property is located; and
1467 (b) if the property is improved property:
1468 (i) the property's street number; or
1469 (ii) the post office box, rural route number, or other mailing address of the property, if a
1470 street number has not been assigned.
1471 (32) "Net improvement revenues" means all improvement revenues that a local entity
1472 has received since the last installment payment date, less all amounts payable by the local entity
1473 from those improvement revenues for operation and maintenance costs.
1474 (33) "Operation and maintenance costs" means the costs that a local entity incurs in
1475 operating and maintaining improvements in an assessment area, including service charges,
1476 administrative costs, ongoing maintenance charges, and tariffs or other charges for electrical,
1477 water, gas, or other utility usage.
1478 (34) "Optional facilities":
1479 (a) means facilities in an assessment area that:
1480 (i) can be conveniently installed at the same time as improvements in the assessment
1481 area; and
1482 (ii) are requested by a property owner on whose property or for whose benefit the
1483 improvements are being installed; and
1484 (b) includes private driveways, irrigation ditches, and water turnouts.
1485 (35) "Overhead costs" means the actual costs incurred or the estimated costs to be

1486 incurred by a local entity in connection with an assessment area for appraisals, legal fees, filing
1487 fees, financial advisory charges, underwriting fees, placement fees, escrow, trustee, and paying
1488 agent fees, publishing and mailing costs, costs of levying an assessment, recording costs, and all
1489 other incidental costs.
1490 (36) "Prior bonds" means the assessment bonds that are refunded in part or in whole by
1491 refunding assessment bonds.
1492 (37) "Prior assessment ordinance" means the ordinance levying the assessments from
1493 which the prior bonds are payable.
1494 (38) "Prior assessment resolution" means the resolution levying the assessments from
1495 which the prior bonds are payable.
1496 (39) "Project engineer" means the surveyor or engineer employed by or private
1497 consulting engineer engaged by a local entity to perform the necessary engineering services for
1498 and to supervise the construction or installation of the improvements.
1499 (40) "Property" includes real property and any interest in real property, including water
1500 rights, leasehold rights, and personal property related to the property.
1501 (41) "Property price" means the price at which a local entity purchases or acquires by
1502 eminent domain property to make improvements in an assessment area.
1503 (42) "Provide" or "providing," with reference to an improvement, includes the
1504 acquisition, construction, reconstruction, renovation, maintenance, repair, operation, and
1505 expansion of an improvement.
1506 (43) "Public agency" means:
1507 (a) the state or any agency, department, or division of the state; and
1508 (b) a political subdivision of the state.
1509 (44) "Reduced payment obligation" means the full obligation of an owner of property
1510 within an assessment area to pay an assessment levied on the property after the assessment has
1511 been reduced because of the issuance of refunding assessment bonds, as provided in Section
1512 11-42-608 .
1513 (45) "Refunding assessment bonds" means assessment bonds that a local entity issues

1514 under Section 11-42-607 to refund, in part or in whole, assessment bonds.
1515 (46) "Reserve fund" means a fund established by a local entity under Section
1516 11-42-702 .
1517 (47) "Service" means water, sewer, garbage collection, library, recreation, or electric
1518 service, economic promotion activities, or any other service that a local entity is required or
1519 authorized to provide.
1520 (48) "Special service district" [means a special service district under Title 17A, Chapter
1521 2, Part 13, Utah Special Service District Act] has the same meaning as defined in Section
1522 17D-1-102 .
1523 (49) "Unimproved property" means property upon which no residential, commercial, or
1524 other building has been built.
1525 (50) "Voluntary assessment area" means an assessment area that contains only property
1526 whose owners have voluntarily consented to an assessment.
1527 Section 21. Section 11-43-102 is amended to read:
1528 11-43-102. Memorials by political subdivisions.
1529 (1) As used in this section:
1530 (a) "Political subdivision" means any county, city, town, or school district.
1531 (b) "Political subdivision" does not mean a local district under Title 17B, Limited
1532 Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or a special service district under Title
1533 [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act[, or a dependent district
1534 under Title 17A, Chapter 3, Dependent Districts].
1535 (2) A political subdivision may authorize the use or donation of the political
1536 subdivision's land for the purpose of maintaining, erecting, or contributing to the erection or
1537 maintenance of a memorial to commemorate those individuals who have:
1538 (a) participated in or have given their lives in any of the one or more wars or military
1539 conflicts in which the United States of America has been a participant; or
1540 (b) given their lives in association with public service on behalf of the state or the
1541 political subdivision, including firefighters, peace officers, highway patrol officers, or other

1542 public servants.
1543 (3) The use or donation of a political subdivision's land in relation to a memorial
1544 described in Subsection (2) may include:
1545 (a) using or appropriating public funds for the purchase, development, improvement, or
1546 maintenance of public land on which a memorial is located or established;
1547 (b) using or appropriating public funds for the erection, improvement, or maintenance
1548 of a memorial;
1549 (c) donating or selling public land for use in relation to a memorial; or
1550 (d) authorizing the use of a political subdivision's land for a memorial that is funded or
1551 maintained in part or in full by another public or private entity.
1552 (4) The political subdivision may specify the form, placement, and design of a memorial
1553 that is subject to this section.
1554 Section 22. Section 17-27a-103 is amended to read:
1555 17-27a-103. Definitions.
1556 As used in this chapter:
1557 (1) "Affected entity" means a county, municipality, local district, special service district
1558 under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, school
1559 district, interlocal cooperation entity established under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal
1560 Cooperation Act, specified property owner, property owners association, public utility, or the
1561 Utah Department of Transportation, if:
1562 (a) the entity's services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant
1563 modification because of an intended use of land;
1564 (b) the entity has filed with the county a copy of the entity's general or long-range plan;
1565 or
1566 (c) the entity has filed with the county a request for notice during the same calendar
1567 year and before the county provides notice to an affected entity in compliance with a
1568 requirement imposed under this chapter.
1569 (2) "Appeal authority" means the person, board, commission, agency, or other body

1570 designated by ordinance to decide an appeal of a decision of a land use application or a
1571 variance.
1572 (3) "Billboard" means a freestanding ground sign located on industrial, commercial, or
1573 residential property if the sign is designed or intended to direct attention to a business, product,
1574 or service that is not sold, offered, or existing on the property where the sign is located.
1575 (4) "Charter school" includes:
1576 (a) an operating charter school;
1577 (b) a charter school applicant that has its application approved by a chartering entity in
1578 accordance with Title 53A, Chapter 1a, Part 5, The Utah Charter Schools Act; and
1579 (c) an entity who is working on behalf of a charter school or approved charter applicant
1580 to develop or construct a charter school building.
1581 (5) "Chief executive officer" means the person or body that exercises the executive
1582 powers of the county.
1583 (6) "Conditional use" means a land use that, because of its unique characteristics or
1584 potential impact on the county, surrounding neighbors, or adjacent land uses, may not be
1585 compatible in some areas or may be compatible only if certain conditions are required that
1586 mitigate or eliminate the detrimental impacts.
1587 (7) "Constitutional taking" means a governmental action that results in a taking of
1588 private property so that compensation to the owner of the property is required by the:
1589 (a) Fifth or Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States; or
1590 (b) Utah Constitution Article I, Section 22.
1591 (8) "Culinary water authority" means the department, agency, or public entity with
1592 responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of the culinary water system and sources for
1593 the subject property.
1594 (9) (a) "Disability" means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one
1595 or more of a person's major life activities, including a person having a record of such an
1596 impairment or being regarded as having such an impairment.
1597 (b) "Disability" does not include current illegal use of, or addiction to, any federally

1598 controlled substance, as defined in Section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C.
1599 802.
1600 (10) "Elderly person" means a person who is 60 years old or older, who desires or
1601 needs to live with other elderly persons in a group setting, but who is capable of living
1602 independently.
1603 (11) "Fire authority" means the department, agency, or public entity with responsibility
1604 to review and approve the feasibility of fire protection and suppression services for the subject
1605 property.
1606 (12) "Gas corporation" has the same meaning as defined in Section 54-2-1 .
1607 (13) "General plan" means a document that a county adopts that sets forth general
1608 guidelines for proposed future development of the unincorporated land within the county.
1609 (14) "Identical plans" means building plans submitted to a county that are substantially
1610 identical building plans that were previously submitted to and reviewed and approved by the
1611 county and describe a building that is:
1612 (a) located on land zoned the same as the land on which the building described in the
1613 previously approved plans is located; and
1614 (b) subject to the same geological and meteorological conditions and the same law as
1615 the building described in the previously approved plans.
1616 (15) "Interstate pipeline company" means a person or entity engaged in natural gas
1617 transportation subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under
1618 the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 717 et seq.
1619 (16) "Intrastate pipeline company" means a person or entity engaged in natural gas
1620 transportation that is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory
1621 Commission under the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. Sec. 717 et seq.
1622 (17) "Land use application" means an application required by a county's land use
1623 ordinance.
1624 (18) "Land use authority" means a person, board, commission, agency, or other body
1625 designated by the local legislative body to act upon a land use application.

1626 (19) "Land use ordinance" means a planning, zoning, development, or subdivision
1627 ordinance of the county, but does not include the general plan.
1628 (20) "Land use permit" means a permit issued by a land use authority.
1629 (21) "Legislative body" means the county legislative body, or for a county that has
1630 adopted an alternative form of government, the body exercising legislative powers.
1631 (22) "Local district" means any entity under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
1632 Government Entities - Local Districts, and any other governmental or quasi-governmental entity
1633 that is not a county, municipality, school district, or unit of the state.
1634 (23) "Lot line adjustment" means the relocation of the property boundary line in a
1635 subdivision between two adjoining lots with the consent of the owners of record.
1636 (24) "Moderate income housing" means housing occupied or reserved for occupancy by
1637 households with a gross household income equal to or less than 80% of the median gross
1638 income for households of the same size in the county in which the housing is located.
1639 (25) "Nominal fee" means a fee that reasonably reimburses a county only for time spent
1640 and expenses incurred in:
1641 (a) verifying that building plans are identical plans; and
1642 (b) reviewing and approving those minor aspects of identical plans that differ from the
1643 previously reviewed and approved building plans.
1644 (26) "Noncomplying structure" means a structure that:
1645 (a) legally existed before its current land use designation; and
1646 (b) because of one or more subsequent land use ordinance changes, does not conform
1647 to the setback, height restrictions, or other regulations, excluding those regulations that govern
1648 the use of land.
1649 (27) "Nonconforming use" means a use of land that:
1650 (a) legally existed before its current land use designation;
1651 (b) has been maintained continuously since the time the land use ordinance regulation
1652 governing the land changed; and
1653 (c) because of one or more subsequent land use ordinance changes, does not conform

1654 to the regulations that now govern the use of the land.
1655 (28) "Official map" means a map drawn by county authorities and recorded in the
1656 county recorder's office that:
1657 (a) shows actual and proposed rights-of-way, centerline alignments, and setbacks for
1658 highways and other transportation facilities;
1659 (b) provides a basis for restricting development in designated rights-of-way or between
1660 designated setbacks to allow the government authorities time to purchase or otherwise reserve
1661 the land; and
1662 (c) has been adopted as an element of the county's general plan.
1663 (29) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association,
1664 trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity.
1665 (30) "Plan for moderate income housing" means a written document adopted by a
1666 county legislative body that includes:
1667 (a) an estimate of the existing supply of moderate income housing located within the
1668 county;
1669 (b) an estimate of the need for moderate income housing in the county for the next five
1670 years as revised biennially;
1671 (c) a survey of total residential land use;
1672 (d) an evaluation of how existing land uses and zones affect opportunities for moderate
1673 income housing; and
1674 (e) a description of the county's program to encourage an adequate supply of moderate
1675 income housing.
1676 (31) "Plat" means a map or other graphical representation of lands being laid out and
1677 prepared in accordance with Section 17-27a-603 , 17-23-17 , or 57-8-13 .
1678 (32) "Public hearing" means a hearing at which members of the public are provided a
1679 reasonable opportunity to comment on the subject of the hearing.
1680 (33) "Public meeting" means a meeting that is required to be open to the public under
1681 Title 52, Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act.

1682 (34) "Receiving zone" means an unincorporated area of a county that the county's land
1683 use authority designates as an area in which an owner of land may receive transferrable
1684 development rights.
1685 (35) "Record of survey map" means a map of a survey of land prepared in accordance
1686 with Section 17-23-17 .
1687 (36) "Residential facility for elderly persons" means a single-family or multiple-family
1688 dwelling unit that meets the requirements of Section 17-27a-515 , but does not include a health
1689 care facility as defined by Section 26-21-2 .
1690 (37) "Residential facility for persons with a disability" means a residence:
1691 (a) in which more than one person with a disability resides; and
1692 (b) (i) is licensed or certified by the Department of Human Services under Title 62A,
1693 Chapter 2, Licensure of Programs and Facilities; or
1694 (ii) is licensed or certified by the Department of Health under Title 26, Chapter 21,
1695 Health Care Facility Licensing and Inspection Act.
1696 (38) "Sanitary sewer authority" means the department, agency, or public entity with
1697 responsibility to review and approve the feasibility of sanitary sewer services or onsite
1698 wastewater systems.
1699 (39) "Sending zone" means an unincorporated area of a county that the county's land
1700 use authority designates as an area from which an owner of land may transfer transferrable
1701 development rights to an owner of land in a receiving zone.
1702 (40) "Specified public utility" means an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or
1703 telephone corporation, as those terms are defined in Section 54-2-1 .
1704 (41) "Street" means a public right-of-way, including a highway, avenue, boulevard,
1705 parkway, road, lane, walk, alley, viaduct, subway, tunnel, bridge, public easement, or other way.
1706 (42) (a) "Subdivision" means any land that is divided, resubdivided or proposed to be
1707 divided into two or more lots, parcels, sites, units, plots, or other division of land for the
1708 purpose, whether immediate or future, for offer, sale, lease, or development either on the
1709 installment plan or upon any and all other plans, terms, and conditions.

1710 (b) "Subdivision" includes:
1711 (i) the division or development of land whether by deed, metes and bounds description,
1712 devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument; and
1713 (ii) except as provided in Subsection (42)(c), divisions of land for residential and
1714 nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and
1715 industrial purposes.
1716 (c) "Subdivision" does not include:
1717 (i) a bona fide division or partition of agricultural land for agricultural purposes;
1718 (ii) a recorded agreement between owners of adjoining properties adjusting their mutual
1719 boundary if:
1720 (A) no new lot is created; and
1721 (B) the adjustment does not violate applicable land use ordinances;
1722 (iii) a recorded document, executed by the owner of record:
1723 (A) revising the legal description of more than one contiguous unsubdivided parcel of
1724 property into one legal description encompassing all such parcels of property; or
1725 (B) joining a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has not
1726 been subdivided, if the joinder does not violate applicable land use ordinances;
1727 (iv) a bona fide division or partition of land in a county other than a first class county
1728 for the purpose of siting, on one or more of the resulting separate parcels:
1729 (A) an unmanned facility appurtenant to a pipeline owned or operated by a gas
1730 corporation, interstate pipeline company, or intrastate pipeline company; or
1731 (B) an unmanned telecommunications, microwave, fiber optic, electrical, or other utility
1732 service regeneration, transformation, retransmission, or amplification facility; or
1733 (v) a recorded agreement between owners of adjoining subdivided properties adjusting
1734 their mutual boundary if:
1735 (A) no new dwelling lot or housing unit will result from the adjustment; and
1736 (B) the adjustment will not violate any applicable land use ordinance.
1737 (d) The joining of a subdivided parcel of property to another parcel of property that has

1738 not been subdivided does not constitute a subdivision under this Subsection (42) as to the
1739 unsubdivided parcel of property or subject the unsubdivided parcel to the county's subdivision
1740 ordinance.
1741 (43) "Township" means a contiguous, geographically defined portion of the
1742 unincorporated area of a county, established under this part or reconstituted or reinstated under
1743 Section 17-27a-306 , with planning and zoning functions as exercised through the township
1744 planning commission, as provided in this chapter, but with no legal or political identity separate
1745 from the county and no taxing authority, except that "township" means a former township under
1746 Chapter 308, Laws of Utah 1996 where the context so indicates.
1747 (44) "Transferrable development right" means the entitlement to develop land within a
1748 sending zone that would vest according to the county's existing land use ordinances on the date
1749 that a completed land use application is filed seeking the approval of development activity on
1750 the land.
1751 (45) "Unincorporated" means the area outside of the incorporated area of a
1752 municipality.
1753 (46) "Zoning map" means a map, adopted as part of a land use ordinance, that depicts
1754 land use zones, overlays, or districts.
1755 Section 23. Section 17-52-403 is amended to read:
1756 17-52-403. Adoption of optional plan -- Effect of adoption.
1757 (1) If a proposed optional plan is approved at an election held under Section 17-52-206 :
1758 (a) the proposed optional plan becomes effective according to its terms and, subject to
1759 Subsection 17-52-401 (1)(c), at the time specified in it, is public record open to inspection by the
1760 public, and is judicially noticeable by all courts;
1761 (b) the county clerk shall, within ten days of the canvass of the election, file with the
1762 lieutenant governor a copy of the optional plan, certified by the clerk to be a true and correct
1763 copy;
1764 (c) all public officers and employees shall cooperate fully in making the transition
1765 between forms of county government; and

1766 (d) the county legislative body may enact and enforce necessary ordinances to bring
1767 about an orderly transition to the new form of government, including any transfer of power,
1768 records, documents, properties, assets, funds, liabilities, or personnel that are consistent with
1769 the approved optional plan and necessary or convenient to place it into full effect.
1770 (2) Adoption of an optional plan changing only the form of county government without
1771 adopting one of the structural forms under Chapter 35b, Part 3, Structural Forms of County
1772 Government, does not alter or affect the boundaries, organization, powers, duties, or functions
1773 of any:
1774 (a) school district;
1775 (b) justice court;
1776 (c) local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local
1777 Districts;
1778 (d) special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special
1779 Service District Act;
1780 (e) city or town; or
1781 (f) entity created by an interlocal agreement under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal
1782 Cooperation Act.
1783 (3) After the adoption of an optional plan, the county remains vested with all powers
1784 and duties vested generally in counties by statute.
1785 Section 24. Section 17-50-324 is enacted to read:
1786 17-50-324. Preservation of historical areas and sites.
1787 A county may:
1788 (1) expend public funds to preserve, protect, or enhance an historical area or site;
1789 (2) acquire an historical area or site by direct purchase, contract, lease, trade, or gift;
1790 (3) obtain an easement or right-of-way across public or private property to ensure
1791 access or proper development of an historical area or site;
1792 (4) protect an historical area or site;
1793 (5) ensure proper development and utilization of land or an area adjacent to an

1794 historical area or site; and
1795 (6) enter into an agreement with a private individual for the right to purchase an
1796 historical area or site if and when the private individual elects to sell or dispose of the owner's
1797 property.
1798 Section 25. Section 17-53-311 is amended to read:
1799 17-53-311. Contracting for management, maintenance, operation, or construction
1800 of jails.
1801 (1) (a) With the approval of the sheriff, a county executive may contract with private
1802 contractors for management, maintenance, operation, and construction of county jails.
1803 (b) A county executive may include a provision in the contract that allows use of a
1804 building authority created under the provisions of Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [3, Part 9,
1805 Municipal] 2, Local Building [Authorities] Authority Act, to construct or acquire a jail facility.
1806 (c) A county executive may include a provision in the contract that requires that any jail
1807 facility meet any federal, state, or local standards for the construction of jails.
1808 (2) If a county executive contracts only for the management, maintenance, or operation
1809 of a jail, the county executive shall include provisions in the contract that:
1810 (a) require the private contractor to post a performance bond in the amount set by the
1811 county legislative body;
1812 (b) establish training standards that must be met by jail personnel;
1813 (c) require the private contractor to provide and fund training for jail personnel so that
1814 the personnel meet the standards established in the contract and any other federal, state, or local
1815 standards for the operation of jails and the treatment of jail prisoners;
1816 (d) require the private contractor to indemnify the county for errors, omissions,
1817 defalcations, and other activities committed by the private contractor that result in liability to the
1818 county;
1819 (e) require the private contractor to show evidence of liability insurance protecting the
1820 county and its officers, employees, and agents from liability arising from the construction,
1821 operation, or maintenance of the jail, in an amount not less than those specified in Title 63,

1822 Chapter 30d, Governmental Immunity Act of Utah;
1823 (f) require the private contractor to:
1824 (i) receive all prisoners committed to the jail by competent authority; and
1825 (ii) provide them with necessary food, clothing, and bedding in the manner prescribed
1826 by the governing body; and
1827 (g) prohibit the use of inmates by the private contractor for private business purposes of
1828 any kind.
1829 (3) A contractual provision requiring the private contractor to maintain liability
1830 insurance in an amount not less than the liability limits established by Title 63, Chapter 30d,
1831 Governmental Immunity Act of Utah, may not be construed as waiving the limitation on
1832 damages recoverable from a governmental entity or its employees established by that chapter.
1833 Section 26. Section 17B-1-102 is amended to read:
1834 17B-1-102. Definitions.
1835 As used in this title:
1836 (1) "Appointing authority" means the person or body authorized to make an
1837 appointment to the board of trustees.
1838 (2) "Basic local district":
1839 (a) means a local district that is not a [cemetery maintenance district, drainage district,
1840 fire protection district, improvement district, irrigation district, metropolitan water district,
1841 mosquito abatement district, public transit district, service area, or water conservancy]
1842 specialized local district; and
1843 (b) includes an entity that was, under the law in effect before April 30, 2007, created
1844 and operated as a local district, as defined under the law in effect before April 30, 2007.
1845 (3) "Bond" means:
1846 (a) a written obligation to repay borrowed money, whether denominated a bond, note,
1847 warrant, certificate of indebtedness, or otherwise; and
1848 (b) a lease agreement, installment purchase agreement, or other agreement that:
1849 (i) includes an obligation by the district to pay money; and

1850 (ii) the district's board of trustees, in its discretion, treats as a bond for purposes of Title
1851 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act, or Title 11, Chapter 27, Utah Refunding Bond
1852 Act.
1853 (4) "Cemetery maintenance district" means a local district that operates under and is
1854 subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 1, Cemetery Maintenance District
1855 Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a cemetery maintenance district under
1856 the law in effect before April 30, 2007.
1857 (5) "Drainage district" means a local district that operates under and is subject to the
1858 provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 2, Drainage District Act, including an entity that
1859 was created and operated as a drainage district under the law in effect before April 30, 2007.
1860 (6) "Facility" or "facilities" includes any structure, building, system, land, water right,
1861 water, or other real or personal property required to provide a service that a local district is
1862 authorized to provide, including any related or appurtenant easement or right-of-way,
1863 improvement, utility, landscaping, sidewalk, road, curb, gutter, equipment, or furnishing.
1864 (7) "Fire protection district" means a local district that operates under and is subject to
1865 the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 3, Fire Protection District Act, including an
1866 entity that was created and operated as a fire protection district under the law in effect before
1867 April 30, 2007.
1868 (8) "General obligation bond":
1869 (a) means a bond that is directly payable from and secured by ad valorem property taxes
1870 that are:
1871 (i) levied:
1872 (A) by the district that issues the bond; and
1873 (B) on taxable property within the district; and
1874 (ii) in excess of the ad valorem property taxes of the district for the current fiscal year;
1875 and
1876 (b) does not include:
1877 (i) a short-term bond;

1878 (ii) a tax and revenue anticipation bond; or
1879 (iii) a special assessment bond.
1880 (9) "Improvement district" means a local district that operates under and is subject to
1881 the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 4, Improvement District Act, including an
1882 entity that was created and operated as a county improvement district under the law in effect
1883 before April 30, 2007.
1884 (10) "Irrigation district" means a local district that operates under and is subject to the
1885 provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 5, Irrigation District Act, including an entity that
1886 was created and operated as an irrigation district under the law in effect before April 30, 2007.
1887 (11) "Local district" means a limited purpose local government entity, as described in
1888 Section 17B-1-103 , that operates under, is subject to, and has the powers set forth in:
1889 (a) this chapter; or
1890 (b) (i) this chapter; and
1891 (ii) (A) Chapter 2a, Part 1, Cemetery Maintenance District Act;
1892 (B) Chapter 2a, Part 2, Drainage District Act;
1893 (C) Chapter 2a, Part 3, Fire Protection District Act;
1894 (D) Chapter 2a, Part 4, Improvement District Act;
1895 (E) Chapter 2a, Part 5, Irrigation District Act;
1896 (F) Chapter 2a, Part 6, Metropolitan Water District Act;
1897 (G) Chapter 2a, Part 7, Mosquito Abatement District Act;
1898 (H) Chapter 2a, Part 8, Public Transit District Act;
1899 (I) Chapter 2a, Part 9, Service Area Act; or
1900 (J) Chapter 2a, Part 10, Water Conservancy District Act.
1901 (12) "Metropolitan water district" means a local district that operates under and is
1902 subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 6, Metropolitan Water District
1903 Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a metropolitan water district under the
1904 law in effect before April 30, 2007.
1905 (13) "Mosquito abatement district" means a local district that operates under and is

1906 subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 7, Mosquito Abatement District
1907 Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a mosquito abatement district under
1908 the law in effect before April 30, 2007.
1909 (14) "Municipal" means of or relating to a municipality.
1910 (15) "Municipality" means a city or town.
1911 (16) "Person" has the same meaning as defined in Section 68-3-12 .
1912 (17) "Political subdivision" means a county, city, town, local district under this title,
1913 special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2] 1, [Part 13, Utah] Special Service
1914 District Act, an entity created by interlocal cooperation agreement under Title 11, Chapter 13,
1915 Interlocal Cooperation Act, or any other governmental entity designated in statute as a political
1916 subdivision of the state.
1917 (18) "Private," with respect to real property, means not owned by the United States or
1918 any agency of the federal government, the state, a county, or a political subdivision.
1919 (19) "Public entity" means:
1920 (a) the United States or an agency of the United States;
1921 (b) the state or an agency of the state;
1922 (c) a political subdivision of the state or an agency of a political subdivision of the state;
1923 (d) another state or an agency of that state; or
1924 (e) a political subdivision of another state or an agency of that political subdivision.
1925 (20) "Public transit district" means a local district that operates under and is subject to
1926 the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 8, Public Transit District Act, including an
1927 entity that was created and operated as a public transit district under the law in effect before
1928 April 30, 2007.
1929 (21) "Revenue bond":
1930 (a) means a bond payable from designated taxes or other revenues other than the local
1931 district's ad valorem property taxes; and
1932 (b) does not include:
1933 (i) an obligation constituting an indebtedness within the meaning of an applicable

1934 constitutional or statutory debt limit;
1935 (ii) a tax and revenue anticipation bond; or
1936 (iii) a special assessment bond.
1937 (22) "Service area" means a local district that operates under and is subject to the
1938 provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 9, Service Area Act, including an entity that was
1939 created and operated as a county service area or a regional service area under the law in effect
1940 before April 30, 2007.
1941 (23) "Short-term bond" means a bond that is required to be repaid during the fiscal year
1942 in which the bond is issued.
1943 (24) "Special assessment" means an assessment levied against property to pay all or a
1944 portion of the costs of making improvements that benefit the property.
1945 (25) "Special assessment bond" means a bond payable from special assessments.
1946 (26) "Specialized local district" means a local district that is a cemetery maintenance
1947 district, a drainage district, a fire protection district, an improvement district, an irrigation
1948 district, a metropolitan water district, a mosquito abatement district, a public transit district, a
1949 service area, or a water conservancy district.
1950 [(26)] (27) "Taxable value" means the taxable value of property as computed from the
1951 most recent equalized assessment roll for county purposes.
1952 [(27)] (28) "Tax and revenue anticipation bond" means a bond:
1953 (a) issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes or other revenues or a combination
1954 of taxes and other revenues; and
1955 (b) that matures within the same fiscal year as the fiscal year in which the bond is
1956 issued.
1957 [(28)] (29) "Unincorporated" means not included within a municipality.
1958 [(29)] (30) "Water conservancy district" means a local district that operates under and
1959 is subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 10, Water Conservancy District
1960 Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a water conservancy district under the
1961 law in effect before April 30, 2007.

1962 [(30)] (31) "Works" includes a dam, reservoir, well, canal, conduit, pipeline, drain,
1963 tunnel, power plant, and any facility, improvement, or property necessary or convenient for
1964 supplying or treating water for any beneficial use, and for otherwise accomplishing the purposes
1965 of a local district.
1966 Section 27. Section 17B-1-103 is amended to read:
1967 17B-1-103. Local district status and powers.
1968 (1) A local district:
1969 (a) is:
1970 (i) a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession;
1971 (ii) a quasi-municipal corporation; and
1972 (iii) a political subdivision of the state; and
1973 (b) may sue and be sued.
1974 (2) A local district may:
1975 (a) acquire, by any lawful means, or lease any real or personal property necessary or
1976 convenient to the full exercise of the district's powers;
1977 (b) acquire, by any lawful means, any interest in real or personal property necessary or
1978 convenient to the full exercise of the district's powers;
1979 (c) transfer an interest in or dispose of any property or interest described in Subsections
1980 (2)(a) and (b);
1981 (d) acquire or construct works, facilities, and improvements necessary or convenient to
1982 the full exercise of the district's powers, and operate, control, maintain, and use those works,
1983 facilities, and improvements;
1984 (e) borrow money and incur indebtedness for any lawful district purpose;
1985 (f) issue bonds, including refunding bonds:
1986 (i) for any lawful district purpose; and
1987 (ii) as provided in and subject to Part [10] 11, Local District Bonds;
1988 (g) levy and collect property taxes:
1989 (i) for any lawful district purpose or expenditure, including to cover a deficit resulting

1990 from tax delinquencies in a preceding year; and
1991 (ii) as provided in and subject to Part 10, Local District Property Tax Levy;
1992 (h) as provided in Title 78, Chapter 34, Eminent Domain, acquire by eminent domain
1993 property necessary to the exercise of the district's powers;
1994 (i) invest money as provided in Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act;
1995 (j) (i) impose fees or other charges for commodities, services, or facilities provided by
1996 the district, to pay some or all of the district's costs of providing the commodities, services, and
1997 facilities, including the costs of:
1998 (A) maintaining and operating the district;
1999 (B) acquiring, purchasing, constructing, improving, or enlarging district facilities;
2000 (C) issuing bonds and paying debt service on district bonds; and
2001 (D) providing a reserve established by the board of trustees; and
2002 (ii) take action the board of trustees considers appropriate and adopt regulations to
2003 assure the collection of all fees and charges that the district imposes;
2004 (k) if applicable, charge and collect a fee to pay for the cost of connecting a customer's
2005 property to district facilities in order for the district to provide service to the property;
2006 (l) enter into a contract that the local district board of trustees considers necessary,
2007 convenient, or desirable to carry out the district's purposes, including a contract:
2008 (i) with the United States or any department or agency of the United States;
2009 (ii) to indemnify and save harmless; or
2010 (iii) to do any act to exercise district powers;
2011 (m) purchase supplies, equipment, and materials;
2012 (n) encumber district property upon terms and conditions that the board of trustees
2013 considers appropriate;
2014 (o) exercise other powers and perform other functions that are provided by law;
2015 (p) construct and maintain works and establish and maintain facilities, including works
2016 or facilities:
2017 (i) across or along any public street or highway, subject to Subsection (3) and if the

2018 district:
2019 (A) promptly restores the street or highway, as much as practicable, to its former state
2020 of usefulness; and
2021 (B) does not use the street or highway in a manner that completely or unnecessarily
2022 impairs the usefulness of it;
2023 (ii) in, upon, or over any vacant public lands that are or become the property of the
2024 state, including school and institutional trust lands, as defined in Section 53C-1-103 , if the
2025 director of the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, acting under Sections
2026 53C-1-102 and 53C-1-303 , consents; or
2027 (iii) across any stream of water or watercourse, subject to Section 73-3-29 ;
2028 (q) perform any act or exercise any power reasonably necessary for the efficient
2029 operation of the local district in carrying out its purposes;
2030 (r) designate an assessment area and levy an assessment on land within the assessment
2031 area, as provided in Title 11, Chapter 42, Assessment Area Act;
2032 (s) contract with another political subdivision of the state to allow the other political
2033 subdivision to use the district's surplus water or capacity [of] or have an ownership interest in
2034 the district's works or facilities, upon the terms and for the consideration, whether monetary or
2035 nonmonetary consideration or no consideration, that the district's board of trustees considers to
2036 be in the best interests of the district and the public; and
2037 (t) [contract with another political subdivision of the state or with a public or private
2038 owner of property on which the district has a right-of-way to allow the political subdivision or
2039 owner to use the surface of the land on which the district has a right-of-way,] upon the terms
2040 and for the consideration, whether monetary or nonmonetary consideration or no consideration,
2041 that the district's board of trustees considers to be in the best interests of the district and the
2042 public[.], agree:
2043 (i) with:
2044 (A) another political subdivision of the state; or
2045 (B) a public or private owner of property:

2046 (I) on which the district has a right-of-way; or
2047 (II) adjacent to which the district owns fee title to property; and
2048 (ii) to allow the use of property:
2049 (A) owned by the district; or
2050 (B) on which the district has a right-of-way.
2051 (3) With respect to a local district's use of a street or highway, as provided in
2052 Subsection (2)(p)(i):
2053 (a) the district shall comply with the reasonable rules and regulations of the
2054 governmental entity, whether state, county, or municipal, with jurisdiction over the street or
2055 highway, concerning:
2056 (i) an excavation and the refilling of an excavation;
2057 (ii) the relaying of pavement; and
2058 (iii) the protection of the public during a construction period; and
2059 (b) the governmental entity, whether state, county, or municipal, with jurisdiction over
2060 the street or highway:
2061 (i) may not require the district to pay a license or permit fee or file a bond; and
2062 (ii) may require the district to pay a reasonable inspection fee.
2063 (4) (a) A local district may:
2064 (i) acquire, lease, or construct and operate electrical generation, transmission, and
2065 distribution facilities, if:
2066 (A) the purpose of the facilities is to harness energy that results inherently from the
2067 district's:
2068 (I) operation of a project or facilities that the district is authorized to operate; or
2069 (II) providing a service that the district is authorized to provide;
2070 (B) the generation of electricity from the facilities is incidental to the primary operations
2071 of the district; and
2072 (C) operation of the facilities will not hinder or interfere with the primary operations of
2073 the district;

2074 (ii) (A) use electricity generated by the facilities; or
2075 (B) subject to Subsection (4)(b), sell electricity generated by the facilities to an electric
2076 utility or municipality with an existing system for distributing electricity.
2077 (b) A district may not act as a retail distributor or seller of electricity.
2078 (c) Revenue that a district receives from the sale of electricity from electrical generation
2079 facilities it owns or operates under this section may be used for any lawful district purpose,
2080 including the payment of bonds issued to pay some or all of the cost of acquiring or
2081 constructing the facilities.
2082 (5) A local district may adopt and, after adoption, alter a corporate seal.
2083 Section 28. Section 17B-1-202 is amended to read:
2084 17B-1-202. Local district may be created -- Services that may be provided --
2085 Limitations.
2086 (1) (a) A local district may be created as provided in this part to provide within its
2087 boundaries service consisting of:
2088 (i) the operation of an airport;
2089 (ii) the operation of a cemetery;
2090 (iii) fire protection, paramedic, and emergency services;
2091 (iv) garbage collection and disposal;
2092 (v) health care, including health department or hospital service;
2093 (vi) the operation of a library;
2094 (vii) abatement or control of mosquitos and other insects;
2095 (viii) the operation of parks or recreation facilities or services;
2096 (ix) the operation of a sewage system;
2097 (x) street lighting;
2098 (xi) the construction and maintenance of curb, gutter, and sidewalk;
2099 (xii) transportation, including public transit and providing streets and roads;
2100 (xiii) the operation of a system, or one or more components of a system, for the
2101 collection, storage, retention, control, conservation, treatment, supplying, distribution, or

2102 reclamation of water, including storm, flood, sewage, irrigation, and culinary water, whether the
2103 system is operated on a wholesale or retail level or both;
2104 (xiv) extended police protection; or
2105 (xv) subject to Subsection (1)(b), the underground installation of an electric utility line
2106 or the conversion to underground of an existing electric utility line.
2107 (b) Each local district that provides the service of the underground installation of an
2108 electric utility line or the conversion to underground of an existing electric utility line shall, in
2109 installing or converting the line, provide advance notice to and coordinate with the utility that
2110 owns the line.
2111 (2) For purposes of this section:
2112 (a) "Operation" means all activities involved in providing the indicated service including
2113 acquisition and ownership of property reasonably necessary to provide the indicated service and
2114 acquisition, construction, and maintenance of facilities and equipment reasonably necessary to
2115 provide the indicated service.
2116 (b) "System" means the aggregate of interrelated components that combine together to
2117 provide the indicated service including, for a sewage system, collection and treatment.
2118 (3) (a) A local district may not be created to provide and may not after its creation
2119 provide more than [two] four of the services listed in Subsection (1).
2120 (b) Subsection (3)(a) may not be construed to prohibit a local district from providing
2121 more than [two] four services if, before April 30, 2007, the local district was authorized to
2122 provide those services.
2123 (4) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (4)(b), a local district may not be created to
2124 provide and may not after its creation provide to an area the same service already being
2125 provided to that area by another political subdivision, unless the other political subdivision gives
2126 its written consent.
2127 (b) For purposes of Subsection (4)(a), a local district does not provide the same service
2128 as another political subdivision if it operates a component of a system that is different from a
2129 component operated by another political subdivision but within the same:

2130 (i) sewage system; or
2131 (ii) water system.
2132 (5) (a) Except for a local district in the creation of which an election is not required
2133 under Subsection 17B-1-214 (3)(c), the area of a local district may include all or part of the
2134 unincorporated area of one or more counties and all or part of one or more municipalities.
2135 (b) The area of a local district need not be contiguous.
2136 (6) For a local district created before May 5, 2008, the authority to provide fire
2137 protection service also includes the authority to provide:
2138 (a) paramedic service; and
2139 (b) emergency service, including hazardous materials response service.
2140 Section 29. Section 17B-1-203 is amended to read:
2141 17B-1-203. Process to initiate the creation of a local district -- Petition or
2142 resolution.
2143 (1) The process to create a local district may be initiated by:
2144 (a) subject to Section 17B-1-204 , a petition signed by the owners of private real
2145 property that:
2146 (i) is located within the proposed local district;
2147 (ii) covers at least 33% of the total private land area within the proposed local district
2148 as a whole and within each applicable area;
2149 (iii) is equal in value to at least 25% of the value of all private real property within the
2150 proposed local district as a whole and within each applicable area; and
2151 (iv) complies with the requirements of Subsection 17B-1-205 (1) and Section
2152 17B-1-208 ;
2153 (b) subject to Section 17B-1-204 , a petition that:
2154 (i) is signed by registered voters residing within the proposed local district as a whole
2155 and within each applicable area, equal in number to at least 33% of the number of votes cast in
2156 the proposed local district as a whole and in each applicable area, respectively, for the office of
2157 governor at the last regular general election prior to the filing of the petition; and

2158 (ii) complies with the requirements of Subsection 17B-1-205 (1) and Section
2159 17B-1-208 ;
2160 (c) a resolution proposing the creation of a local district, adopted by the legislative body
2161 of each county whose unincorporated area includes and each municipality whose boundaries
2162 include any of the proposed local district; or
2163 (d) a resolution proposing the creation of a local district, adopted by the board of
2164 trustees of an existing local district whose boundaries completely encompass the proposed local
2165 district, if:
2166 (i) the proposed local district is being created to provide one or more components of
2167 the same service that the initiating local district is authorized to provide; and
2168 (ii) the initiating local district is not providing to the area of the proposed local district
2169 any of the components that the proposed local district is being created to provide.
2170 (2) (a) Each resolution under Subsection (1)(c) or (d) shall:
2171 (i) describe the area proposed to be included in the proposed local district;
2172 (ii) be accompanied by a map that shows the boundaries of the proposed local district;
2173 (iii) describe the service proposed to be provided by the proposed local district;
2174 (iv) if the resolution proposes the creation of a specialized local district, specify the type
2175 of specialized local district proposed to be created;
2176 [(iv)] (v) explain the anticipated method of paying the costs of providing the proposed
2177 service;
2178 [(v)] (vi) state the estimated average financial impact on a household within the
2179 proposed local district;
2180 [(vi)] (vii) state the number of members that the board of trustees of the proposed local
2181 district will have, consistent with the requirements of Subsection 17B-1-302 (2);
2182 [(vii)] (viii) for a proposed basic local district:
2183 (A) state whether the members of the board of trustees will be elected or appointed or
2184 whether some members will be elected and some appointed, as provided in Section 17B-1-1402 ;
2185 (B) if one or more members will be elected, state the basis upon which each elected

2186 member will be elected; and
2187 (C) if applicable, explain how the election or appointment of board members will
2188 transition from one method to another based on stated milestones or events, as provided in
2189 Section 17B-1-1402 ;
2190 [(viii)] (ix) for a proposed improvement district whose remaining area members or
2191 county members, as those terms are defined in Section 17B-2a-404 , are to be elected, state that
2192 those members will be elected; and
2193 [(ix)] (x) for a proposed service area that is entirely within the unincorporated area of a
2194 single county, state whether the initial board of trustees will be:
2195 (A) the county legislative body;
2196 (B) appointed as provided in Section 17B-1-304 ; or
2197 (C) elected as provided in Section 17B-1-306 .
2198 (b) Each county or municipal legislative body adopting a resolution under Subsection
2199 (1)(c) shall, on or before the first public hearing under Section 17B-1-210 , mail or deliver a
2200 copy of the resolution to the responsible body if the county or municipal legislative body's
2201 resolution is one of multiple resolutions adopted by multiple county or municipal legislative
2202 bodies proposing the creation of the same local district.
2203 Section 30. Section 17B-1-205 is amended to read:
2204 17B-1-205. Petition and request requirements -- Withdrawal of signature.
2205 (1) Each petition and request shall:
2206 (a) indicate the typed or printed name and current residence address of each property
2207 owner or registered voter signing the petition;
2208 (b) if it is a property owner request or petition, indicate the address of the property as
2209 to which the owner is signing the request or petition;
2210 (c) describe the entire area of the proposed local district;
2211 (d) be accompanied by a map showing the boundaries of the entire proposed local
2212 district;
2213 (e) specify the service proposed to be provided by the proposed local district;

2214 (f) if the petition or request proposes the creation of a specialized local district, specify
2215 the type of specialized local district proposed to be created;
2216 [(f)] (g) for a proposed basic local district:
2217 (i) state whether the members of the board of trustees will be elected or appointed or
2218 whether some members will be elected and some appointed, as provided in Section 17B-1-1402 ;
2219 (ii) if one or more members will be elected, state the basis upon which each elected
2220 member will be elected; and
2221 (iii) if applicable, explain how the election or appointment of board members will
2222 transition from one method to another based on stated milestones or events, as provided in
2223 Section 17B-1-1402 ;
2224 [(g)] (h) for a proposed improvement district whose remaining area members or county
2225 members, as those terms are defined in Section 17B-2a-404 , are to be elected, state that those
2226 members will be elected; and
2227 [(h)] (i) for a proposed service area that is entirely within the unincorporated area of a
2228 single county, state whether the initial board of trustees will be:
2229 (i) the county legislative body;
2230 (ii) appointed as provided in Section 17B-1-304 ; or
2231 (iii) elected as provided in Section 17B-1-306 ; and
2232 [(i)] (j) designate up to five signers of the petition or request as sponsors, one of whom
2233 shall be designated as the contact sponsor, with the mailing address and telephone number of
2234 each.
2235 (2) A signer of a request or petition may withdraw or, once withdrawn, reinstate the
2236 signer's signature at any time before the filing of the request or petition by filing a written
2237 withdrawal or reinstatement with:
2238 (a) in the case of a request:
2239 (i) the clerk of the county or the clerk or recorder of the municipality in whose
2240 applicable area the signer's property is located, if the request is a property owner request; or
2241 (ii) the clerk of the county or the clerk or recorder of the municipality in whose

2242 applicable area the signer resides, if the request is a registered voter request; or
2243 (b) in the case of a petition, the responsible clerk.
2244 Section 31. Section 17B-1-215 is amended to read:
2245 17B-1-215. Notice to lieutenant governor -- Certificate of incorporation -- Local
2246 district incorporated as specialized local district or basic local district.
2247 (1) The responsible body shall file a notice with the lieutenant governor within ten days
2248 after:
2249 (a) the canvass of an election under Section 17B-1-214 , if a majority of those voting at
2250 the election within the proposed local district as a whole vote in favor of the creation of a local
2251 district;
2252 (b) certification of a petition as to which the election requirement of Subsection
2253 17B-1-214 (1) does not apply because of Subsection 17B-1-214 (3)(a) or (b); or
2254 (c) adoption of a resolution under Subsection 17B-1-213 (4) approving the creation of a
2255 local district for which an election was not required under Subsection 17B-1-214 (3)(c) or (d),
2256 by the legislative body of each county whose unincorporated area is included within and the
2257 legislative body of each municipality whose area is included within the proposed local district,
2258 or by the board of trustees of the initiating local district.
2259 (2) The area of each local district shall consist of:
2260 (a) if an election was held under Section 17B-1-214 , the area of the new local district as
2261 approved at the election;
2262 (b) if an election was not required because of Subsection 17B-1-214 (3)(a) or (b), the
2263 area of the proposed local district as described in the petition; or
2264 (c) if an election was not required because of Subsection 17B-1-214 (3)(c) or (d), the
2265 area of the new local district as described in the resolution adopted under Subsection
2266 17B-1-213 (4).
2267 (3) In each notice under Subsection (1) the responsible body shall:
2268 (a) if the notice follows an election under Section 17B-1-214 , certify the results of the
2269 election;

2270 (b) describe the boundaries of the new local district with an accurate map or plat
2271 showing the boundaries delineated in Subsection (2), prepared and certified by a licensed
2272 surveyor and filed with the county surveyor in accordance with Section 17-23-17 ; and
2273 (c) certify that all requirements for the creation of a local district have been complied
2274 with.
2275 (4) Upon the lieutenant governor's issuance of the certificate of creation under Section
2276 67-1a-6.5 , the local district is created and incorporated[.] as:
2277 (a) the type of specialized local district that was specified in the petition under
2278 Subsection 17B-1-203 (1)(a) or (b) or resolution under Subsection 17B-1-203 (1)(c) or (d), if
2279 the petition or resolution proposed the creation of a specialized local district; or
2280 (b) a basic local district, if the petition or resolution did not propose the creation of a
2281 specialized local district.
2282 Section 32. Section 17B-1-302 is amended to read:
2283 17B-1-302. Board member qualifications -- Number of board members.
2284 (1) (a) Each member of a local district board of trustees shall be:
2285 (i) a registered voter at the location of the member's residence; and
2286 (ii) except as provided in Subsections (1)(b) and (c), a resident within:
2287 (A) the boundaries of the local district; and
2288 (B) if applicable, the boundaries of the division of the local district from which the
2289 member is elected.
2290 (b) (i) As used in this Subsection (1)(b):
2291 (A) "Proportional number" means the number of members of a board of trustees that
2292 bears, as close as mathematically possible, the same proportion to all members of the board that
2293 the number of seasonally occupied homes bears to all residences within the district that receive
2294 service from the district.
2295 (B) "Seasonally occupied home" means a single-family residence:
2296 (I) that is located within the local district;
2297 (II) that receives service from the local district; and

2298 (III) whose owner:
2299 (Aa) does not reside permanently at the residence; and
2300 (Bb) may occupy the residence on a temporary or seasonal basis.
2301 (ii) If over 50% of the residences within a local district that receive service from the
2302 local district are seasonally occupied homes, the requirement under Subsection (1)(a)(ii) is
2303 replaced, for a proportional number of members of the board of trustees, with the requirement
2304 that the member be an owner of land, or an agent or officer of the owner of land, that:
2305 (A) receives service from the district; and
2306 (B) is located within:
2307 (I) the local district; and
2308 (II) if applicable, the division from which the member is elected.
2309 (c) For a board of trustees member in a basic local district that has within its boundaries
2310 fewer than one residential dwelling unit per ten acres of land, the requirement under Subsection
2311 (1)(a)(ii) is replaced with the requirement that the member be an owner of land within the local
2312 district that receives service from the district, or an agent or officer of the owner.
2313 (2) Except as otherwise provided by statute, the number of members of each board of
2314 trustees of a local district shall be an odd number that is no less than three [and no more than
2315 nine].
2316 (3) For a newly created local district, the number of members of the initial board of
2317 trustees shall be the number specified:
2318 (a) for a local district whose creation was initiated by a petition under Subsection
2319 17B-1-203 (1)(a) or (b), in the petition; or
2320 (b) for a local district whose creation was initiated by a resolution under Subsection
2321 17B-1-203 (1)(c) or (d), in the resolution.
2322 (4) (a) For an existing local district, the number of members of the board of trustees
2323 may be changed by a two-thirds vote of the board of trustees.
2324 (b) No change in the number of members of a board of trustees under Subsection (4)(a)
2325 may:

2326 (i) violate Subsection (2); or
2327 (ii) serve to shorten the term of any member of the board.
2328 Section 33. Section 17B-1-303 is amended to read:
2329 17B-1-303. Term of board of trustees members -- Oath of office -- Bond.
2330 (1) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(b), the term of each member of a board of
2331 trustees shall begin at noon on the [first Monday of] January 1 following the member's election
2332 or appointment.
2333 (b) The term of each member of the initial board of trustees of a newly created local
2334 district shall begin:
2335 (i) upon appointment, for an appointed member; and
2336 (ii) upon the member taking the oath of office after the canvass of the election at which
2337 the member is elected, for an elected member.
2338 (2) (a) (i) Subject to Subsection (2)(a)(ii), the term of each member of a board of
2339 trustees shall be four years, except that approximately half the members of the initial board of
2340 trustees, chosen by lot, shall serve a two-year term so that the term of approximately half the
2341 board members expires every two years.
2342 (ii) (A) If the terms of members of the initial board of trustees of a newly created local
2343 district do not begin on the first Monday of January because of application of Subsection (1)(b),
2344 the terms of those members shall be adjusted as necessary, subject to Subsection (2)(a)(ii)(B),
2345 to result in the terms of their successors complying with:
2346 (I) the requirement under Subsection (1)(a) for a term to begin on the first Monday of
2347 January; and
2348 (II) the requirement under Subsection (2)(a)(i) that terms be four years.
2349 (B) An adjustment under Subsection (2)(a)(ii)(A) may not add more than a year to or
2350 subtract more than a year from a member's term.
2351 (b) Each board of trustees member shall serve until a successor is duly elected or
2352 appointed and qualified, unless the member earlier is removed from office or resigns or
2353 otherwise leaves office.

2354 (c) If a member of a board of trustees no longer meets the qualifications of Subsection
2355 17B-1-302 (1):
2356 (i) the member's position is considered vacant, subject to Subsection (2)(c)(ii); and
2357 (ii) the member may continue to serve until a successor is duly elected or appointed and
2358 qualified.
2359 (3) (a) (i) Before entering upon the duties of office, each member of a board of trustees
2360 shall take the oath of office specified in Utah Constitution Article IV, Section 10.
2361 (ii) An oath of office may be administered by a judge, county clerk, notary public, or the
2362 local district clerk.
2363 (b) Each oath of office shall be filed with the clerk of the local district.
2364 [(b)] (c) The failure of a board of trustees member to take the oath required by
2365 Subsection (3)(a) does not invalidate any official act of that member.
2366 (4) A board of trustees member is not limited in the number of terms the member may
2367 serve.
2368 (5) Except as provided in Subsection (6), each midterm vacancy in a board of trustees
2369 position shall be filled as provided in Section 20A-1-512 .
2370 (6) (a) For purposes of this Subsection (6):
2371 (i) "Appointed official" means a person who:
2372 (A) is appointed as a member of a local district board of trustees by a county or
2373 municipality entitled to appoint a member to the board; and
2374 (B) holds an elected position with the appointing county or municipality.
2375 (ii) "Appointing entity" means the county or municipality that appointed the appointed
2376 official to the board of trustees.
2377 (b) The board of trustees shall declare a midterm vacancy for the board position held by
2378 an appointed official if:
2379 (i) during the appointed official's term on the board of trustees, the appointed official
2380 ceases to hold the elected position with the appointing entity; and
2381 (ii) the appointing entity submits a written request to the board to declare the vacancy.

2382 (c) Upon the board's declaring a midterm vacancy under Subsection (6)(b), the
2383 appointing entity shall appoint another person to fill the remaining unexpired term on the board
2384 of trustees.
2385 (7) (a) Each member of a board of trustees shall give a bond for the faithful
2386 performance of the member's duties, in the amount and with the sureties prescribed by the board
2387 of trustees.
2388 (b) The local district shall pay the cost of each bond required under Subsection (7)(a).
2389 Section 34. Section 17B-1-306 is amended to read:
2390 17B-1-306. Local district board -- Election procedures.
2391 (1) Except as provided in Subsection (11), each elected board member shall be selected
2392 as provided in this section.
2393 (2) (a) Each election of a local district board member shall be held:
2394 (i) [in conjunction with] at the same time as the municipal general election; and
2395 (ii) at polling places designated by the clerk of each county in which the local district is
2396 located.
2397 (b) (i) Subject to Subsections (4)(f) and (g), the number of polling places under
2398 Subsection (2)(a)(ii) in an election of board members of an irrigation district shall be one polling
2399 place per division of the district, designated by the district board.
2400 (ii) Each polling place designated by an irrigation district board under Subsection
2401 (2)(b)(i) shall coincide with a polling place designated by the county clerk under Subsection
2402 (2)(a)(ii).
2403 (3) (a) The clerk of each local district with a board member position to be filled at the
2404 next municipal general election shall provide notice of:
2405 (i) each elective position of the local district to be filled at the next municipal general
2406 election;
2407 (ii) the constitutional and statutory qualifications for each position; and
2408 (iii) the dates and times for filing a declaration of candidacy.
2409 (b) The notice required under Subsection (3)(a) shall be:

2410 (i) posted in at least five public places within the local district at least ten days before
2411 the first day for filing a declaration of candidacy; or
2412 (ii) published in a newspaper of general circulation within the local district at least three
2413 but no more than ten days before the first day for filing a declaration of candidacy.
2414 (4) (a) To become a candidate for an elective local district board position, the
2415 prospective candidate shall file a declaration of candidacy in person with the local district,
2416 during office hours and not later than 5 p.m. between July 15 and August 15 of any
2417 odd-numbered year.
2418 (b) When August 15 is a Saturday or Sunday, the filing time shall be extended until 5
2419 p.m. on the following Monday.
2420 (c) (i) Before the filing officer may accept any declaration of candidacy, the filing officer
2421 shall:
2422 (A) read to the prospective candidate the constitutional and statutory qualification
2423 requirements for the office that the candidate is seeking; and
2424 (B) require the candidate to state whether or not the candidate meets those
2425 requirements.
2426 (ii) If the prospective candidate does not meet the qualification requirements for the
2427 office, the filing officer may not accept the declaration of candidacy.
2428 (iii) If it appears that the prospective candidate meets the requirements of candidacy,
2429 the filing officer shall accept the declaration of candidacy.
2430 (d) The declaration of candidacy shall substantially comply with the following form:
2431 "I, (print name) ____________, being first duly sworn, say that I reside at (Street)
2432 ____________, City of ________________, County of ________________, State of Utah,
2433 (Zip Code) ______, (Telephone Number, if any)____________; that I meet the qualifications
2434 for the office of board of trustees member for _______________________ (state the name of
2435 the local district); that I am a candidate for that office to be voted upon at the November
2436 municipal general election to be held on Tuesday, the ______ day of November, ____, and I
2437 hereby request that my name be printed upon the official ballot for that election.

2438 (Signed) _________________________________________
2439 Subscribed and sworn to (or affirmed) before me by ____________ on this ______ day
2440 of ____________, ____.
2441 (Signed) ________________________
2442 (Clerk or Notary Public)"
2443 (e) Each person wishing to become a valid write-in candidate for an elective local
2444 district board position is governed by Section 20A-9-601 .
2445 (f) If at least one person does not file a declaration of candidacy as required by this
2446 section, a person shall be appointed to fill that board position by following the procedures and
2447 requirements for appointment established in Section 20A-1-512 .
2448 (g) If only one candidate files a declaration of candidacy for a position on the board of
2449 an irrigation district, the board need not hold an election for that position and may appoint that
2450 candidate to the board.
2451 (5) There shall be no primary election.
2452 (6) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (6)(c), the local district clerk shall certify the
2453 candidate names to the clerk of each county in which the local district is located no later than
2454 August 20 of the municipal election year.
2455 (b) (i) Except as provided in Subsection (6)(c), the clerk of each county in which the
2456 local district is located shall coordinate the placement of the name of each candidate for local
2457 district office in the nonpartisan section of the municipal general election ballot with the
2458 municipal election clerk.
2459 (ii) If consolidation of the local district election ballot with the municipal general
2460 election ballot is not feasible, the county clerk shall provide for a separate local district election
2461 ballot to be administered by separate election judges at polling locations designated by the
2462 county clerk in consultation with the local district.
2463 (c) (i) Subsections (6)(a) and (b) do not apply to an election of a member of the board
2464 of an irrigation district established under Chapter 2a, Part 5, Irrigation District Act.
2465 (ii) (A) Subject to Subsection (6)(c)(ii)(B), the board of each irrigation district shall

2466 prescribe the form of the ballot for each board member election.
2467 (B) Each ballot for an election of an irrigation district board member shall be in a
2468 nonpartisan format.
2469 (7) (a) Each voter at an election for a board of trustees member of a local district shall:
2470 (i) be a registered voter within the district, except for an election of:
2471 (A) an irrigation district board of trustees member; or
2472 (B) a basic local district board of trustees member who is elected by property owners;
2473 and
2474 (ii) meet the requirements to vote established by the district.
2475 (b) Each voter may vote for as many candidates as there are offices to be filled.
2476 (c) The candidates who receive the highest number of votes are elected.
2477 (8) Except as otherwise provided by this section, the election of local district board
2478 members is governed by Title 20A, Election Code.
2479 (9) (a) A person elected to serve on a local district board shall serve a four-year term,
2480 beginning at noon on the January 1 after the person's election.
2481 (b) A person elected shall be sworn in as soon as practical after January 1.
2482 (10) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (10)(b), each local district shall reimburse the
2483 county holding an election under this section for the costs of the election attributable to that
2484 local district.
2485 (b) Each irrigation district shall bear its own costs of each election it holds under this
2486 section.
2487 (11) This section does not apply to an improvement district that provides electric or gas
2488 service.
2489 (12) The provisions of Title 20A, Chapter 3, Part 3, Early Voting, do not apply to an
2490 election under this section.
2491 Section 35. Section 17B-1-306.5 , which is renumbered from Section 17B-2a-906 is
2492 renumbered and amended to read:
2493 [17B-2a-906]. 17B-1-306.5. Dividing a local district into divisions.

2494 (1) Subject to Subsection (2), the board of trustees of a [service area] local district may,
2495 upon a vote of two-thirds of the members of the board, divide the [service area] local district
2496 into divisions so that some or all of the members of the board of trustees may be elected by
2497 division rather than at large.
2498 (2) Before dividing a [service area] local district into divisions under Subsection (1) or
2499 before changing the boundaries of divisions already established, the board of trustees shall:
2500 (a) prepare a proposal that describes the boundaries of the proposed divisions; and
2501 (b) hold a public hearing at which any interested person may appear and speak for or
2502 against the proposal.
2503 (3) (a) The board of trustees shall review the division boundaries at least every ten
2504 years.
2505 (b) Except for changes in the divisions necessitated by annexations to or withdrawals
2506 from the [service area] local district, the boundaries of divisions established under Subsection
2507 (1) may not be changed more often than every five years.
2508 (c) Changes to the boundaries of divisions already established under Subsection (1) are
2509 not subject to the two-thirds vote requirement of Subsection (1).
2510 Section 36. Section 17B-1-312 is amended to read:
2511 17B-1-312. Training for board members.
2512 (1) Each member of a board of trustees of a local district, elected or appointed on or
2513 after May 3, 1999, should, within one year after taking office, complete the training described in
2514 Subsection (2).
2515 (2) In conjunction with the Utah Association of Special Districts, the state auditor shall:
2516 (a) develop a training curriculum for the members of local district boards; and
2517 (b) with the assistance of other state offices and departments the state auditor considers
2518 appropriate and at times and locations established by the state auditor, carry out the training of
2519 members of local district boards.
2520 (3) (a) A local district board of trustees may compensate each member of the board up
2521 to $100 per day for each day of training described in Subsection (2) that the member completes.

2522 (b) The per diem amount authorized under Subsection (3)(a) is in addition to all other
2523 amounts of compensation and expense reimbursement authorized under this chapter.
2524 (c) A board of trustees may not pay compensation under Subsection (3)(a) to any board
2525 member more than once [in any consecutive two-year period] per year.
2526 (4) The state auditor shall issue a certificate of completion to each board member that
2527 completes the training described in Subsection (2).
2528 Section 37. Section 17B-1-643 is amended to read:
2529 17B-1-643. Imposing or increasing a fee for service provided by local district.
2530 (1) (a) Before imposing a new fee or increasing an existing fee for a service provided by
2531 a local district, each local district board of trustees shall first hold a public hearing at which any
2532 interested person may speak for or against the proposal to impose a fee or to increase an
2533 existing fee.
2534 (b) Each public hearing under Subsection (1)(a) shall be held in the evening beginning
2535 no earlier than 6 p.m.
2536 (c) A public hearing required under this Subsection (1) may be combined with a public
2537 hearing on a tentative budget required under Section 17B-1-610 .
2538 (d) Except to the extent that this section imposes more stringent notice requirements,
2539 the local district board shall comply with Title 52, Chapter 4, Open and Public Meetings Act, in
2540 holding the public hearing under Subsection (1)(a).
2541 (2) (a) Each local district board shall give notice of a hearing under Subsection (1) as
2542 provided in Subsection (2)(b)(i) or (ii).
2543 (b) (i) (A) The notice required under Subsection (2)(a) shall be published in a
2544 newspaper or combination of newspapers of general circulation in the local district, if there is a
2545 newspaper or combination of newspapers of general circulation in the local district.
2546 (B) The notice shall be no less than 1/4 page in size and the type used shall be no
2547 smaller than 18 point, and surrounded by a 1/4-inch border.
2548 (C) The notice may not be placed in that portion of the newspaper where legal notices
2549 and classified advertisements appear.

2550 (D) It is legislative intent that, whenever possible, the advertisement appear in a
2551 newspaper that is published at least one day per week.
2552 (E) It is further the intent of the Legislature that the newspaper or combination of
2553 newspapers selected be of general interest and readership in the local district, and not of limited
2554 subject matter.
2555 (F) The notice shall be run once each week for the two weeks preceding the hearing.
2556 (G) The notice shall state that the local district board intends to impose or increase a fee
2557 for a service provided by the local district and will hold a public hearing on a certain day, time,
2558 and place fixed in the notice, which shall be not less than seven days after the day the first notice
2559 is published, for the purpose of hearing comments regarding the proposed imposition or
2560 increase of a fee and to explain the reasons for the proposed imposition or increase.
2561 (ii) (A) If there is no newspaper or combination of newspapers of general circulation in
2562 the local district, the local district board shall post at least one notice per 1,000 population
2563 within the local district, at places within the local district that are most likely to provide actual
2564 notice to residents within the local district.
2565 (B) Each notice under Subsection (2)(b)(ii)(A) shall comply with Subsection
2566 (2)(b)(i)(G).
2567 (c) (i) In lieu of providing notice under Subsection (2)(b), the local district board of
2568 trustees may give the notice required under Subsection (2)(a) by mailing the notice to those
2569 within the district who:
2570 (A) will be charged the fee for a district service, if the fee is being imposed for the first
2571 time; or
2572 (B) are being charged a fee, if the fee is proposed to be increased.
2573 (ii) Each notice under Subsection (2)(c)(i) shall comply with Subsection (2)(b)(i)(G).
2574 (iii) A notice under Subsection (2)(c)(i) may accompany a district bill for an existing
2575 fee.
2576 (d) If the hearing required under this section is combined with the public hearing
2577 required under Section 17B-1-610 , the notice requirement under this Subsection (2) is satisfied

2578 if a notice that meets the requirements of Subsection (2)(b)(i)(G) is combined with the notice
2579 required under Section 17B-1-609 .
2580 (e) Proof that notice was given as provided in Subsection (2)(b) or (c) is prima facie
2581 evidence that notice was properly given.
2582 (f) If no challenge is made to the notice given of a hearing required by Subsection (1)
2583 within 30 days after the date of the hearing, the notice is considered adequate and proper.
2584 (3) After holding a public hearing under Subsection (1), a local district board may:
2585 (a) impose the new fee or increase the existing fee as proposed;
2586 (b) adjust the amount of the proposed new fee or the increase of the existing fee and
2587 then impose the new fee or increase the existing fee as adjusted; or
2588 (c) decline to impose the new fee or increase the existing fee.
2589 (4) This section applies to each new fee imposed and each increase of an existing fee
2590 that occurs on or after July 1, 1998.
2591 (5) (a) This section does not apply to an impact fee.
2592 (b) The imposition or increase of an impact fee is governed by Title 11, Chapter 36,
2593 Impact Fees Act.
2594 Section 38. Section 17B-1-1002 is amended to read:
2595 17B-1-1002. Limit on local district property tax levy -- Exclusions.
2596 (1) The rate at which a local district levies a property tax for district operation and
2597 maintenance expenses on the taxable value of taxable property within the district may not
2598 exceed:
2599 (a) .0008, for a basic local district;
2600 (b) .0004, for a cemetery maintenance district;
2601 (c) .0004, for a drainage district;
2602 (d) .0008, for a fire protection district;
2603 (e) .0008, for an improvement district;
2604 (f) .0005, for a metropolitan water district;
2605 (g) .0004, for a mosquito abatement district;

2606 (h) .0004, for a public transit district;
2607 (i) (i) .0023, for a service area that:
2608 (A) is located in a county of the first or second class; and
2609 (B) provides fire protection, paramedic, and emergency services; or
2610 (ii) .0014, for each other service area; or
2611 (j) the rates provided in Section 17B-2a-1006 , for a water conservancy district.
2612 (2) Property taxes levied by a local district are excluded from the limit applicable to that
2613 district under Subsection (1) if the taxes are:
2614 (a) levied under Section 17B-1-1103 by a local district, other than a water conservancy
2615 district, to pay principal of and interest on general obligation bonds issued by the district;
2616 (b) levied to pay debt and interest owed to the United States; or
2617 (c) levied to pay assessments or other amounts due to a water users association or other
2618 public cooperative or private entity from which the district procures water.
2619 Section 39. Section 17B-1-1101 is amended to read:
2620 17B-1-1101. Provisions applicable to a local district's issuance of bonds.
2621 Subject to the provisions of this part:
2622 (1) each local district that issues bonds shall:
2623 (a) issue them as provided in, as applicable:
2624 (i) Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act; [and] or
2625 (ii) Title 11, Chapter 42, Assessment Area Act; and
2626 (b) receive the benefits of Title 11, Chapter 30, Utah Bond Validation Act; and
2627 (2) each local district that issues refunding bonds shall issue them as provided in Title
2628 11, Chapter 27, Utah Refunding Bond Act.
2629 Section 40. Section 17B-1-1103 is amended to read:
2630 17B-1-1103. Levy to pay for general obligation bonds.
2631 (1) (a) If a district has issued general obligation bonds, or expects to have debt service
2632 payments due on general obligation bonds during the current year, the district's board of
2633 trustees may make an annual levy of ad valorem property taxes in order to:

2634 (i) pay the principal of and interest on the general obligation bonds;
2635 (ii) establish a sinking fund for defaults and future debt service on the general obligation
2636 bonds; and
2637 (iii) establish a reserve to secure payment of the general obligation bonds.
2638 (b) A levy under Subsection (1)(a) is:
2639 (i) for a water conservancy district, subject to the limit stated in Section 17B-2a-1006 ;
2640 and
2641 (ii) for each other local district, without limitation as to rate or amount.
2642 (2) (a) Each district that levies a tax under Subsection (1) shall:
2643 (i) levy the tax as a separate and special levy for the specific purposes stated in
2644 Subsection (1); and
2645 (ii) apply the proceeds from the levy solely for the purpose of paying the principal of
2646 and interest on the general obligation bonds, even though the proceeds may be used to establish
2647 or replenish a sinking fund under Subsection (1)[(b)](a)(ii) or a reserve under Subsection
2648 (1)[(c)](a)(iii).
2649 (b) A levy under Subsection (2)(a) is not subject to a priority in favor of a district
2650 obligation in existence at the time the bonds were issued.
2651 Section 41. Section 17B-1-1104 is amended to read:
2652 17B-1-1104. Pledge of revenues to pay for bonds.
2653 Bonds may be payable from and secured by the pledge of all or any specified part of:
2654 (1) the revenues to be derived by the district from providing its services and from the
2655 operation of its facilities and other properties;
2656 (2) sales and use taxes, property taxes, and other taxes;
2657 (3) federal, state, or local grants; [and]
2658 (4) in the case of special assessment bonds, the special assessments pledged to repay the
2659 special assessment bonds; and
2660 [(4)] (5) other money legally available to the district.
2661 Section 42. Section 17B-2a-404 is amended to read:

2662 17B-2a-404. Improvement district board of trustees.
2663 (1) As used in this section:
2664 (a) "County district" means an improvement district that does not include within its
2665 boundaries any territory of a municipality.
2666 (b) "County member" means a member of a board of trustees of a county district.
2667 (c) "Electric district" means an improvement district that was created for the purpose of
2668 providing electric service.
2669 (d) "Included municipality" means a municipality whose boundaries are entirely
2670 contained within but do not coincide with the boundaries of an improvement district.
2671 (e) "Municipal district" means an improvement district whose boundaries coincide with
2672 the boundaries of a single municipality.
2673 (f) "Regular district" means an improvement district that is not a county district, electric
2674 district, or municipal district.
2675 (g) "Remaining area"means the area of a regular district that:
2676 (i) is outside the boundaries of an included municipality; and
2677 (ii) includes the area of an included municipality whose legislative body elects, under
2678 Subsection (4)(a)(i)(B), not to appoint a member to the board of trustees of the regular district.
2679 (h) "Remaining area member" means a member of a board of trustees of a regular
2680 district who is appointed, or, if applicable, elected to represent the remaining area of the district.
2681 (2) The legislative body of the municipality included within a municipal district may:
2682 (a) elect, at the time of the creation of the district, to be the board of trustees of the
2683 district; and
2684 (b) adopt at any time a resolution providing for:
2685 (i) the election of board of trustees members, as provided in Section 17B-1-306 ; or
2686 (ii) the appointment of board of trustees members, as provided in Section 17B-1-304 .
2687 (3) The legislative body of a county whose unincorporated area is partly or completely
2688 within a county district may:
2689 (a) elect, at the time of the creation of the district, to be the board of trustees of the

2690 district; and
2691 (b) adopt at any time a resolution providing for:
2692 (i) the election of board of trustees members, as provided in Section 17B-1-306 ; or
2693 (ii) the appointment of board of trustees members, as provided in Section 17B-1-304 .
2694 (4) (a) (i) [(A)] Except as provided in [Subsections] Subsection (4)(a)[(i)(B) and] (ii),
2695 the legislative body of each included municipality shall each appoint one member to the board of
2696 trustees of a regular district.
2697 [(B)] (ii) The legislative body of an included municipality may elect not to appoint a
2698 member to the board under Subsection (4)(a)(i)(A).
2699 [(ii) If municipalities are combined under Subsection (6)(b)(i), the legislative bodies of
2700 the combined municipalities shall collectively appoint one member to the board of trustees, as
2701 provided in Section 17B-1-304 .]
2702 (b) Except as provided in Subsection (5), the legislative body of each county whose
2703 boundaries include a remaining area shall appoint all other members to the board of trustees of a
2704 regular district.
2705 (5) Each remaining area member of a regular district and each county member of a
2706 county district shall be elected, as provided in Section 17B-1-306 , if:
2707 (a) the petition or resolution initiating the creation of the district provides for remaining
2708 area or county members to be elected;
2709 (b) the district holds an election to approve the district's issuance of bonds;
2710 (c) for a regular district, an included municipality elects, under Subsection (4)(a)(i)(B),
2711 not to appoint a member to the board of trustees; or
2712 (d) (i) at least 90 days before the municipal general election, a petition is filed with the
2713 district's board of trustees requesting remaining area members or county members, as the case
2714 may be, to be elected; and
2715 (ii) the petition is signed by registered voters within the remaining area or county
2716 district, as the case may be, equal in number to at least 10% of the number of registered voters
2717 within the remaining area or county district, respectively, who voted in the last gubernatorial

2718 election.
2719 (6) [(a)] Subject to Section 17B-1-302 , the number of members of a board of trustees
2720 of a regular district shall be:
2721 [(i)] (a) the number of included municipalities within the district, if:
2722 [(A)] (i) the number is an odd number; and
2723 [(B)] (ii) the district does not include a remaining area;
2724 [(ii)] (b) the number of included municipalities plus one, if the number of included
2725 municipalities within the district is even; and
2726 [(iii)] (c) the number of included municipalities plus two, if:
2727 [(A)] (i) the number of included municipalities is odd; and
2728 [(B)] (ii) the district includes a remaining area.
2729 [(b) (i) If the number of board members under Subsection (6)(a) exceeds nine, then,
2730 except as provided in Subsection (6)(b)(ii):]
2731 [(A) the number of members shall be nine; and]
2732 [(B) the least populated included municipalities shall be combined for purposes of
2733 representation to the extent necessary to result in nine members.]
2734 [(ii) Application of Subsection (6)(b)(i) may not cause an included municipality to lose
2735 its separate representation on the board until the end of the term of the board member appointed
2736 by that municipality.]
2737 (7) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (7)(b), each remaining area member of the
2738 board of trustees of a regular district shall reside within the remaining area.
2739 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (7)(a), if the population of the remaining area is less
2740 than 5% of the total district population, each remaining area member shall be chosen from the
2741 district at large.
2742 (8) If the election of remaining area or county members of the board of trustees is
2743 required because of a bond election, as provided in Subsection (5)(b):
2744 (a) a person may file a declaration of candidacy if:
2745 (i) the person resides within:

2746 (A) the remaining area, for a regular district; or
2747 (B) the county district, for a county district; and
2748 (ii) otherwise qualifies as a candidate;
2749 (b) the board of trustees shall, if required, provide a ballot separate from the bond
2750 election ballot, containing the names of candidates and blanks in which a voter may write
2751 additional names; and
2752 (c) the election shall otherwise be governed by Title 20A, Election Code.
2753 (9) (a) (i) This Subsection (9) applies to the board of trustees members of an electric
2754 district.
2755 (ii) Subsections (2) through (8) do not apply to an electric district.
2756 (b) The legislative body of the county in which an electric district is located may
2757 appoint the initial board of trustees of the electric district as provided in Section 17B-1-304 .
2758 (c) After the initial board of trustees is appointed as provided in Subsection (9)(b), each
2759 member of the board of trustees of an electric district shall be elected by persons using
2760 electricity from and within the district.
2761 (d) Each member of the board of trustees of an electric district shall be a user of
2762 electricity from the district and, if applicable, the division of the district from which elected.
2763 (e) The board of trustees of an electric district may be elected from geographic divisions
2764 within the district.
2765 (f) A municipality within an electric district is not entitled to automatic representation
2766 on the board of trustees.
2767 Section 43. Section 17B-2a-405 is amended to read:
2768 17B-2a-405. Board of trustees of certain sewer improvement districts.
2769 (1) As used in this section:
2770 (a) "Jurisdictional boundaries" means:
2771 (i) for a qualified county, the boundaries that include:
2772 (A) the area of the unincorporated part of the county that is included within a sewer
2773 improvement district; and

2774 (B) the area of each nonappointing municipality that is included within the sewer
2775 improvement district; and
2776 (ii) for a qualified municipality, the boundaries that include the area of the municipality
2777 that is included within a sewer improvement district.
2778 (b) "Nonappointing municipality" means a municipality that:
2779 (i) is partly included within a sewer improvement district; and
2780 (ii) is not a qualified municipality.
2781 (c) "Qualified county" means a county:
2782 (i) some or all of whose unincorporated area is included within a sewer improvement
2783 district; or
2784 (ii) which includes within its boundaries a nonappointing municipality.
2785 (d) "Qualified county member" means a member of a board of trustees of a sewer
2786 improvement district appointed under Subsection (3)(a)(ii).
2787 (e) "Qualified municipality" means a municipality that is partly or entirely included
2788 within a sewer improvement district that includes:
2789 (i) all of the municipality that is capable of receiving sewage treatment service from the
2790 sewer improvement district; and
2791 (ii) more than half of:
2792 (A) the municipality's land area; or
2793 (B) the assessed value of all private real property within the municipality.
2794 (f) "Qualified municipality member" means a member of a board of trustees of a sewer
2795 improvement district appointed under Subsection (3)(a)(i).
2796 (g) "Sewer improvement district" means an improvement district that:
2797 (i) provides sewage collection, treatment, and disposal service; and
2798 (ii) made an election before 1954 under [Chapter 29,] Laws of Utah 1953, Chapter 29,
2799 to enable it to continue to appoint its board of trustees members as provided in this section.
2800 (2) (a) Notwithstanding Section 17B-2a-404 , the board of trustees members of a sewer
2801 improvement district shall be appointed as provided in this section.

2802 (b) The board of trustees of a sewer improvement district may revoke the election
2803 under Subsection (1)(d)(ii) and become subject to the provisions of Section 17B-2a-404 only by
2804 the unanimous vote of all members of the sewer improvement district's board of trustees at a
2805 time when there is no vacancy on the board.
2806 (3) (a) The board of trustees of each sewer improvement district shall consist of:
2807 (i) at least one person but not more than three persons appointed by the mayor of each
2808 qualified municipality, with the consent of the legislative body of that municipality; and
2809 (ii) at least one person but not more than three persons appointed by:
2810 (A) the county executive, with the consent of the county legislative body, for a qualified
2811 county operating under a county executive-council form of county government; or
2812 (B) the county legislative body, for each other qualified county.
2813 (b) Each qualified county member appointed under Subsection (3)(a)(ii) shall represent
2814 the area within the jurisdictional boundaries of the qualified county.
2815 (4) Notwithstanding Subsection 17B-1-302 (2), the number of board of trustees
2816 members of a sewer improvement district shall be the number that results from application of
2817 Subsection (3)(a).
2818 (5) Except as provided in this section, an appointment to the board of trustees of a
2819 sewer improvement district is governed by Section 17B-1-304 .
2820 (6) A quorum of a board of trustees of a sewer improvement district consists of
2821 members representing more than 50% of the total number of qualified county and qualified
2822 municipality votes under Subsection (7).
2823 (7) (a) Subject to Subsection (7)(b), each qualified county and each qualified
2824 municipality is entitled to one vote on the board of trustees of a sewer improvement district for
2825 each $10,000,000, or fractional part larger than 1/2 of that amount, of assessed valuation of
2826 private real property taxable for district purposes within the respective jurisdictional boundaries,
2827 as shown by the assessment records of the county and evidenced by a certificate of the county
2828 auditor.
2829 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (7)(a), each qualified county and each qualified

2830 municipality shall have at least one vote.
2831 (8) If a qualified county or qualified municipality appoints more than one board
2832 member, all the votes to which the qualified county or qualified municipality is entitled under
2833 Subsection (7) for an item of board business shall collectively be cast by a majority of the
2834 qualified county members or qualified municipal members, respectively, present at a meeting of
2835 the board of trustees.
2836 Section 44. Section 17B-2a-406 is amended to read:
2837 17B-2a-406. Improvement districts providing electric service -- Public Service
2838 Commission jurisdiction -- Exceptions.
2839 (1) (a) An improvement district that provides electric service as authorized under
2840 Subsection 17B-2a-403 (1)(a)(iv):
2841 (i) is a public utility and subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission[.];
2842 (ii) may include only an area where:
2843 (A) no retail electricity has been provided to commercial, industrial, residential, and
2844 other users of electricity from an investor-owned utility within any part of an area certificated by
2845 the Public Service Commission or an area adjacent to that area, municipal agency, or electric
2846 cooperative within the five years immediately preceding September 1, 1985; and
2847 (B) electric service is provided to at least one user of electricity within the electric
2848 service district as of September 1, 1985; and
2849 (iii) shall have filed an application for certification and received approval by the Public
2850 Service Commission by September 1, 1986.
2851 (b) Nothing in this part may be construed to give the Public Service Commission
2852 jurisdiction over:
2853 (i) an improvement district, other than an improvement district that provides electric
2854 service as authorized under Subsection 17B-2a-403 (1)(a)(iv); or
2855 (ii) a municipality or an association of municipalities organized under Title 11, Chapter
2856 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act.
2857 (c) Before an improvement district providing electric service serves any customer, the

2858 improvement district shall obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the
2859 Public Service Commission.
2860 (2) (a) Section 54-7-12 does not apply to rate changes of an improvement district that
2861 provides electric service as authorized under Subsection 17B-2a-403 (1)(a)(iv) if:
2862 (i) the district is organized for the purpose of distributing electricity to customers within
2863 the boundaries of the district on a not-for-profit basis;
2864 (ii) the schedule of new rates or other change that results in new rates has been
2865 approved by the board of trustees of the district;
2866 (iii) prior to the implementation of any rate increases, the district first holds a public
2867 meeting for all its customers to whom mailed notice of the meeting is sent at least ten days prior
2868 to the meeting; and
2869 (iv) the district has filed the schedule of new rates or other change with the Public
2870 Service Commission.
2871 (b) The Public Service Commission shall make the district's schedule of new rates or
2872 other change available for public inspection.
2873 Section 45. Section 17B-2a-804 is amended to read:
2874 17B-2a-804. Additional public transit district powers.
2875 (1) In addition to the powers conferred on a public transit district under Section
2876 17B-1-103 , a public transit district may:
2877 (a) provide a public transit system for the transportation of passengers and their
2878 incidental baggage;
2879 (b) notwithstanding Subsection 17B-1-103 (2)[(i)](g) and subject to Section
2880 17B-2a-817 , levy and collect property taxes only for the purpose of paying:
2881 (i) principal and interest of bonded indebtedness of the public transit district; or
2882 (ii) a final judgment against the public transit district if:
2883 (A) the amount of the judgment exceeds the amount of any collectable insurance or
2884 indemnity policy; and
2885 (B) the district is required by a final court order to levy a tax to pay the judgment;

2886 (c) insure against:
2887 (i) loss of revenues from damage to or destruction of some or all of a public transit
2888 system from any cause;
2889 (ii) public liability;
2890 (iii) property damage; or
2891 (iv) any other type of event, act, or omission;
2892 (d) acquire, contract for, lease, construct, own, operate, control, or use:
2893 (i) a right-of-way, rail line, monorail, bus line, station, platform, switchyard, terminal,
2894 parking lot, or any other facility necessary or convenient for public transit service; or
2895 (ii) any structure necessary for access by persons and vehicles;
2896 (e) (i) hire, lease, or contract for the supplying or management of a facility, operation,
2897 equipment, service, employee, or management staff of an operator; and
2898 (ii) provide for a sublease or subcontract by the operator upon terms that are in the
2899 public interest;
2900 (f) operate feeder bus lines and other feeder services as necessary;
2901 (g) accept a grant, contribution, or loan, directly through the sale of securities or
2902 equipment trust certificates or otherwise, from the United States, or from a department,
2903 instrumentality, or agency of the United States, to:
2904 (i) establish, finance, construct, improve, maintain, or operate transit facilities and
2905 equipment; or
2906 (ii) study and plan transit facilities in accordance with any legislation passed by
2907 Congress;
2908 (h) cooperate with and enter into an agreement with the state or an agency of the state
2909 to establish transit facilities and equipment or to study or plan transit facilities;
2910 (i) issue bonds as provided in and subject to Chapter 1, Part 11, Local District Bonds,
2911 to carry out the purposes of the district;
2912 (j) from bond proceeds or any other available funds, reimburse the state or an agency of
2913 the state for an advance or contribution from the state or state agency; and

2914 (k) do anything necessary to avail itself of any aid, assistance, or cooperation available
2915 under federal law, including complying with labor standards and making arrangements for
2916 employees required by the United States or a department, instrumentality, or agency of the
2917 United States.
2918 (2) A public transit district may be funded from any combination of federal, state, or
2919 local funds.
2920 (3) A public transit district may not acquire property by eminent domain.
2921 Section 46. Section 17B-2a-813 is amended to read:
2922 17B-2a-813. Rights, benefits, and protective conditions for employees of a public
2923 transit district -- Strike prohibited -- Employees of an acquired transit system.
2924 (1) The rights, benefits, and other employee protective conditions and remedies of
2925 Section 13(c) of the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, 49 U.S.C. Sec. 5333(b), as
2926 determined by the Secretary of Labor, apply to[: (a)] a public transit district's establishment and
2927 operation of a public transit service or system[; and].
2928 [(b) a lease, contract, or other arrangement that a public transit district enters into for
2929 the operation of a public transit service or system.]
2930 (2) (a) Employees of a public transit system established and operated by a public transit
2931 district have the right to:
2932 (i) self-organization;
2933 (ii) form, join, or assist labor organizations; and
2934 (iii) bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing.
2935 (b) Employees of a public transit district and labor organizations may not join in a strike
2936 against the public transit system operated by the public transit district.
2937 (c) Each public transit district shall:
2938 (i) recognize and bargain exclusively with any labor organization representing a
2939 majority of the district's employees in an appropriate unit with respect to wages, salaries, hours,
2940 working conditions, and welfare, pension, and retirement provisions; and
2941 (ii) upon reaching agreement with the labor organization, enter into and execute a

2942 written contract incorporating the agreement.
2943 (3) If a public transit district acquires an existing public transit system:
2944 (a) all employees of the acquired system who are necessary for the operation of the
2945 acquired system, except executive and administrative officers and employees, shall be:
2946 (i) transferred to and appointed employees of the acquiring public transit district; and
2947 (ii) given sick leave, seniority, vacation, and pension or retirement credits in accordance
2948 with the acquired system's records;
2949 (b) members and beneficiaries of a pension or retirement plan or other program of
2950 benefits that the acquired system has established shall continue to have rights, privileges,
2951 benefits, obligations, and status with respect to that established plan or program; and
2952 (c) the public transit district may establish, amend, or modify, by agreement with
2953 employees or their authorized representatives, the terms, conditions, and provisions of a pension
2954 or retirement plan or of an amendment or modification of a pension or retirement plan.
2955 Section 47. Section 17B-2a-1005 is amended to read:
2956 17B-2a-1005. Water conservancy district board of trustees -- Selection of
2957 members -- Number -- Qualifications -- Terms -- Vacancies -- Surety bonds -- Authority.
2958 (1) (a) Within 45 days after the creation of a water conservancy district as provided in
2959 Section 17B-1-215 , the board of trustees shall be selected as provided in this Subsection (1).
2960 (b) For a district located entirely within the boundaries of a single county, the county
2961 legislative body of that county shall appoint each trustee.
2962 (c) (i) For a district located in more than a single county, the governor, with the consent
2963 of the Senate, shall appoint each trustee from nominees submitted as provided in this Subsection
2964 (1)(c).
2965 (ii) (A) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(c)(ii)(B), in a division composed solely of
2966 municipalities, the legislative body of each municipality within the division shall submit two
2967 nominees per trustee.
2968 (B) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(c)(ii)(A), the legislative body of a municipality may
2969 submit fewer than two nominees per trustee if the legislative body certifies in writing to the

2970 governor that the legislative body is unable, after reasonably diligent effort, to identify two
2971 nominees who are willing and qualified to serve as trustee.
2972 (iii) (A) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(c)(iii)(B), in all other divisions, the
2973 county legislative body of the county in which the division is located shall submit three
2974 nominees per trustee.
2975 (B) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(c)(iii)(A), the county legislative body may submit
2976 fewer than three nominees per trustee if the county legislative body certifies in writing to the
2977 governor that the county legislative body is unable, after reasonably diligent effort, to identify
2978 three nominees who are willing and qualified to serve as trustee.
2979 (iv) If a trustee represents a division located in more than one county, the county
2980 legislative bodies of those counties shall collectively compile the list of three nominees.
2981 (v) For purposes of this Subsection (1)(c), a municipality that is located in more than
2982 one county shall be considered to be located in only the county in which more of the municipal
2983 area is located than in any other county.
2984 (d) In districts where substantial water is allocated for irrigated agriculture, one trustee
2985 appointed in that district shall be a person who owns irrigation rights and uses those rights as
2986 part of that person's livelihood.
2987 (2) (a) The board of trustees of a water conservancy district shall consist of:
2988 (i) except as provided in Subsection (2)(a)(ii), not more than 11 persons who are
2989 residents of the district; or
2990 (ii) if the district consists of five or more counties, not more than 21 persons who are
2991 residents of the district.
2992 (b) At least 90 days before expiration of a trustee's term, the board shall[: (i)] give
2993 written notice of the upcoming vacancy and the date when the trustee's term expires to the
2994 county legislative body in single county districts and to the nominating entities and the governor
2995 in all other districts[; and].
2996 [(ii) publish the notice in a newspaper having general circulation within the district.]
2997 (c) (i) Upon receipt of the notice of the expiration of a trustee's term or notice of a

2998 vacancy in the office of trustee, the county or municipal legislative body, as the case may be,
2999 shall nominate candidates to fill the unexpired term of office pursuant to Subsection (1).
3000 (ii) If a trustee is to be appointed by the governor and the entity charged with
3001 nominating candidates has not submitted the list of nominees within 90 days after service of the
3002 notice, the governor shall make the appointment from qualified candidates without consultation
3003 with the county or municipal legislative body.
3004 (iii) If the governor fails to appoint, the incumbent shall continue to serve until a
3005 successor is appointed and qualified.
3006 (iv) Appointment by the governor vests in the appointee, upon qualification, the
3007 authority to discharge the duties of trustee, subject only to the consent of the Senate.
3008 (d) Each trustee shall hold office during the term for which appointed and until a
3009 successor is duly appointed and has qualified.
3010 (3) Each trustee shall furnish a corporate surety bond at the expense of the district,
3011 conditioned for the faithful performance of duties as a trustee.
3012 (4) (a) The board of trustees of a water conservancy district may:
3013 (i) make and enforce all reasonable rules and regulations for the management, control,
3014 delivery, use, and distribution of water;
3015 (ii) withhold the delivery of water with respect to which there is a default or
3016 delinquency of payment;
3017 (iii) provide for and declare a forfeiture of the right to the use of water upon the default
3018 or failure to comply with an order, contract, or agreement for the purchase, lease, or use of
3019 water, and resell, lease, or otherwise dispose of water with respect to which a forfeiture has
3020 been declared;
3021 (iv) allocate and reallocate the use of water to lands within the district;
3022 (v) provide for and grant the right, upon terms, to transfer water from lands to which
3023 water has been allocated to other lands within the district;
3024 (vi) create a lien, as provided in this part, upon land to which the use of water is
3025 transferred;

3026 (vii) discharge a lien from land to which a lien has attached; and
3027 (viii) subject to Subsection (4)(b), enter into a written contract for the sale, lease, or
3028 other disposition of the use of water.
3029 (b) (i) A contract under Subsection (4)(a)(viii) may provide for the use of water
3030 perpetually or for a specified term.
3031 (ii) (A) If a contract under Subsection (4)(a)(viii) makes water available to the
3032 purchasing party without regard to actual taking or use, the board may require that the
3033 purchasing party give security for the payment to be made under the contract, unless the
3034 contract requires the purchasing party to pay for certain specified annual minimums.
3035 (B) The security requirement under Subsection (4)(b)(iii)(A) in a contract with a public
3036 entity may be met by including in the contract a provision for the public entity's levy of a special
3037 assessment to make annual payments to the district.
3038 Section 48. Section 17B-2a-1007 is amended to read:
3039 17B-2a-1007. Contract assessments.
3040 (1) As used in this section:
3041 (a) "Assessed land" means:
3042 (i) for a contract assessment under a water contract with a private water user, the land
3043 owned by the private water user that receives the beneficial use of water under the water
3044 contract; or
3045 (ii) for a contract assessment under a water contract with a public water user, the land
3046 within the boundaries of the public water user that is within the boundaries of the water
3047 conservancy district and that receives the beneficial use of water under the water contract.
3048 (b) "Contract assessment" means an assessment levied as provided in this section by a
3049 water conservancy district on assessed land.
3050 (c) "Governing body" means:
3051 (i) for a county, city, or town, the legislative body of the county, city, or town;
3052 (ii) for a local district, the board of trustees of the local district;
3053 (iii) for a special service district:

3054 (A) the legislative body of the county, city, or town that established the special service
3055 district, if no administrative control board has been appointed under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ]
3056 17D-1-301 ; or
3057 (B) the administrative control board of the special service district, if an administrative
3058 control board has been appointed under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ] 17D-1-301 ; and
3059 (iv) for any other political subdivision of the state, the person or body with authority to
3060 govern the affairs of the political subdivision.
3061 (d) "Petitioner" means a private petitioner or a public petitioner.
3062 (e) "Private petitioner" means an owner of land within a water conservancy district who
3063 submits a petition to a water conservancy district under Subsection (3) to enter into a water
3064 contract with the district.
3065 (f) "Private water user" means an owner of land within a water conservancy district
3066 who enters into a water contract with the district.
3067 (g) "Public petitioner" means a political subdivision of the state:
3068 (i) whose territory is partly or entirely within the boundaries of a water conservancy
3069 district; and
3070 (ii) that submits a petition to a water conservancy district under Subsection (3) to enter
3071 into a water contract with the district.
3072 (h) "Public water user" means a political subdivision of the state:
3073 (i) whose territory is partly or entirely within the boundaries of a water conservancy
3074 district; and
3075 (ii) that enters into a water contract with the district.
3076 (i) "Water contract" means a contract between a water conservancy district and a
3077 private water user or a public water user under which the water user purchases, leases, or
3078 otherwise acquires the beneficial use of water from the water conservancy district for the benefit
3079 of:
3080 (i) land owned by the private water user; or
3081 (ii) land within the public water user's boundaries that is also within the boundaries of

3082 the water conservancy district.
3083 (j) "Water user" means a private water user or a public water user.
3084 (2) A water conservancy district may levy a contract assessment as provided in this
3085 section.
3086 (3) (a) The governing body of a public petitioner may authorize its chief executive
3087 officer to submit a written petition on behalf of the public petitioner to a water conservancy
3088 district requesting to enter into a water contract.
3089 (b) A private petitioner may submit a written petition to a water conservancy district
3090 requesting to enter into a water contract.
3091 (c) Each petition under this Subsection (3) shall include:
3092 (i) the petitioner's name;
3093 (ii) the quantity of water the petitioner desires to purchase or otherwise acquire;
3094 (iii) a description of the land upon which the water will be used;
3095 (iv) the price to be paid for the water;
3096 (v) the amount of any service, turnout, connection, distribution system, or other charge
3097 to be paid;
3098 (vi) whether payment will be made in cash or annual installments;
3099 (vii) a provision requiring the contract assessment to become a lien on the land for
3100 which the water is petitioned and is to be allotted; and
3101 (viii) an agreement that the petitioner is bound by the provisions of this part and the
3102 rules and regulations of the water conservancy district board of trustees.
3103 (4) (a) If the board of a water conservancy district desires to consider a petition
3104 submitted by a petitioner under Subsection (3), the board shall:
3105 (i) publish notice of the petition and of the hearing required under Subsection (4)(a)(ii)
3106 at least once a week in two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation within the
3107 county in which the political subdivision or private petitioner's land, as the case may be, is
3108 located; and
3109 (ii) hold a public hearing on the petition.

3110 (b) Each notice under Subsection (4)(a)(i) shall:
3111 (i) state that a petition has been filed and that the district is considering levying a
3112 contract assessment; and
3113 (ii) give the date, time, and place of the hearing required under Subsection (4)(a)(ii).
3114 (c) (i) At each hearing required under Subsection (4)(a)(ii), the board of trustees of the
3115 water conservancy district shall:
3116 (A) allow any interested person to appear and explain why the petition should not be
3117 granted; and
3118 (B) consider each written objection to the granting of the petition that the board
3119 receives before or at the hearing.
3120 (ii) The board of trustees may adjourn and reconvene the hearing as the board considers
3121 appropriate.
3122 (d) (i) Any interested person may file with the board of the water conservancy district,
3123 at or before the hearing under Subsection (4)(a)(ii), a written objection to the district's granting
3124 a petition.
3125 (ii) Each person who fails to submit a written objection within the time provided under
3126 Subsection (4)(d)(i) is considered to have consented to the district's granting the petition and
3127 levying a contract assessment.
3128 (5) After holding a public hearing as required under Subsection (4)(a)(ii), the board of
3129 trustees of a water conservancy district may:
3130 (a) deny the petition; or
3131 (b) grant the petition, if the board considers granting the petition to be in the best
3132 interests of the district.
3133 (6) The board of a water conservancy district that grants a petition under this section
3134 may:
3135 (a) make an allotment of water for the benefit of assessed land;
3136 (b) authorize any necessary construction to provide for the use of water upon the terms
3137 and conditions stated in the water contract;

3138 (c) divide the district into units and fix a different rate for water purchased or otherwise
3139 acquired and for other charges within each unit, if the rates and charges are equitable, although
3140 not equal and uniform, for similar classes of services throughout the district; and
3141 (d) levy a contract assessment on assessed land.
3142 (7) (a) The board of trustees of each water conservancy district that levies a contract
3143 assessment under this section shall:
3144 (i) cause a certified copy of the resolution, ordinance, or order levying the assessment
3145 to be recorded in the office of the recorder of each county in which assessed land is located; and
3146 (ii) on or before July 1 of each year after levying the contract assessment, certify to the
3147 auditor of each county in which assessed land is located the amount of the contract assessment.
3148 (b) Upon the recording of the resolution or ordinance under Subsection (7)(a)(i), the
3149 contract assessment associated with allotting water to the assessed land under the water
3150 contract becomes a perpetual lien on the assessed land.
3151 (c) Each county in which assessed land is located shall collect the contract assessment
3152 in the same manner as taxes levied by the county.
3153 (8) (a) The board of trustees of each water conservancy district that levies a contract
3154 assessment under this section shall:
3155 (i) hold a public hearing, before August 8 of each year in which a contract assessment is
3156 levied, to hear and consider objections filed under Subsection (8)(b); and
3157 (ii) twice publish a notice, at least a week apart:
3158 (A) (I) in a newspaper of general circulation in each county with assessed land included
3159 within the district boundaries; or
3160 (II) if there is no newspaper of general circulation within the county, in a newspaper of
3161 general circulation in an adjoining county;
3162 (B) that contains:
3163 (I) a general description of the assessed land;
3164 (II) the amount of the contract assessment; and
3165 (III) the time and place of the public hearing under Subsection (8)(a)(i).

3166 (b) An owner of assessed land within the water conservancy district who believes that
3167 the contract assessment on the owner's land is excessive, erroneous, or illegal may, before the
3168 hearing under Subsection (8)(a)(i), file with the board of trustees a verified, written objection to
3169 the assessment, stating the grounds for the objection.
3170 (c) (i) At each hearing under Subsection (8)(a)(i), the board of trustees shall hear and
3171 consider the evidence and arguments supporting each objection.
3172 (ii) After hearing and considering the evidence and arguments supporting an objection,
3173 the board of trustees:
3174 (A) shall enter a written order, stating its decision; and
3175 (B) may modify the assessment.
3176 (d) (i) An owner of assessed land may file a petition in district court seeking review of a
3177 board of trustees' order under Subsection (8)(c)(i)(A).
3178 (ii) Each petition under Subsection (8)(d)(i) shall:
3179 (A) be filed within 30 days after the board enters its written order;
3180 (B) state specifically the part of the board's order for which review is sought; and
3181 (C) be accompanied by a bond with good and sufficient security in an amount not
3182 exceeding $200, as determined by the court clerk.
3183 (iii) If more than one owner of assessed land seeks review, the court may, upon a
3184 showing that the reviews may be consolidated without injury to anyone's interests, consolidate
3185 the reviews and hear them together.
3186 (iv) The court shall act as quickly as possible after a petition is filed.
3187 (v) A court may not disturb a board of trustees' order unless the court finds that the
3188 contract assessment on the petitioner's assessed land is manifestly disproportionate to
3189 assessments imposed upon other land in the district.
3190 (e) If no petition under Subsection (8)(d) is timely filed, the contract assessment is
3191 conclusively considered to have been made in proportion to the benefits conferred on the land in
3192 the district.
3193 (9) Each resolution, ordinance, or order under which a water conservancy district levied

3194 a Class B, Class C, or Class D assessment before April 30, 2007 under the law in effect at the
3195 time of the levy is validated, ratified, and confirmed, and a water conservancy district may
3196 continue to levy the assessment according to the terms of the resolution, ordinance, or order.
3197 (10) A contract assessment is not a levy of an ad valorem property tax and is not
3198 subject to the limits stated in Section 17B-2a-1006 .
3199 Section 49. Section 17D-1-101 is enacted to read:
3200 TITLE 17D. LIMITED PURPOSE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES - OTHER
3201 ENTITIES
3202 CHAPTER 1. SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT ACT
3203 Part 1. General Provisions
3204 17D-1-101. Title.
3205 (1) This title is known as "Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Other
3206 Entities."
3207 (2) This chapter is known as the "Special Service District Act."
3208 Section 50. Section 17D-1-102 is enacted to read:
3209 17D-1-102. Definitions.
3210 As used in this chapter:
3211 (1) "Adequate protests" means written protests timely filed by:
3212 (a) owners of property within the applicable area representing more than 33% of the
3213 taxable value of all taxable property within the applicable area; or
3214 (b) more than 33% of all registered voters within the applicable area.
3215 (2) "Applicable area" means:
3216 (a) for a proposal to create a special service district, the area included within the
3217 proposed special service district;
3218 (b) for a proposal to annex an area to an existing special service district, the area
3219 proposed to be annexed;
3220 (c) for a proposal to add a service to the service or services provided by a special
3221 service district, the area included within the special service district; and

3222 (d) for a proposal to consolidate special service districts, the area included within each
3223 special service district proposed to be consolidated.
3224 (3) "Facility" or "facilities" includes any structure, building, system, land, water right,
3225 water, or other real or personal property required to provide a service that a special service
3226 district is authorized to provide, including any related or appurtenant easement or right-of-way,
3227 improvement, utility, landscaping, sidewalk, road, curb, gutter, equipment, or furnishing.
3228 (4) "General obligation bond":
3229 (a) means a bond that is directly payable from and secured by ad valorem property taxes
3230 that are:
3231 (i) levied:
3232 (A) by the county or municipality that created the special service district that issues the
3233 bond; and
3234 (B) on taxable property within the special service district; and
3235 (ii) in excess of the ad valorem property taxes for the current fiscal year; and
3236 (b) does not include:
3237 (i) a short-term bond;
3238 (ii) a tax and revenue anticipation bond; or
3239 (iii) a special assessment bond.
3240 (5) "Governing body" means:
3241 (a) the legislative body of the county or municipality that creates the special service
3242 district, to the extent that the county or municipal legislative body has not delegated authority to
3243 an administrative control board appointed under Section 17D-1-301 ; or
3244 (b) the administrative control board of the special service district, to the extent that the
3245 county or municipal legislative body has delegated authority to an administrative control board
3246 appointed under Section 17D-1-301 .
3247 (6) "Guaranteed bonds" means bonds:
3248 (a) issued by a special service district; and
3249 (b) the debt service of which is guaranteed by one or more taxpayers owning property

3250 within the special service district.
3251 (7) "Local district" has the same meaning as defined in Section 17B-1-102 .
3252 (8) "Revenue bond":
3253 (a) means a bond payable from designated taxes or other revenues other than the ad
3254 valorem property taxes of the county or municipality that created the special service district; and
3255 (b) does not include:
3256 (i) an obligation constituting an indebtedness within the meaning of an applicable
3257 constitutional or statutory debt limit;
3258 (ii) a tax and revenue anticipation bond; or
3259 (iii) a special assessment bond.
3260 (9) "Special assessment" means an assessment levied against property to pay all or a
3261 portion of the costs of making improvements that benefit the property.
3262 (10) "Special assessment bond" means a bond payable from special assessments.
3263 (11) "Special service district" means a limited purpose local government entity, as
3264 described in Section 17D-1-103 , that:
3265 (a) is created under authority of the Utah Constitution Article XI, Section 7; and
3266 (b) operates under, is subject to, and has the powers set forth in this chapter.
3267 (12) "Tax and revenue anticipation bond" means a bond:
3268 (a) issued in anticipation of the collection of taxes or other revenues or a combination
3269 of taxes and other revenues; and
3270 (b) that matures within the same fiscal year as the fiscal year in which the bond is
3271 issued.
3272 Section 51. Section 17D-1-103 is enacted to read:
3273 17D-1-103. Special service district status, powers, and duties -- Limitation on
3274 districts providing jail service.
3275 (1) A special service district:
3276 (a) is a body corporate and politic with perpetual succession, separate and distinct from
3277 the county or municipality that creates it;

3278 (b) is a quasi-municipal corporation; and
3279 (c) may sue and be sued.
3280 (2) A special service district may:
3281 (a) exercise the power of eminent domain possessed by the county or municipality that
3282 creates the special service district;
3283 (b) enter into a contract that the governing authority considers desirable to carry out
3284 special service district functions, including a contract:
3285 (i) with the United States or an agency of the United States, the state, an institution of
3286 higher education, a county, a municipality, a school district, a local district, another special
3287 service district, or any other political subdivision of the state; or
3288 (ii) that includes provisions concerning the use, operation, and maintenance of special
3289 service district facilities and the collection of fees or charges with respect to commodities,
3290 services, or facilities that the district provides;
3291 (c) acquire or construct facilities;
3292 (d) acquire real or personal property, or an interest in real or personal property,
3293 including water and water rights, whether by purchase, lease, gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise,
3294 and whether the property is located inside or outside the special service district, and own, hold,
3295 improve, use, finance, or otherwise deal in and with the property or property right;
3296 (e) sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer, or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the
3297 special service district's property or assets, including water and water rights;
3298 (f) mortgage, pledge, or otherwise encumber all or any part of the special service
3299 district's property or assets, including water and water rights;
3300 (g) enter into a contract with respect to the use, operation, or maintenance of all or any
3301 part of the special service district's property or assets, including water and water rights;
3302 (h) accept a government grant or loan and comply with the conditions of the grant or
3303 loan;
3304 (i) use an officer, employee, property, equipment, office, or facility of the county or
3305 municipality that created the special service district, subject to reimbursement as provided in

3306 Subsection (3);
3307 (j) employ one or more officers, employees, or agents, including one or more engineers,
3308 accountants, attorneys, or financial consultants, and establish their compensation;
3309 (k) designate an assessment area and levy an assessment as provided in Title 11,
3310 Chapter 42, Assessment Area Act;
3311 (l) contract with a franchised, certificated public utility for the construction and
3312 operation of an electrical service distribution system within the special service district;
3313 (m) borrow money and incur indebtedness;
3314 (n) as provided in Part 5, Special Service District Bonds, issue bonds for the purpose of
3315 acquiring, constructing, and equipping any of the facilities required for the services the special
3316 service district is authorized to provide, including:
3317 (i) bonds payable in whole or in part from taxes levied on the taxable property in the
3318 special service district;
3319 (ii) bonds payable from revenues derived from the operation of revenue-producing
3320 facilities of the special service district;
3321 (iii) bonds payable from both taxes and revenues;
3322 (iv) guaranteed bonds, payable in whole or in part from taxes levied on the taxable
3323 property in the special service district;
3324 (v) tax anticipation notes;
3325 (vi) bond anticipation notes;
3326 (vii) refunding bonds;
3327 (viii) special assessment bonds; and
3328 (ix) bonds payable in whole or in part from mineral lease payments as provided in
3329 Section 11-14-308 ;
3330 (o) except as provided in Subsection (4), impose fees or charges or both for
3331 commodities, services, or facilities that the special service district provides;
3332 (p) provide to an area outside the special service district's boundary, whether inside or
3333 outside the state, a service that the special service district is authorized to provide within its

3334 boundary, if the governing body makes a finding that there is a public benefit to providing the
3335 service to the area outside the special service district's boundary;
3336 (q) provide other services that the governing body determines will more effectively
3337 carry out the purposes of the special service district; and
3338 (r) adopt an official seal for the special service district.
3339 (3) Each special service district that uses an officer, employee, property, equipment,
3340 office, or facility of the county or municipality that created the special service district shall
3341 reimburse the county or municipality a reasonable amount for what the special service district
3342 uses.
3343 (4) (a) A special service district that provides jail service as provided in Subsection
3344 17D-1-201 (10) may not impose a fee or charge for the service it provides.
3345 (b) Subsection (4)(a) may not be construed to limit a special service district that
3346 provides jail service from:
3347 (i) entering into a contract with the federal government, the state, or a political
3348 subdivision of the state to provide jail service for compensation; or
3349 (ii) receiving compensation for jail service it provides under a contract described in
3350 Subsection (4)(b)(i).
3351 Section 52. Section 17D-1-104 is enacted to read:
3352 17D-1-104. Property owner provisions -- Determination of registered voters.
3353 (1) For purposes of this chapter:
3354 (a) the owner of real property is the fee title owner according to the records of the
3355 county recorder on the date of the filing of the petition or protest; and
3356 (b) the value of private real property is determined according to the last assessment
3357 before the filing of the petition or protest, as determined by:
3358 (i) (A) the county under Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 3, County Assessment, for property
3359 subject to assessment by the county; or
3360 (B) the State Tax Commission under Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 2, Assessment of
3361 Property, for property subject to assessment by the State Tax Commission; and

3362 (ii) the county, for all other property.
3363 (2) For purposes of each provision of this chapter that requires the owners of private
3364 real property covering a percentage of the total private land area within the applicable area to
3365 sign a petition or protest:
3366 (a) a parcel of real property may not be included in the calculation of the required
3367 percentage unless the petition or protest is signed by:
3368 (i) except as provided in Subsection (2)(a)(ii), owners representing a majority
3369 ownership interest in that parcel; or
3370 (ii) if the parcel is owned by joint tenants or tenants by the entirety, 50% of the number
3371 of owners of that parcel;
3372 (b) the signature of a person signing a petition or protest in a representative capacity on
3373 behalf of an owner is invalid unless:
3374 (i) the person's representative capacity and the name of the owner the person represents
3375 are indicated on the petition or protest with the person's signature; and
3376 (ii) the person provides documentation accompanying the petition or protest that
3377 reasonably substantiates the person's representative capacity; and
3378 (c) subject to Subsection (2)(b), a duly appointed personal representative may sign a
3379 petition or protest on behalf of a deceased owner.
3380 (3) For purposes of this chapter, registered voters shall be determined according to the
3381 official register.
3382 Section 53. Section 17D-1-105 is enacted to read:
3383 17D-1-105. Authority of county or municipality to levy property tax on property
3384 within a special service district.
3385 (1) Subject to Subsections (2) and (3), a county or municipality that has created a
3386 special service district may levy a tax on the taxable property in the special service district.
3387 (2) Each levy under Subsection (1) is subject to the prior approval of a majority of the
3388 registered voters of the special service district voting in an election held for that purpose under
3389 Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act, in the same manner as for an election for

3390 the issuance of bonds.
3391 (3) A tax levied under this section for a special service district that provides jail service
3392 as provided in Subsection 17D-1-201 (10) is considered to be levied by the county for purposes
3393 of the county's tax limitation under Section 59-2-908 .
3394 Section 54. Section 17D-1-106 is enacted to read:
3395 17D-1-106. Special service districts subject to other provisions.
3396 (1) A special service district is, to the same extent as if it were a local district, subject to
3397 and governed by:
3398 (a) Sections 17B-1-105 , 17B-1-107, 17B-1-108 , 17B-1-109 , 17B-1-110 , 17B-1-111 ,
3399 17B-1-112 , 17B-1-113, and 17B-1-116;
3400 (b) Sections 17B-1-304 , 17B-1-305, 17B-1-306 , 17B-1-307 , 17B-1-310 , 17B-1-312 ,
3401 and 17B-1-313 ;
3402 (c) Title 17B, Chapter 1, Part 6, Fiscal Procedures for Local Districts;
3403 (d) Title 17B, Chapter 1, Part 7, Local District Budgets and Audit Reports;
3404 (e) Title 17B, Chapter 1, Part 8, Local District Personnel Management; and
3405 (f) Title 17B, Chapter 1, Part 9, Collection of Service Fees and Charges.
3406 (2) For purposes of applying the provisions listed in Subsection (1) to a special service
3407 district, each reference in those provisions to the local district board of trustees means the
3408 governing authority.
3409 Section 55. Section 17D-1-107 is enacted to read:
3410 17D-1-107. Contracts subject to building improvement and public works
3411 provisions.
3412 (1) For each special service district created by a county, the legislative body of that
3413 county shall by ordinance designate the classes of special service district contracts that are
3414 subject to the requirements of Title 11, Chapter 39, Building Improvements and Public Works
3415 Projects.
3416 (2) For each special service district created by a municipality, the legislative body of
3417 that municipality shall by ordinance designate the classes of special service district contracts that

3418 are subject to the requirements of Title 11, Chapter 39, Building Improvements and Public
3419 Works Projects.
3420 Section 56. Section 17D-1-108 is enacted to read:
3421 17D-1-108. Conflict.
3422 If a provision of this chapter conflicts with any other statutory provision, the provision
3423 of this chapter controls.
3424 Section 57. Section 17D-1-109 is enacted to read:
3425 17D-1-109. Validation of previously created special service districts.
3426 Each special service district created before May 5, 2008 is validated, ratified, and
3427 confirmed and declared to be validly existing.
3428 Section 58. Section 17D-1-201 is enacted to read:
3429 Part 2. Creating a Special Service District
3430 17D-1-201. Services that a special service district may be created to provide.
3431 As provided in this part, a county or municipality may create a special service district to
3432 provide any combination of the following services:
3433 (1) water;
3434 (2) sewerage;
3435 (3) drainage;
3436 (4) flood control;
3437 (5) garbage collection and disposal;
3438 (6) health care;
3439 (7) transportation;
3440 (8) recreation;
3441 (9) fire protection and, if fire protection service is provided, emergency medical or
3442 ambulance or both;
3443 (10) providing, operating, and maintaining correctional and rehabilitative facilities and
3444 programs for municipal, state, and other detainees and prisoners;
3445 (11) street lighting;

3446 (12) consolidated 911 and emergency dispatch;
3447 (13) animal shelter and control;
3448 (14) receiving federal mineral lease funds under Title 59, Chapter 21, Mineral Lease
3449 Funds, and expending those funds to provide construction and maintenance of public facilities,
3450 traditional governmental services, and planning, as a means for mitigating impacts from
3451 extractive mineral industries; and
3452 (15) in a county of the first class, extended police protection.
3453 Section 59. Section 17D-1-202 is enacted to read:
3454 17D-1-202. Limitations on the creation of a special service district.
3455 (1) Subject to Subsection (2), the boundary of a proposed special service district may
3456 include all or part of the area within the boundary of the county or municipality that creates the
3457 special service district.
3458 (2) (a) The boundary of a proposed special service district may not include an area
3459 included within the boundary of an existing special service district that provides the same
3460 service that the proposed special service district is proposed to provide.
3461 (b) The boundary of a proposed special service district may not include an area included
3462 within the boundary of an existing local district that provides the same service that the proposed
3463 special service district is proposed to provide, unless the local district consents.
3464 (c) A proposed special service district may not include land that will not be benefitted
3465 by the service that the special service district is proposed to provide, unless the owner of the
3466 nonbenefitted land consents to the inclusion.
3467 (d) A county may not create a special service district that includes some or all of the
3468 area within a municipality unless the legislative body of that municipality adopts a resolution or
3469 ordinance consenting to the inclusion.
3470 (3) All areas included within a special service district need not be contiguous.
3471 Section 60. Section 17D-1-203 is enacted to read:
3472 17D-1-203. Initiating the process to create a special service district.
3473 (1) The process to create a special service district is initiated by:

3474 (a) the legislative body of a county or municipality that proposes to create a special
3475 service district adopting a resolution that:
3476 (i) declares that the public health, convenience, and necessity require the creation of a
3477 special service district;
3478 (ii) indicates the legislative body's intent to create a special service district; and
3479 (iii) complies with the requirements of Subsection (3); or
3480 (b) the filing of a petition that:
3481 (i) proposes the creation of a special service district;
3482 (ii) complies with the requirements of Subsections (2) and (3); and
3483 (iii) is filed with the legislative body of the county or municipality in whose boundary
3484 the proposed special service district is located.
3485 (2) Each petition under Subsection (1)(b) shall:
3486 (a) be signed by:
3487 (i) the owners of at least 10% of the taxable value of taxable property within the
3488 proposed special service district; or
3489 (ii) at least 10% of the registered voters residing within the proposed special service
3490 district; and
3491 (b) indicate:
3492 (i) the residence address of each person who signs the petition; and
3493 (ii) if the person signs the petition as a property owner, the address or other description
3494 of the person's property sufficient to identify the property.
3495 (3) Each resolution under Subsection (1)(a) and petition under Subsection (1)(b) shall:
3496 (a) describe the boundaries of the proposed special service district;
3497 (b) specify each service that the special service district is proposed to provide; and
3498 (c) designate a name for the proposed special service district.
3499 Section 61. Section 17D-1-204 is enacted to read:
3500 17D-1-204. Prerequisites for adopting a resolution or ordinance creating a special
3501 service district.

3502 Before the legislative body of a county or municipality may adopt a resolution or
3503 ordinance under Section 17D-1-208 creating a special service district:
3504 (1) the clerk or recorder, as the case may be, of the county or municipality shall give
3505 written notice as provided in Section 17D-1-205 ;
3506 (2) the legislative body shall hold a public hearing, as provided in Section 17D-1-207 ;
3507 and
3508 (3) the period for filing protests under Section 17D-1-206 shall have passed without
3509 adequate protests having been filed.
3510 Section 62. Section 17D-1-205 is enacted to read:
3511 17D-1-205. Notice.
3512 (1) Each notice required under Subsection 17D-1-204 (1) shall:
3513 (a) state that:
3514 (i) the legislative body has adopted a resolution stating its intent to create a special
3515 service district; or
3516 (ii) a petition has been filed proposing the creation of a special service district;
3517 (b) describe the boundary of the proposed special service district;
3518 (c) generally describe each service that the special service district is proposed to
3519 provide;
3520 (d) state that taxes may be levied annually upon all taxable property within the proposed
3521 special service district;
3522 (e) state that fees or charges may be imposed to pay for some or all of the services that
3523 the special service district is proposed to provide;
3524 (f) explain the process, requirements, and timetable for filing a protest against the
3525 creation of the special service district or against a service that the special service district is
3526 proposed to provide;
3527 (g) designate a date, time, and place for a public hearing on the proposed creation of
3528 the special service district; and
3529 (h) except as provided in Subsection (2), be published at least once a week during three

3530 consecutive weeks:
3531 (i) not less than 21 days or more than 35 days before the date of the public hearing
3532 required under Subsection 17D-1-204 (2); and
3533 (ii) in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or municipality by which the
3534 special service district is proposed to be created.
3535 (2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1)(h), if the proposed special service district is located
3536 entirely within a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or a town that has no newspaper of
3537 general circulation in the city or town, the legislative body of the city or town may provide that
3538 the notice required under Subsection 17D-1-204 (1) be given by posting the notice in at least
3539 five public places in the city or town at least 21 days before the public hearing required under
3540 Subsection 17D-1-204 (2).
3541 (3) The legislative body of the county or municipality by which the special service
3542 district is proposed to be created may include in a notice under this section any other
3543 information that the legislative body considers necessary or appropriate.
3544 Section 63. Section 17D-1-206 is enacted to read:
3545 17D-1-206. Protests.
3546 (1) An interested person may protest:
3547 (a) the creation of a special service district; or
3548 (b) a service that the special service district is proposed to provide.
3549 (2) Each protest under Subsection (1) shall:
3550 (a) be in writing;
3551 (b) be submitted:
3552 (i) to the legislative body of the county or municipality by which the special service
3553 district is proposed to be created; and
3554 (ii) no later than 15 days after the public hearing required under Subsection
3555 17D-1-204 (2); and
3556 (c) explain why the person is protesting.
3557 (3) A person who submitted a written protest against the creation of a special service

3558 district may withdraw the protest or, having withdrawn a protest, cancel the withdrawal, until
3559 30 days after the public hearing required under Subsection 17D-1-204 (2).
3560 (4) The legislative body of a county or municipality may not adopt a resolution or
3561 ordinance creating a special service district if adequate protests are filed with respect to the
3562 creation of the special service district.
3563 (5) The legislative body of a county or municipality may not adopt a resolution or
3564 ordinance authorizing a special service district to provide a service if adequate protests are filed
3565 with respect to that service.
3566 Section 64. Section 17D-1-207 is enacted to read:
3567 17D-1-207. Public hearing.
3568 (1) On the date and at the time and place specified in the notice under Section
3569 17D-1-205 , the legislative body of the county or municipality by which the special service
3570 district is proposed to be created shall hold a public hearing.
3571 (2) At each public hearing under this section, the legislative body shall:
3572 (a) give full consideration to each written protest that has been filed; and
3573 (b) hear and consider each interested person desiring to be heard.
3574 (3) The legislative body may continue the hearing to another date and time.
3575 Section 65. Section 17D-1-208 is enacted to read:
3576 17D-1-208. Adoption of a resolution or ordinance creating a special service
3577 district.
3578 (1) Subject to the provisions of and as provided in this part, the legislative body of a
3579 county or municipality may adopt a resolution or ordinance creating a special service district.
3580 (2) (a) Subject to Subsection (2)(b), a resolution or ordinance adopted by a legislative
3581 body under Subsection (1) may contain changes from the proposal as set forth in a resolution
3582 under Subsection 17D-1-203 (1)(a) or a petition under Subsection 17D-1-203 (1)(b), including
3583 changes in:
3584 (i) the boundary of the special service district; and
3585 (ii) the services to be provided by the special service district.

3586 (b) The legislative body of a county or municipality may not adopt a resolution or
3587 ordinance under Subsection (1) that creates a special service district with a boundary that
3588 includes more area than is included in, or that authorizes the special service district to provide a
3589 service not proposed in, a resolution under Subsection 17D-1-203 (1)(a) or a petition under
3590 Subsection 17D-1-203 (1)(b), unless the requirements of Sections 17D-1-205 , 17D-1-206 , and
3591 17D-1-207 are met with respect to the additional area or service, as the case may be.
3592 Section 66. Section 17D-1-209 is enacted to read:
3593 17D-1-209. Notice to lieutenant governor.
3594 (1) Within 30 days after adopting a resolution or ordinance under Subsection
3595 17D-1-208 (1) creating a special service district, the legislative body adopting the resolution or
3596 ordinance shall file a notice with the lieutenant governor.
3597 (2) Each notice under Subsection (1) shall:
3598 (a) be accompanied by:
3599 (i) a copy of the resolution or ordinance creating the special service district; and
3600 (ii) a map showing the boundaries of the special service district, prepared and certified
3601 by a licensed surveyor and filed with the county surveyor in accordance with Section 17-23-17 ;
3602 and
3603 (b) include the legislative body's certification that all requirements for the creation of the
3604 special service district have been met.
3605 (3) Upon the lieutenant governor's issuance of a certificate of creation under Section
3606 67-1a-6.5 , the special service district is created and incorporated.
3607 Section 67. Section 17D-1-210 is enacted to read:
3608 17D-1-210. Services that special service district is authorized to provide.
3609 (1) After its creation, a special service district may provide the service or services:
3610 (a) specified in the resolution or ordinance creating the special service district; or
3611 (b) added under Part 4, Annexing a New Area and Adding a New Service.
3612 (2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1), a special service district created before May 5,
3613 2008 may continue on and after that date to provide a service that the special service district

3614 was authorized before May 5, 2008 to provide.
3615 Section 68. Section 17D-1-211 is enacted to read:
3616 17D-1-211. Municipality's ability to provide temporary jail facilities not affected
3617 by the creation of a special service district to provide jail services.
3618 The creation of a special service district to provide jail services as provided in
3619 Subsection 17D-1-201 (10) does not affect the ability of a municipality under Section 10-8-58 to
3620 provide, operate, and maintain facilities for the temporary incarceration, not to exceed 72 hours,
3621 of persons charged with the violation of a municipal ordinance.
3622 Section 69. Section 17D-1-212 is enacted to read:
3623 17D-1-212. Action to challenge the creation of a special service district or a service
3624 to be provided.
3625 (1) A person may file an action in district court challenging the creation of a special
3626 service district or a service that a special service district is proposed to provide if:
3627 (a) the person filed a written protest under Section 17D-1-206 ;
3628 (b) the person:
3629 (i) (A) is a registered voter within the special service district; and
3630 (B) alleges in the action that the procedures used to create the special service district
3631 violated applicable law; or
3632 (ii) (A) is an owner of property included within the boundary of the special service
3633 district; and
3634 (B) alleges in the action that:
3635 (I) the person's property will not be benefitted by a service that the special service
3636 district is proposed to provide; or
3637 (II) the procedures used to create the special service district violated applicable law;
3638 and
3639 (c) the action is filed within 30 days after the date that the legislative body adopts a
3640 resolution or ordinance creating the special service district.
3641 (2) If an action is not filed within the time specified under Subsection (1), a registered

3642 voter or an owner of property located within the special service district may not contest the
3643 creation of the special service district or a service that the special service district is proposed to
3644 provide.
3645 Section 70. Section 17D-1-301 is enacted to read:
3646 Part 3. Administrative Control Board
3647 17D-1-301. Governance of a special service district -- Authority to create and
3648 delegate authority to an administrative control board -- Limitations on authority to
3649 delegate.
3650 (1) Each special service district shall be governed by the legislative body of the county
3651 or municipality that creates the special service district, subject to any delegation under this
3652 section of a right, power, or authority to an administrative control board.
3653 (2) At the time a special service district is created or at any time thereafter, the
3654 legislative body of a county or municipality that creates a special service district may, by
3655 resolution or ordinance:
3656 (a) create an administrative control board for the special service district; and
3657 (b) subject to Subsection (3), delegate to the administrative control board the exercise
3658 of any right, power, or authority that the legislative body possesses with respect to the
3659 governance of the special service district.
3660 (3) A county or municipal legislative body may not delegate to an administrative control
3661 board of a special service district the power to:
3662 (a) annex an area to an existing special service district or add a service within the area
3663 of an existing special service district under Part 4, Annexing a New Area and Adding a New
3664 Service;
3665 (b) designate, under Section 17D-1-107 , the classes of special service district contracts
3666 that are subject to Title 11, Chapter 39, Building Improvements and Public Works Projects;
3667 (c) levy a tax on the taxable property within the special service district;
3668 (d) issue special service district bonds payable from taxes;
3669 (e) call or hold an election for the authorization of a property tax or the issuance of

3670 bonds;
3671 (f) levy an assessment;
3672 (g) issue interim warrants or bonds payable from an assessment; or
3673 (h) appoint a board of equalization under Section 11-42-404 .
3674 (4) (a) A county or municipal legislative body that has delegated a right, power, or
3675 authority under this section to an administrative control board may at any time modify, limit, or
3676 revoke any right, power, or authority delegated to the administrative control board.
3677 (b) A modification, limitation, or revocation under Subsection (4)(a) does not affect the
3678 validity of an action taken by an administrative control board before the modification, limitation,
3679 or revocation.
3680 Section 71. Section 17D-1-302 is enacted to read:
3681 17D-1-302. Number of members of an administrative control board.
3682 (1) Each administrative control board shall consist of at least three members.
3683 (2) The number of administrative control board members for a special service district
3684 established by a county of the first class to provide jail service as provided in Subsection
3685 17D-1-201 (10) is nine.
3686 Section 72. Section 17D-1-303 is enacted to read:
3687 17D-1-303. Election or appointment of administrative control board members.
3688 (1) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b)(iii), a county or municipal legislative body
3689 that creates an administrative control board may provide for board members to be elected or
3690 appointed, or for some members to be elected and some appointed.
3691 (2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), each member of an administrative
3692 control board shall be elected or appointed as provided for the election or appointment,
3693 respectively, of a member of a board of trustees of a local district under Title 17B, Chapter 1,
3694 Part 3, Board of Trustees.
3695 (b) (i) A municipality or improvement district under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 4,
3696 Improvement District Act, may appoint one member to represent it on an administrative control
3697 board created by a special service district if:

3698 (A) the special service district was created by a county;
3699 (B) the special service district provides the same service as the municipality or
3700 improvement district; and
3701 (C) the special service district includes some or all of the area included within the
3702 municipality or improvement district.
3703 (ii) An institution of higher education for which a special service district provides
3704 commodities, services, or facilities may appoint the number of members of an administrative
3705 control board of that special service district that are equal in number to at least 1/3 of the total
3706 number of board members.
3707 (iii) With respect to an administrative control board created for a special service district
3708 created by a county of the first class to provide jail service as provided in Subsection
3709 17D-1-201 (10), the county legislative body shall appoint:
3710 (A) three members from a list of at least six recommendations from the county sheriff;
3711 (B) three members from a list of at least six recommendations from municipalities
3712 within the county; and
3713 (C) three members from a list of at least six recommendations from the county
3714 executive.
3715 Section 73. Section 17D-1-304 is enacted to read:
3716 17D-1-304. Qualifications of administrative control board members -- Term of
3717 office.
3718 (1) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (1)(b), each member of an administrative
3719 control board shall be:
3720 (i) a registered voter within the special service district; or
3721 (ii) an officer or employee of the county or municipality that created the special service
3722 district.
3723 (b) Subsection (1)(a) does not apply if:
3724 (i) at least 90% of the owners of real property within the special service district are not
3725 registered voters within the special service district; or

3726 (ii) the member is appointed under Subsection 17D-1-303 (2)(b)(i) or (ii).
3727 (2) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(b), the term of each member of an
3728 administrative control board is four years.
3729 (b) The term of as close as possible to half of the initial members of an administrative
3730 control board, chosen by lot, is two years.
3731 Section 74. Section 17D-1-305 is enacted to read:
3732 17D-1-305. Compensation for administrative control board members.
3733 An administrative control board member may receive compensation and reimbursement
3734 of expenses as provided in Section 17B-1-307 to the same extent as if the member were a
3735 member of a board of trustees of a local district.
3736 Section 75. Section 17D-1-306 is enacted to read:
3737 17D-1-306. Administrative control board review of certain charges in special
3738 service districts providing jail service.
3739 If the legislative body of a county of the first class creates an administrative control
3740 board under this part for a special service district that provides jail service as provided in
3741 Subsection 17D-1-201 (10), the administrative control board may review and approve any
3742 amount charged to the special service district as reimbursement to the county for services
3743 provided under Subsection 17D-1-103 (2)(i) before the amount is included in the special service
3744 district budget.
3745 Section 76. Section 17D-1-401 is enacted to read:
3746 Part 4. Annexing a New Area and Adding a New Service
3747 17D-1-401. Annexing an area or adding a service to an existing special service
3748 district.
3749 (1) Except as provided in Subsections (3) and (4), a county or municipal legislative
3750 body may, as provided in this part:
3751 (a) annex an area to an existing special service district to provide to that area a service
3752 that the special service district is authorized to provide;
3753 (b) add a service under Section 17D-1-201 within the area of an existing special service

3754 district that the special service district is not already authorized to provide; or
3755 (c) both annex an area under Subsection (1)(a) and add a service under Subsection
3756 (1)(b).
3757 (2) Except for Section 17D-1-209 , the provisions of Part 2, Creating a Special Service
3758 District, apply to and govern the process of annexing an area to an existing special service
3759 district or adding a service that the special service district is not already authorized to provide,
3760 to the same extent as if the annexation or addition were the creation of a special service district.
3761 (3) A county or municipal legislative body may not:
3762 (a) annex an area to an existing special service district if a local district provides to that
3763 area the same service that the special service district is proposed to provide to the area, unless
3764 the local district consents to the annexation; or
3765 (b) add a service within the area of an existing special service district if a local district
3766 provides to that area the same service that is proposed to be added, unless the local district
3767 consents to the addition.
3768 (4) A county or municipal legislative body may not annex an area to an existing special
3769 service district or add a service within the area of an existing special service district if the
3770 creation of a special service district including that area or providing that service would not be
3771 allowed under Part 2, Creating a Special Service District.
3772 Section 77. Section 17D-1-402 is enacted to read:
3773 17D-1-402. Inapplicability of some requirements if petition is filed by all owners
3774 of taxable real property.
3775 Notwithstanding Section 17D-1-401 , the notice, hearing, and protest requirements of
3776 Part 2, Creating a Special Service District, do not apply if a petition to annex an area or to add a
3777 service to an existing special service district is filed with the legislative body of the county or
3778 municipality, as the case may be, containing the signatures of all owners of taxable real
3779 property:
3780 (1) within the area proposed to be annexed, if the petition is for annexation of an area
3781 to the special service district; or

3782 (2) within the special service district, if the petition is for adding a service to be
3783 provided by the special service district.
3784 Section 78. Section 17D-1-403 is enacted to read:
3785 17D-1-403. Notice of annexation to lieutenant governor -- Lieutenant governor
3786 certification.
3787 (1) If a county or municipal legislative body adopts a resolution approving the
3788 annexation of an area to an existing special service district, the legislative body shall, within 30
3789 days after adopting the resolution, file a notice with the lieutenant governor.
3790 (2) Each notice under Subsection (1) shall:
3791 (a) be accompanied by:
3792 (i) a copy of the resolution adopted by the legislative body approving the annexation;
3793 and
3794 (ii) a map showing the additional area to be annexed to the special service district,
3795 prepared and certified by a licensed surveyor and filed with the county surveyor in accordance
3796 with Section 17-23-17 ; and
3797 (b) include the legislative body's certification that all requirements for the annexation of
3798 the additional area have been met.
3799 (3) Upon the lieutenant governor's issuance of the certificate of boundary change under
3800 Section 67-1a-6.5 , the additional area that is the subject of the legislative body's resolution is
3801 annexed to the special service district.
3802 Section 79. Section 17D-1-501 is enacted to read:
3803 Part 5. Special Service District Bonds
3804 17D-1-501. Provisions applicable to a special service district's issuance of bonds.
3805 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter:
3806 (1) each special service district that issues bonds shall:
3807 (a) issue them as provided in, as applicable:
3808 (i) Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act; or
3809 (ii) Title 11, Chapter 42, Assessment Area Act; and

3810 (b) receive the benefits of Title 11, Chapter 30, Utah Bond Validation Act; and
3811 (2) each special service district that issues refunding bonds shall issue them as provided
3812 in Title 11, Chapter 27, Utah Refunding Bond Act.
3813 Section 80. Section 17D-1-502 is enacted to read:
3814 17D-1-502. General obligation bonds.
3815 (1) Except as provided in Subsection (3), if a special service district intends to issue
3816 general obligation bonds, the special service district shall first obtain the approval of special
3817 service district voters for issuance of the bonds at an election held for that purpose as provided
3818 in Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act.
3819 (2) General obligation bonds shall be secured by a pledge of the full faith and credit of
3820 the special service district.
3821 (3) A special service district may issue refunding general obligation bonds, as provided
3822 in Title 11, Chapter 27, Utah Refunding Bond Act, without obtaining voter approval.
3823 (4) (a) A special service district may not issue general obligation bonds if the issuance
3824 of the bonds will cause the outstanding principal amount of all of the special service district's
3825 general obligation bonds to exceed the amount that results from multiplying the fair market
3826 value of the taxable property within the special service district, as determined under Subsection
3827 11-14-301 (3)(b), by .12.
3828 (b) Bonds or other obligations of a special service district that are not general obligation
3829 bonds are not included in the limit stated in Subsection (4)(a).
3830 (5) A special service district may not be considered to be a municipal corporation for
3831 purposes of the debt limitation of the Utah Constitution Article XIV, Section 4.
3832 (6) Bonds issued by an administrative or legal entity created under Title 11, Chapter 13,
3833 Interlocal Cooperation Act, may not be considered to be bonds of a special service district that
3834 participates in the agreement creating the administrative or legal entity.
3835 Section 81. Section 17D-1-503 is enacted to read:
3836 17D-1-503. Levy to pay for general obligation bonds.
3837 (1) (a) If a special service district has issued general obligation bonds, or expects to

3838 have debt service payments due on general obligation bonds during the current year, the
3839 legislative body of the county or municipality that created the special service district may make
3840 an annual levy of ad valorem property taxes in order to:
3841 (i) pay the principal of and interest on the general obligation bonds;
3842 (ii) establish a sinking fund for defaults and future debt service on the general obligation
3843 bonds; and
3844 (iii) establish a reserve to secure payment of the general obligation bonds.
3845 (b) A levy under Subsection (1)(a) is:
3846 (i) without limitation as to rate or amount; and
3847 (ii) subject to the prior approval of a majority of registered voters of the special service
3848 district voting in an election held for that purpose.
3849 (2) (a) Each county or municipality that levies a tax under Subsection (1) shall:
3850 (i) levy the tax as a separate and special levy for the specific purposes stated in
3851 Subsection (1); and
3852 (ii) apply the proceeds from the levy solely for the purpose of paying the principal of
3853 and interest on the general obligation bonds, even though the proceeds may be used to establish
3854 or replenish a sinking fund under Subsection (1)(a)(ii) or a reserve under Subsection (1)(a)(iii).
3855 (b) A levy under Subsection (2)(a) is not subject to a priority in favor of a special
3856 service district obligation in existence at the time the bonds were issued.
3857 Section 82. Section 17D-1-504 is enacted to read:
3858 17D-1-504. Pledge of revenues to pay for bonds.
3859 Bonds may be payable from and secured by the pledge of all or any specified part of:
3860 (1) the revenues to be derived by the special service district from providing its services
3861 and from the operation of its facilities and other properties;
3862 (2) sales and use taxes, property taxes, and other taxes;
3863 (3) federal, state, or local grants;
3864 (4) in the case of special assessment bonds, the special assessments pledged to repay the
3865 special assessment bonds; and

3866 (5) other money legally available to the special service district.
3867 Section 83. Section 17D-1-505 is enacted to read:
3868 17D-1-505. Revenue bonds -- Requirement to impose rates and charges to cover
3869 revenue bonds -- Authority to make agreements and covenants to provide for bond
3870 repayment.
3871 (1) Subject to Subsection 17D-1-501 (2), a special service district intending to issue
3872 revenue bonds may, but is not required to, submit to special service district voters for their
3873 approval the issuance of the revenue bonds at an election held for that purpose as provided in
3874 Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act.
3875 (2) Each special service district that has issued revenue bonds shall impose rates and
3876 charges for the services or commodities it provides fully sufficient, along with other sources of
3877 special service district revenues, to carry out all undertakings of the special service district with
3878 respect to its revenue bonds.
3879 (3) A special service district that issues revenue bonds may:
3880 (a) agree to pay operation and maintenance expenses of the special service district from
3881 the proceeds of the ad valorem taxes that this chapter authorizes the county or municipality that
3882 created the special service district to levy; and
3883 (b) for the benefit of bondholders, enter into covenants that:
3884 (i) are permitted by Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act; and
3885 (ii) provide for other pertinent matters that the governing body considers proper to
3886 assure the marketability of the bonds.
3887 Section 84. Section 17D-1-506 is enacted to read:
3888 17D-1-506. Governing body required to fix rates to cover district expenses and
3889 bonds.
3890 The governing body shall fix the rate or rates for services or commodities provided by
3891 the special service district that will, in conjunction with the proceeds of any maintenance and
3892 operation tax and other special service district revenues:
3893 (1) pay the special service district's operating expenses;

3894 (2) provide for repairs and depreciation of works owned or operated by the special
3895 service district;
3896 (3) pay the interest on any bonds issued by the special service district; and
3897 (4) provide, as much as practicable, a sinking or other fund to pay the principal of the
3898 bonds as they become due.
3899 Section 85. Section 17D-1-507 is enacted to read:
3900 17D-1-507. Guaranteed bonds.
3901 (1) Before a special service district may issue guaranteed bonds:
3902 (a) the special service district shall:
3903 (i) obtain a report:
3904 (A) prepared by:
3905 (I) a qualified, registered architect or engineer; or
3906 (II) a person qualified by experience appropriate to the project proposed to be funded
3907 by the proceeds from the guaranteed bonds;
3908 (B) setting forth:
3909 (I) a description of the project proposed to be funded by the proceeds from the
3910 guaranteed bonds;
3911 (II) the estimated or, if available, the actual cost of the project;
3912 (III) the principal amount and date and amount of each stated maturity of:
3913 (Aa) the guaranteed bonds to be issued; and
3914 (Bb) any outstanding guaranteed bonds of the special service district;
3915 (IV) the interest rate or rates of any outstanding guaranteed bonds of the special service
3916 district;
3917 (V) the amount of the annual debt service for each year during the life of all outstanding
3918 guaranteed bonds issued by the special service district;
3919 (VI) the estimated amount of the annual debt service for each year during the life of all
3920 guaranteed bonds that the special service district intends to issue to finance all or any part of the
3921 project; and

3922 (VII) the date or estimated date that the project will be complete; and
3923 (ii) submit to the Governor's Office of Economic Development:
3924 (A) the report described in Subsection (1)(a)(i);
3925 (B) a copy of each proposed guarantee of the guaranteed bonds, certified by the special
3926 service district;
3927 (C) a legal opinion indicating that each guarantee, when executed, will be the legal and
3928 binding obligation of the taxpayer executing the guarantee in accordance with the terms of the
3929 guarantee; and
3930 (D) evidence satisfactory to the Governor's Office of Economic Development from each
3931 taxpayer executing a guarantee of the guaranteed bonds as to the financial ability of the taxpayer
3932 to perform under the guarantee;
3933 (b) the Governor's Office of Economic Development shall, if it approves the issuance of
3934 the guaranteed bonds, deliver to the special service district governing body a written statement
3935 of its approval; and
3936 (c) the special service district governing body shall file the written approval statement
3937 under Subsection (1)(b) with the recorder of the county in which the special service district is
3938 located.
3939 (2) The issuance of guaranteed bonds is conditioned upon the approval of special
3940 service district voters at an election held for that purpose as provided in Title 11, Chapter 14,
3941 Local Government Bonding Act.
3942 (3) Guaranteed bonds that have been issued and remain outstanding shall be included in
3943 the determination of the debt limit under Subsection 17D-1-502 (4) if the bonds by their terms
3944 no longer enjoy the benefit of the guarantee.
3945 (4) On July 1 of each year, the governing body shall file with the department of
3946 community affairs a report certifying:
3947 (a) the total amount of bonds issued by the special service district and other debt then
3948 outstanding and subject to the debt limit of Subsection 17D-1-502 (4);
3949 (b) the total amount of guaranteed bonds then outstanding and not subject to the debt

3950 limit of Subsection 17D-1-502 (4); and
3951 (c) the total amount of guaranteed bonds that, during the preceding 12 months,
3952 discontinued to enjoy the benefit of the guarantee.
3953 Section 86. Section 17D-1-508 is enacted to read:
3954 17D-1-508. Special service district obligations are not obligations of any other
3955 entity.
3956 A special service district bond, note, or other obligation or indebtedness, whether or not
3957 payable from taxes, may not be:
3958 (1) considered to be a bond, note, or other obligation or indebtedness of or to be
3959 enforceable against the state or a county, municipality, school district, or other political
3960 subdivision of the state; or
3961 (2) taken into account in calculating a debt limit applicable to the state or a county,
3962 municipality, school district, or other political subdivision of the state.
3963 Section 87. Section 17D-1-509 is enacted to read:
3964 17D-1-509. Ratification of previously issued bonds and previously entered
3965 contracts.
3966 All bonds issued or contracts entered into by a special service district before May 5,
3967 2008 are ratified, validated, and confirmed and declared to be valid and legally binding
3968 obligations of the special service district in accordance with their terms.
3969 Section 88. Section 17D-1-601 is enacted to read:
3970 Part 6. Withdrawal, Dissolution, and Discontinuing Service
3971 17D-1-601. Adoption of a resolution to approve withdrawal, dissolution, or
3972 discontinuance of a service.
3973 Subject to and as provided in this part, the legislative body of the county or municipality
3974 that created a special service district may by resolution:
3975 (1) approve the withdrawal of an area from the special service district if the legislative
3976 body determines that the area should not or cannot be provided the service that the special
3977 service district provides;

3978 (2) approve the dissolution of the special service district if the legislative body
3979 determines that the special service district is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was
3980 created; or
3981 (3) discontinue a service that the special service district provides.
3982 Section 89. Section 17D-1-602 is enacted to read:
3983 17D-1-602. Limitations on adoption of withdrawal, dissolution, or discontinuance
3984 resolution.
3985 (1) A resolution under Subsection 17D-1-601 (1) or (2) to approve the withdrawal of an
3986 area from a special service district or the dissolution of a special service district may not be
3987 adopted if:
3988 (a) any bond, note, or other obligation of the special service district is outstanding and
3989 unpaid; or
3990 (b) any contractual obligation to provide service exists.
3991 (2) (a) A resolution under Subsection 17D-1-601 (3) to discontinue a service may not be
3992 adopted if the special service district:
3993 (i) has an outstanding bond payable in whole or in part from fees and charges imposed
3994 for the service to be discontinued; or
3995 (ii) is under contractual obligation to provide the service.
3996 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (2)(a)(i), a resolution to discontinue a service may be
3997 adopted if:
3998 (i) the bond is paid;
3999 (ii) adequate provision is made for payment of the bond; or
4000 (iii) the holder of the bond agrees to the discontinuance, if allowed under the bond.
4001 (c) Notwithstanding Subsection (2)(a)(ii), a resolution to discontinue a service may be
4002 adopted if all parties to the contract consent to the discontinuance.
4003 Section 90. Section 17D-1-603 is enacted to read:
4004 17D-1-603. Notice of adoption of resolution approving a withdrawal or dissolution
4005 -- Lieutenant governor certificate -- Effective date of withdrawal or dissolution.

4006 (1) Within 30 days after adopting a resolution approving the withdrawal of an area from
4007 a special service district or the dissolution of a special service district, the county or municipal
4008 legislative body, as the case may be, shall file a notice with the lieutenant governor.
4009 (2) Each notice under Subsection (1) shall:
4010 (a) be accompanied by:
4011 (i) a copy of the resolution approving the withdrawal or dissolution; and
4012 (ii) in the case of a withdrawal, a map showing the area to be withdrawn, prepared and
4013 certified by a licensed surveyor and filed with the county surveyor in accordance with Section
4014 17-23-17 ; and
4015 (b) include the legislative body's certification that all requirements for the withdrawal or
4016 dissolution have been met.
4017 (3) (a) Upon the lieutenant governor's issuance of the certificate of withdrawal under
4018 Section 67-1a-6.5 , the area to be withdrawn that is the subject of the legislative body's
4019 resolution is withdrawn from the special service district.
4020 (b) Upon the lieutenant governor's issuance of the certificate of dissolution under
4021 Section 67-1a-6.5 , the special service district is dissolved.
4022 Section 91. Section 17D-2-101 is enacted to read:
4023 CHAPTER 2. LOCAL BUILDING AUTHORITY ACT
4024 Part 1. General Provisions
4025 17D-2-101. Title.
4026 This chapter is known as the "Local Building Authority Act."
4027 Section 92. Section 17D-2-102 is enacted to read:
4028 17D-2-102. Definitions.
4029 As used in this chapter:
4030 (1) "Authority board" means the board of directors of a local building authority, as
4031 described in Section 17D-2-203 .
4032 (2) "Bond" includes a bond, note, or other instrument issued under this chapter
4033 evidencing an indebtedness of a local building authority.

4034 (3) "Creating local entity" means the local entity that creates or created the local
4035 building authority.
4036 (4) "Governing body" means:
4037 (a) for a county, city, or town, the legislative body of the county, city, or town;
4038 (b) for a school district, the local school board for the school district;
4039 (c) for a local district, the local district's board of trustees; and
4040 (d) for a special service district, the special service district's governing body, as defined
4041 in Section 17D-1-102 .
4042 (5) "Local building authority":
4043 (a) means a nonprofit corporation that is:
4044 (i) created as provided in Section 17D-2-201 ;
4045 (ii) described in Section 17D-2-103 ; and
4046 (iii) subject to and governed by the provisions of this chapter; and
4047 (b) includes a nonprofit corporation created as a municipal building authority before
4048 May 5, 2008 under the law then in effect.
4049 (6) "Local district" has the same meaning as provided in Section 17B-1-102 .
4050 (7) "Local entity" means a county, city, town, school district, local district, or special
4051 service district.
4052 (8) "Mortgage" means any instrument under which property may be encumbered as
4053 security for an obligation, including a mortgage, trust deed, indenture, pledge, assignment,
4054 security agreement, and financing statement.
4055 (9) "Project" means an improvement, facility, property, or appurtenance to property
4056 that a local entity is permitted under law to own or acquire, whether located inside or outside
4057 the local entity's boundary, including:
4058 (a) a public building or other structure of any kind; and
4059 (b) a joint or partial interest in the improvement, facility, property, or appurtenance to
4060 property.
4061 (10) "Project costs":

4062 (a) means all costs incurred in the development of a project; and
4063 (b) includes:
4064 (i) organizational and incorporation fees, including filing, legal, and financial advisor
4065 fees;
4066 (ii) the cost of a site for the project;
4067 (iii) the cost of equipment and furnishings for the project;
4068 (iv) the cost of planning and designing the project, including architectural, planning,
4069 engineering, legal, and fiscal advisor fees;
4070 (v) contractor fees associated with the project;
4071 (vi) the cost of issuing local building authority bonds to finance the project, including
4072 printing costs, document preparation costs, filing fees, recording fees, legal and other
4073 professional fees, underwriting costs, bond discount costs, any premium on the bonds, and any
4074 fees required to be paid to retire outstanding bonds;
4075 (vii) interest on local building authority bonds issued to finance the project;
4076 (viii) carrying costs;
4077 (ix) interest estimated to accrue on local building authority bonds during the period of
4078 construction of the project and for 12 months after;
4079 (x) any amount the governing body finds necessary to establish one or more reserve
4080 funds;
4081 (xi) any amount the governing body finds necessary to provide working capital for the
4082 project;
4083 (xii) all costs of transferring title of the project to the creating local entity;
4084 (xiii) all costs of dissolving the local building authority; and
4085 (xiv) all other reasonable costs associated with the project.
4086 (11) "Special service district" has the same meaning as provided in Section 17D-1-102 .
4087 Section 93. Section 17D-2-103 is enacted to read:
4088 17D-2-103. Status and authority of a local building authority.
4089 A local building authority:

4090 (1) is a public entity and an instrumentality of the state, created by a local entity solely
4091 for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, improving, or extending, and financing the costs of,
4092 one or more projects on behalf of the local entity;
4093 (2) shall be known as the "Local Building Authority of (name of the creating local
4094 entity)"; and
4095 (3) may:
4096 (a) as provided in this chapter, construct, acquire, improve, or extend, and finance the
4097 costs of, one or more projects on behalf of the creating local entity, in order to accomplish the
4098 public purposes for which the creating local entity exists; and
4099 (b) as provided in Part 5, Local Building Authority Bonds, issue and sell its bonds for
4100 the purpose of paying the costs of constructing, acquiring, improving, or extending a project.
4101 Section 94. Section 17D-2-104 is enacted to read:
4102 17D-2-104. Local building authority property exempt from taxation.
4103 Property owned, held, or acquired by a local building authority, including all rent or
4104 other payment due under a lease agreement, is exempt from all taxation in the state.
4105 Section 95. Section 17D-2-105 is enacted to read:
4106 17D-2-105. Action of a local entity's governing body or a local building
4107 authority's board of directors.
4108 (1) The governing body of a local entity or the authority board of a local building
4109 authority may take an action or proceeding under this chapter by resolution.
4110 (2) Except as specifically required under this chapter:
4111 (a) an ordinance, resolution, or proceeding with respect to a transaction under this
4112 chapter is not necessary; and
4113 (b) the publication of a resolution, proceeding, or notice relating to a transaction under
4114 this chapter is not necessary.
4115 (3) The governing body of a local entity or authority board of a local building authority
4116 may adopt a proceeding under this chapter on a single reading at a legally convened meeting of
4117 the governing body or authority board, as the case may be.

4118 (4) Except as specifically provided in this chapter, a resolution adopted or proceeding
4119 taken under this chapter is not subject to referendum.
4120 Section 96. Section 17D-2-106 is enacted to read:
4121 17D-2-106. Publications in newspapers.
4122 A publication made under this chapter may be made in a newspaper conforming to the
4123 terms of this chapter and in which legal notices may be published under the law, without regard
4124 to whether the newspaper is designated as the local entity's official journal or newspaper.
4125 Section 97. Section 17D-2-107 is enacted to read:
4126 17D-2-107. Local building authority not subject to any state board, commission,
4127 or agency.
4128 Neither a local building authority nor a project is subject to the jurisdiction of any board,
4129 commission, or agency of the state, including the Public Service Commission.
4130 Section 98. Section 17D-2-108 is enacted to read:
4131 17D-2-108. Other statutory provisions.
4132 (1) This chapter is supplemental to existing laws relating to a local entity's acquisition,
4133 use, maintenance, management, or operation of a project.
4134 (2) Except as provided in this chapter, a local entity or local building authority that
4135 complies with the provisions of this chapter need not comply with any other statutory provision
4136 concerning the acquisition, construction, use, or maintenance of a project, including:
4137 (a) a statute relating to public bidding; and
4138 (b) Title 63, Chapter 56, Utah Procurement Code.
4139 (3) A local building authority is, to the same extent as if it were a local district, subject
4140 to and governed by:
4141 (a) Title 17B, Chapter 1, Part 6, Fiscal Procedures for Local Districts;
4142 (b) Title 17B, Chapter 1, Part 8, Local District Personnel Management; and
4143 (c) Section 17B-1-108 .
4144 Section 99. Section 17D-2-109 is enacted to read:
4145 17D-2-109. Construction of this chapter -- Conflicts with other provisions.

4146 (1) To enable a local building authority to perform its essential governmental functions
4147 on behalf of its creating local entity, this chapter shall be liberally construed.
4148 (2) (a) If a provision of this chapter conflicts with another statutory provision, the
4149 provision of this chapter controls.
4150 (b) Subsection (2)(a) applies notwithstanding Section 11-14-403 .
4151 Section 100. Section 17D-2-110 is enacted to read:
4152 17D-2-110. Validation of previous proceedings.
4153 Each proceeding taken by a local entity before May 5, 2008 in connection with the
4154 creation and operation of a local building authority is validated, ratified, approved, and
4155 confirmed.
4156 Section 101. Section 17D-2-201 is enacted to read:
4157 Part 2. Local Building Authority Creation, Powers, and Governance
4158 17D-2-201. Creating a local building authority -- Articles of incorporation and
4159 bylaws -- Changing a local building authority.
4160 (1) The governing body of a local entity may create a local building authority by
4161 following the procedures in Title 16, Chapter 6a, Utah Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act, for
4162 the incorporation of a nonprofit corporation.
4163 (2) The creating local entity's governing body shall approve:
4164 (a) the local building authority's articles of incorporation before they are filed with the
4165 Division of Corporations and Commercial Code; and
4166 (b) the local building authority's bylaws.
4167 (3) The creating local entity's governing body may, in its sole discretion and at any time,
4168 change the local building authority's structure, organization, programs, or activities, subject to:
4169 (a) this chapter; and
4170 (b) the rights of:
4171 (i) holders of the local building authority's bonds; and
4172 (ii) parties to other obligations of the local building authority.
4173 Section 102. Section 17D-2-202 is enacted to read:

4174 17D-2-202. Staff and personnel of a local building authority -- Legal, accounting,
4175 and auditing services.
4176 (1) A local building authority may:
4177 (a) as necessary for the local building authority's performance of its functions and
4178 activities:
4179 (i) subject to Subsection (2), contract for or employ staff and other personnel, including
4180 the personnel of the creating local entity; and
4181 (ii) contract with the creating local entity to use the creating local entity's property or
4182 facilities; and
4183 (b) include the cost of the use of the creating local entity's personnel, property, or
4184 facilities under Subsection (1)(a) in the amount the local building authority charges under a
4185 lease or agreement with the creating local entity.
4186 (2) (a) If a creating local entity has an elected attorney, that elected attorney shall be the
4187 legal advisor to and provide all legal services for the local building authority created by the
4188 creating local entity, subject to Subsection (3).
4189 (b) If a creating local entity has an elected auditor, that elected auditor shall provide all
4190 accounting and auditing services for the local building authority created by the creating local
4191 entity, subject to Subsection (3).
4192 (c) The local building authority shall reimburse the creating local entity for legal,
4193 accounting, and auditing services provided by the creating local entity's elected attorney or
4194 auditor, based on the actual cost of the services, including a reasonable amount that the creating
4195 local entity allocates for overhead, employee benefits, and general and administrative costs.
4196 (3) Subsection (2) may not be construed to prevent a local building authority from
4197 obtaining:
4198 (a) with the consent of the elected attorney and the governing body, legal services from
4199 an outside attorney;
4200 (b) with the consent of the elected auditor and the governing body, accounting or
4201 auditing services from an outside accountant or auditor; or

4202 (c) an opinion of an outside attorney or accountant that is necessary for the issuance of
4203 the local building authority's bonds.
4204 (4) If fees for legal, accounting, or auditing services related to a project are paid by the
4205 creating local entity and not reimbursed by the local building authority, the local building
4206 authority may not include the cost of those services in the amount the local building authority
4207 charges under a lease agreement with the creating local entity with respect to that project.
4208 Section 103. Section 17D-2-203 is enacted to read:
4209 17D-2-203. Local building authority board of directors.
4210 (1) Except as provided in Subsection (3), the members of the governing body of the
4211 creating local entity constitute the authority board of the local building authority created by the
4212 creating local entity.
4213 (2) An authority board may be referred to as a board of trustees.
4214 (3) (a) For a local building authority whose creating local entity is a county that
4215 operates under the county commission form of government under Section 17-52-501 , two
4216 members of the authority board may appoint an elected officer of the county to serve
4217 temporarily as a member of the authority board if the other authority board member:
4218 (i) is, as a member of the county commission, placed on paid administrative leave under
4219 Section 17-16-10.5 ;
4220 (ii) is unable to serve due to a disability;
4221 (iii) has a conflict of interest with respect to a matter before the authority board that
4222 disqualifies the authority board member or causes the member to abstain from participating in
4223 action on that matter; or
4224 (iv) is unable for any other reason to serve temporarily on the authority board or to
4225 participate in a matter before the board.
4226 (b) An elected county officer appointed to an authority board under Subsection (3)(a)
4227 may serve only until the condition under Subsection (3)(a)(i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) causing the need
4228 for the appointment is no longer present.
4229 Section 104. Section 17D-2-301 is enacted to read:

4230 Part 3. Local Building Authority Projects
4231 17D-2-301. Project plans and specifications.
4232 Each local building authority that proposes to construct, acquire, improve, or extend a
4233 project for the use of its creating local entity shall submit to the governing body of the creating
4234 local entity:
4235 (1) plans and specifications for the project; and
4236 (2) the estimated project costs.
4237 Section 105. Section 17D-2-302 is enacted to read:
4238 17D-2-302. Architect or engineer certificate -- Approval of plans and
4239 specifications.
4240 (1) The plans and specifications submitted under Subsection 17D-3-301 (1) shall include
4241 a certificate of the architect or engineer responsible for planning and designing the project,
4242 stating the estimated useful life of the project.
4243 (2) The creating local entity's governing body shall approve the plans, specifications,
4244 and estimated project costs before:
4245 (a) execution of a lease agreement with respect to the project; and
4246 (b) the local building authority begins to construct, acquire, improve, or extend the
4247 project.
4248 Section 106. Section 17D-2-401 is enacted to read:
4249 Part 4. Local Building Authority Lease Agreements
4250 17D-2-401. Project lease agreements.
4251 (1) A local building authority and its creating local entity may enter into a lease
4252 agreement with respect to a project that the local building authority:
4253 (a) has constructed, acquired, improved, or extended on behalf of the creating local
4254 entity; or
4255 (b) will construct, acquire, improve, or extend on behalf of the creating local entity.
4256 (2) (a) A local building authority and its creating local entity may enter into a lease
4257 agreement before the local building authority's acquisition of a site or construction of the

4258 project.
4259 (b) Each lease agreement described in Subsection (2)(a) shall:
4260 (i) provide that the creating local entity is not required to make a lease payment until
4261 acquisition or construction of the project is completed; and
4262 (ii) require the local building authority to furnish or cause the construction contractor to
4263 furnish a bond satisfactory to the creating local entity, conditioned upon:
4264 (A) final completion of the project as expeditiously as reasonably possible from the date
4265 of the execution of the lease agreement; and
4266 (B) delivery of possession of the project to the creating local entity free and clear of all
4267 liens and encumbrances, except:
4268 (I) taxes, liens, and encumbrances on the local building authority's interest in the leased
4269 property; and
4270 (II) easements and restrictions that the creating local entity accepts.
4271 Section 107. Section 17D-2-402 is enacted to read:
4272 17D-2-402. Requirements for lease agreements.
4273 (1) Each lease agreement between a local building authority and its creating local entity
4274 shall:
4275 (a) provide for the payment of lease payments sufficient:
4276 (i) to pay:
4277 (A) the principal of and interest on local building authority bonds the proceeds of which
4278 were used to construct, acquire, improve, or extend the project;
4279 (B) all fees and expenses of trustees and paying agents for bonds described in
4280 Subsection (1)(a)(i)(A); and
4281 (C) all costs of maintaining and operating the project; and
4282 (ii) to accumulate any reasonable reserve that the local building authority considers
4283 necessary;
4284 (b) provide that the creating local entity, if not in default under the lease agreement,
4285 may:

4286 (i) subject to Subsection (2), renew the lease for a fixed term beyond the initial term by
4287 giving specified notice before the expiration of the initial term; and
4288 (ii) subject to Subsection (3) and the terms of the lease agreement, purchase the leased
4289 property on a date fixed in the agreement;
4290 (c) provide that a creating local entity under the lease agreement is not under any
4291 obligation:
4292 (i) to purchase the leased property; or
4293 (ii) to a creditor, shareholder, or security holder of the local building authority; and
4294 (d) require that:
4295 (i) title to the project vest in the creating local entity upon payment in full of all
4296 outstanding local building authority bonds issued to construct, acquire, improve, or extend a
4297 project; and
4298 (ii) any remaining assets and net earnings of the local building authority be paid to the
4299 creating local entity upon dissolution of the local building authority, as provided in Section
4300 17D-2-702 .
4301 (2) The term of a lease agreement under this part, including any renewal of the lease
4302 agreement, may not exceed the lesser of:
4303 (a) the estimated useful life of the project, as certified under Subsection 17D-2-302 (1);
4304 and
4305 (b) 40 years.
4306 (3) The purchase price of leased property under Subsection (1)(b)(ii) may not exceed
4307 the project costs that the local building authority actually invested in the project.
4308 Section 108. Section 17D-2-403 is enacted to read:
4309 17D-2-403. Provisions that a lease agreement may contain.
4310 (1) A lease agreement between a local building authority and its creating local entity
4311 may:
4312 (a) provide that the creating local entity, as part of the lease payments for the leased
4313 property:

4314 (i) pay all taxes and assessments levied against or on account of the leased property or
4315 rentals from it;
4316 (ii) maintain insurance on the leased property for the benefit of the local building
4317 authority and the holders of the local building authority's bonds; and
4318 (iii) assume all responsibility for any repair, replacement, alteration, or improvement to
4319 the leased property during the term of the lease agreement; and
4320 (b) authorize the local entity to sublease all or specified portions of a project to:
4321 (i) the state;
4322 (ii) another local entity; or
4323 (iii) a private party, including a nonprofit corporation, if the local building authority or
4324 local entity:
4325 (A) intends to own the project throughout the useful life of the project; and
4326 (B) determines that the local building authority or local entity's ownership of the project
4327 furthers a legitimate public purpose.
4328 (2) A local entity that subleases some or all of a project under Subsection (1)(b)
4329 continues to be responsible for lease payments due under the lease agreement with the local
4330 building authority.
4331 Section 109. Section 17D-2-404 is enacted to read:
4332 17D-2-404. Lease of local entity's site to local building authority.
4333 (1) A local entity desiring to have a local building authority construct a project for the
4334 use of the local entity upon a site that the local entity owns may lease the site to the local
4335 building authority for a nominal rental.
4336 (2) Each lease under Subsection (1) shall grant the local building authority an option to
4337 renew the lease on the same terms and conditions if, by the time of the expiration of the lease,
4338 the local building authority has not been fully repaid the project costs it actually invested in the
4339 project.
4340 (3) A lease under this section, including any renewal of the lease under Subsection (2),
4341 may not exceed the period specified in Subsection 17D-2-402 (2).

4342 (4) (a) As used in this Subsection (4):
4343 (i) "Project lease agreement" means a lease agreement between a local building
4344 authority and its creating local entity under which the local building authority leases to the
4345 creating local entity a project constructed on a site owned by the creating local entity.
4346 (ii) "Site lease" means a creating local entity's lease of a site to a local building
4347 authority.
4348 (b) A local entity that has entered into a site lease with a local building authority may
4349 grant the local building authority an option to purchase the site within six months after the
4350 termination of the creating local entity's lease payment obligation under the project lease
4351 agreement, to be exercised if the creating local entity under the project lease agreement:
4352 (i) defaults under the terms of the project lease agreement; and
4353 (ii) does not exercise its option to purchase the project under the terms of the project
4354 lease agreement.
4355 Section 110. Section 17D-2-405 is enacted to read:
4356 17D-2-405. Default under a lease agreement.
4357 If a local entity fails to pay a lease payment due to a local building authority under a
4358 lease agreement:
4359 (1) the local entity shall immediately quit and vacate the project;
4360 (2) the local entity's lease payment obligation under the lease agreement terminates; and
4361 (3) the local building authority may immediately lease the project according to the
4362 provisions of:
4363 (a) the proceeding under which bonds to fund the project were authorized; and
4364 (b) any mortgage given to secure the bonds.
4365 Section 111. Section 17D-2-501 is enacted to read:
4366 Part 5. Local Building Authority Bonds
4367 17D-2-501. Provisions applicable to issuance of local building authority bonds.
4368 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter:
4369 (1) each local building authority that issues bonds shall:

4370 (a) issue them as provided in Title 11, Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act,
4371 except Section 11-14-306 ; and
4372 (b) receive the benefits of Title 11, Chapter 30, Utah Bond Validation Act;
4373 (2) bonds issued by a local building authority are governed by and subject to Title 11,
4374 Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act, except Sections 11-14-306 and 11-14-403 ; and
4375 (3) each local building authority that issues refunding bonds shall issue them as
4376 provided in Title 11, Chapter 27, Utah Refunding Bond Act.
4377 Section 112. Section 17D-2-502 is enacted to read:
4378 17D-2-502. Required process for issuance of local building authority bonds.
4379 (1) A local building authority may not issue bonds unless the creating local entity's
4380 governing body approves the issuance and terms of the bonds.
4381 (2) (a) Before issuing bonds, the authority board of a local building authority shall give
4382 public notice of the authority board's intent to issue bonds.
4383 (b) (i) A local building authority may not issue bonds without the approval of the
4384 creating local entity's voters if, within 30 days after the notice under Subsection (2)(a) is given,
4385 a written petition requesting an election is filed with the local building authority, signed by at
4386 least 20% of the active voters, as defined in Section 20A-1-102 , within the creating local entity.
4387 (ii) Each election under Subsection (2)(b)(i) shall be held as provided in Title 11,
4388 Chapter 14, Local Government Bonding Act, in the same manner as an election for general
4389 obligation bonds issued by the creating local entity.
4390 Section 113. Section 17D-2-503 is enacted to read:
4391 17D-2-503. Proceedings for the issuance of local building authority bonds.
4392 The proceeding under which a local building authority is authorized to issue bonds under
4393 this part may:
4394 (1) contain any agreement or provision customarily contained in an instrument securing
4395 bonds, including a provision regarding:
4396 (a) the fixing and collection of lease payments for a project covered by the bond
4397 proceeding;

4398 (b) the terms to be incorporated in the lease agreement with respect to the project;
4399 (c) the operation, maintenance, and insurance of the project;
4400 (d) the creation and maintenance of a reserve fund from the proceeds of the sale of
4401 bonds or from lease payment revenue; and
4402 (e) any rights and remedies available to the holders of the bonds or to the trustee, in the
4403 event of a default, that the authority board of the local building authority determines in
4404 accordance with this part;
4405 (2) provide for the appointment of a trust company or bank, located inside or outside
4406 the state, as trustee; and
4407 (3) provide that upon default in the payment of the principal of or interest on the bonds
4408 or in the performance of any covenant or agreement contained in the proceedings, the payment
4409 or performance may be enforced by the appointment of a receiver for the project, with power:
4410 (a) to rent or lease some or all of the property;
4411 (b) to charge and collect rent; and
4412 (c) to apply revenue from the project in accordance with the bond proceeding.
4413 Section 114. Section 17D-2-504 is enacted to read:
4414 17D-2-504. Local building authority bonds payable solely from lease payments.
4415 (1) Except to the extent that they are secured as provided in Section 17D-2-505 , bonds
4416 issued by a local building authority and interest on the bonds are payable solely from payments
4417 received under a lease agreement with the creating local entity with respect to the project that
4418 was financed with the bond proceeds.
4419 (2) Each bond issued by a local building authority shall recite on its face that the bond is
4420 payable as provided in Subsection (1).
4421 Section 115. Section 17D-2-505 is enacted to read:
4422 17D-2-505. Security for local building authority bonds.
4423 (1) The principal of and interest on bonds that a local building authority issues under
4424 this part:
4425 (a) shall be secured by a pledge and assignment of the revenue that the local building

4426 authority receives under its lease agreement with respect to the project that was financed with
4427 the bond proceeds;
4428 (b) may be secured by:
4429 (i) a mortgage covering some or all of the project;
4430 (ii) a pledge and assignment of the lease agreement for that project;
4431 (iii) money held in a reserve fund; and
4432 (iv) any other security device with respect to the project that the local building authority
4433 considers most advantageous.
4434 (2) A proceeding under which a mortgage is given to secure the bonds of a local
4435 building authority may contain any agreement or provision listed in Section 17D-2-503 that
4436 could be contained in a proceeding under which a local building authority is authorized to issue
4437 bonds under this part.
4438 (3) A mortgage to secure bonds issued by a local building authority under this part may
4439 provide that:
4440 (a) upon default in its payment or the violation of any covenant or agreement contained
4441 in the mortgage, the mortgage may be foreclosed in the manner permitted by law; and
4442 (b) the trustee or holder of any bond secured by the mortgage may become the
4443 purchaser at a foreclosure sale, if the trustee or holder is the highest bidder.
4444 Section 116. Section 17D-2-506 is enacted to read:
4445 17D-2-506. Other entities not responsible for local building authority bonds or
4446 breach of mortgage and other obligations.
4447 (1) Nothing in this part may be construed to require:
4448 (a) the state or any political subdivision of the state to pay a bond issued under this part;
4449 (b) the state or, except the creating local entity, any political subdivision of the state to
4450 pay any rent or lease payment due to a local building authority under the terms of a lease
4451 agreement; or
4452 (c) the creating local entity to appropriate money to pay:
4453 (i) principal of or interest on bonds issued by a local building authority; or

4454 (ii) the lease payments under a lease agreement with the local building authority.
4455 (2) A breach of a mortgage or a covenant or agreement in a mortgage may not impose a
4456 general obligation or liability upon or a charge against:
4457 (a) the creating local entity;
4458 (b) the general credit or taxing power of the state or any political subdivision of the
4459 state.
4460 Section 117. Section 17D-2-507 is enacted to read:
4461 17D-2-507. Required provision in device securing payment of bonds.
4462 Each mortgage, trust deed, security agreement, trust indenture, or other security device
4463 securing payment of bonds issued under this part shall provide that no deficiency judgment upon
4464 foreclosure may be entered against:
4465 (1) the local building authority;
4466 (2) the state; or
4467 (3) any political subdivision of the state.
4468 Section 118. Section 17D-2-601 is enacted to read:
4469 Part 6. Contesting a Resolution or Proceeding
4470 17D-2-601. Publishing notice of local entity or local building authority resolution
4471 or other proceeding.
4472 (1) The governing body of a local entity or the authority board of a local building
4473 authority may provide for the publication of a resolution or other proceeding adopted under this
4474 chapter by the governing body or authority board, respectively, in a newspaper of general
4475 circulation in the local entity.
4476 (2) (a) If the resolution or other proceeding provides for the local building authority's
4477 issuance of bonds, the authority board may, in lieu of publishing the entire resolution or other
4478 proceeding, publish a notice of the bonds to be issued.
4479 (b) Each notice under Subsection (2)(a) shall comply with the requirements of
4480 Subsection 11-14-316 (2).
4481 (c) The authority board of a local building authority publishing a notice under

4482 Subsection (2)(a) shall make a copy of the resolution or other proceeding authorizing the
4483 issuance of the local building authority bonds available for public inspection during regular
4484 business hours at the office of the local building authority for a period of at least 30 days after
4485 publication of the notice.
4486 Section 119. Section 17D-2-602 is enacted to read:
4487 17D-2-602. Contesting the legality of a resolution or other proceeding -- No cause
4488 of action after contest period.
4489 (1) For a period of 30 days after publication of a resolution or other proceeding under
4490 Subsection 17D-1-601 (1) or a notice under Subsection 17D-1-601 (2), any person in interest
4491 may file an action in district court contesting the regularity, formality, or legality of:
4492 (a) a resolution or other proceeding;
4493 (b) any bonds or a lease agreement authorized by a resolution or other proceeding; or
4494 (c) any provision made for the security or payment of local building authority bonds or
4495 lease agreement.
4496 (2) After the period referred to in Subsection (1), no one may have a cause of action to
4497 contest for any reason the regularity, formality, or legality of any of the matters listed in
4498 Subsection (1).
4499 Section 120. Section 17D-2-701 is enacted to read:
4500 Part 7. Dissolution of Local Building Authority
4501 17D-2-701. Local entity governing body may dissolve local building authority --
4502 Limitation.
4503 (1) Subject to Subsection (2), the governing body of the creating local entity may at any
4504 time dissolve a local building authority created by the creating local entity, by following the
4505 procedures in Title 16, Chapter 6a, Utah Revised Nonprofit Corporation Act, for the dissolution
4506 of a nonprofit corporation.
4507 (2) A creating local entity's governing body may not dissolve a local building authority
4508 unless:
4509 (a) (i) the principal, interest, and any redemption premium on all outstanding bonds of

4510 the local building authority are paid in full; and
4511 (ii) all other obligations of the local building authority are paid in full; or
4512 (b) the local building authority has made provision for the payment, when due, of all
4513 bond and other obligations described in Subsection (2)(a).
4514 Section 121. Section 17D-2-702 is enacted to read:
4515 17D-2-702. Effect of dissolution.
4516 Upon the dissolution of a local building authority:
4517 (1) title to all of the local building authority's projects vest in the creating local entity;
4518 and
4519 (2) all assets and net earnings of the local building authority remaining after the
4520 payment or providing for the payment of all local building authority bonds and other obligations
4521 shall be transferred to the creating local entity.
4522 Section 122. Section 17D-3-101 is enacted to read:
4523 CHAPTER 3. CONSERVATION DISTRICT ACT
4524 Part 1. General Provisions
4525 17D-3-101. Title.
4526 This chapter is known as the "Conservation District Act."
4527 Section 123. Section 17D-3-102 , which is renumbered from Section 17A-3-800 is
4528 renumbered and amended to read:
4529 [17A-3-800]. 17D-3-102. Definitions.
4530 As used in this chapter:
4531 (1) "Commission" means the Conservation Commission created [by] under Section
4532 4-18-4 .
4533 (2) "Conservation district" means a limited purpose local government entity, as
4534 described in Section 17D-3-103 , that operates under, is subject to, and has the powers set forth
4535 in this chapter.
4536 [(2)] (3) "Department" means the Department of Agriculture and Food created [in]
4537 under Section 4-2-1 .

4538 [(3) "District" means a conservation district created under this chapter.]
4539 Section 124. Section 17D-3-103 is enacted to read:
4540 17D-3-103. Conservation district status, authority, and duties.
4541 (1) A conservation district created under this chapter:
4542 (a) is a body corporate and politic;
4543 (b) is a political subdivision of the state; and
4544 (c) may sue and be sued.
4545 (2) (a) A conservation district may:
4546 (i) survey, investigate, and research soil erosion, floodwater, nonpoint source water
4547 pollution, flood control, water pollution, sediment damage, and watershed development;
4548 (ii) subject to Subsection (2)(b), devise and implement on state or private land a
4549 measure to prevent soil erosion, floodwater or sediment damage, nonpoint source water
4550 pollution, or other degradation of a watershed or of property affecting a watershed;
4551 (iii) subject to Subsection (2)(b), devise and implement a measure to conserve, develop,
4552 utilize, or dispose of water on state or private land;
4553 (iv) construct, improve, operate, and maintain a structure that the board of supervisors
4554 considers necessary or convenient for the conservation district to carry out its purposes under
4555 this chapter;
4556 (v) acquire property, real or personal, by purchase or otherwise, and maintain, improve,
4557 and administer that property consistent with the purposes of this chapter;
4558 (vi) enter into a contract in the name of the conservation district;
4559 (vii) receive money from:
4560 (A) a federal or state agency;
4561 (B) a county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state; or
4562 (C) a private source;
4563 (viii) subject to Subsection (2)(c), make recommendations governing land use within
4564 the conservation district, including:
4565 (A) the observance of particular methods of cultivation;

4566 (B) the use of specific crop programs and tillage practices;
4567 (C) the avoidance of tilling and cultivating highly erosive areas where erosion may not
4568 be adequately controlled if cultivated;
4569 (D) the construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check dams, dikes, ponds, or other
4570 structures; and
4571 (E) the development or restoration, or both, of range or forest lands or other natural
4572 resources, whether in private, state, or federal ownership;
4573 (ix) make recommendations for county and municipal land use authorities within the
4574 conservation district to consider with respect to land use applications and other development
4575 proposals;
4576 (x) employ clerical and other staff personnel, including legal staff, subject to available
4577 funds; and
4578 (xi) perform any other act that the board of supervisors considers necessary or
4579 convenient for the efficient and effective administration of the conservation district.
4580 (b) A conservation district's authority under Subsections (2)(a)(ii) and (iii) is subject to
4581 the consent of:
4582 (i) the land occupier; and
4583 (ii) in the case of school and institutional trust lands, as defined in Section 53C-1-103 ,
4584 the director of the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, in accordance with
4585 Sections 53C-1-102 and 53C-1-303 .
4586 (c) (i) Each recommendation under Subsection (2)(a)(viii) shall be uniform throughout
4587 the conservation district or, if the board of supervisors classifies land under Subsection
4588 (2)(c)(ii), throughout each land classification.
4589 (ii) The board of supervisors may uniformly classify land within the conservation district
4590 with respect to soil type, degree of slope, degree of threatened or existing erosion, cropping and
4591 tillage practices in use, or other relevant factors.
4592 (3) (a) Each conservation district shall annually submit to the commission, no later than
4593 the date that the commission prescribes:

4594 (i) a copy of the minutes of each conservation district meeting;
4595 (ii) a copy of the conservation district's annual work plan; and
4596 (iii) an accounting of the conservation district's financial affairs, as provided in
4597 Subsection (3)(b).
4598 (b) The accounting required under Subsection (3)(a)(iii) shall:
4599 (i) be prepared by a disinterested person; and
4600 (ii) show the conservation district's debits and credits, including accounts payable and
4601 accounts receivable, the purpose of each debit, the source of each credit, and the actual cash
4602 balance on hand.
4603 Section 125. Section 17D-3-104 is enacted to read:
4604 17D-3-104. District court jurisdiction.
4605 The district court in which a conservation district is located has jurisdiction to decide all
4606 cases and controversies involving the construction, application, or enforcement of land use
4607 ordinances within the conservation district.
4608 Section 126. Section 17D-3-201 is enacted to read:
4609 Part 2. Creation, Consolidation, Division, and Dissolution of Conservation Districts
4610 17D-3-201. Commission authority to approve the creation, consolidation, division,
4611 and dissolution of conservation districts -- Notice and hearing requirements.
4612 (1) As provided in this part, the commission may:
4613 (a) pursuant to a petition under Section 17D-3-202 , approve the creation of a
4614 conservation district; or
4615 (b) pursuant to a petition under Section 17D-3-202 or on its own motion, approve:
4616 (i) the consolidation of two or more existing conservation districts;
4617 (ii) the division of an existing conservation district into two or more conservation
4618 districts; or
4619 (iii) the dissolution of an existing conservation district.
4620 (2) Before taking an action authorized under Subsection (1), the commission shall:
4621 (a) cause notice of a hearing on the proposed creation, consolidation, division, or

4622 dissolution to be published:
4623 (i) no more than 30 days after, as the case may be:
4624 (A) the filing of a petition under Section 17D-3-202 , for a proposed creation,
4625 consolidation, division, or dissolution; or
4626 (B) adoption of the commission's own motion, for a proposed consolidation, division,
4627 or dissolution; and
4628 (ii) within:
4629 (A) for a proposed creation, the area of the proposed conservation district;
4630 (B) for a proposed consolidation, the area of each conservation district proposed to be
4631 consolidated; and
4632 (C) for a proposed division or dissolution, within the area of the conservation district
4633 proposed to be divided or dissolved; and
4634 (b) hold a public hearing on the desirability and necessity of the creation, consolidation,
4635 division, or dissolution.
4636 Section 127. Section 17D-3-202 is enacted to read:
4637 17D-3-202. Petition to create conservation district -- Petition or commission
4638 motion to consolidate, divide, or dissolve conservation districts -- Petition requirements.
4639 (1) A petition to create a conservation district, to consolidate two or more existing
4640 conservation districts, or to divide or dissolve an existing conservation district may be filed by
4641 25 or more land occupiers residing within:
4642 (a) for the proposed creation of a conservation district, the area included within the
4643 proposed conservation district;
4644 (b) for the proposed consolidation of existing conservation districts, the area included
4645 within the conservation districts proposed to be consolidated; or
4646 (c) for the proposed division or dissolution of an existing conservation district, the area
4647 included within the conservation district proposed to be divided or dissolved.
4648 (2) Each petition under Subsection (1) shall be:
4649 (a) in the form that the commission prescribes; and

4650 (b) filed with the commission.
4651 Section 128. Section 17D-3-203 is enacted to read:
4652 17D-3-203. Considerations in determining whether to approve conservation
4653 district creation, consolidation, division, or dissolution -- Denial or approval --
4654 Certification to lieutenant governor -- Prohibition against considering similar creation,
4655 consolidation, division, or dissolution if previously denied.
4656 (1) In determining whether to approve the creation of a conservation district, the
4657 consolidation of existing conservation districts, or the division or dissolution of an existing
4658 conservation district, the commission shall consider:
4659 (a) the demonstrated necessity and administrative practicality of the creation,
4660 consolidation, division, or dissolution;
4661 (b) the topography of and soil compositions and prevailing land use practices within the
4662 area of the proposed or existing conservation district or districts;
4663 (c) the hydrologic unit code of the watershed in which the area of the proposed or
4664 existing conservation district or districts is located;
4665 (d) the relationship of the area of the proposed or existing conservation district or
4666 districts to existing watersheds and agricultural regions; and
4667 (e) the sentiment expressed by persons within the area of the proposed or existing
4668 conservation district or districts with respect to the proposed creation, consolidation, division,
4669 or dissolution.
4670 (2) After holding a public hearing as required under Subsection 17D-3-201 (2)(b) and
4671 considering the factors listed in Subsection (1), the commission shall:
4672 (a) (i) deny the creation of a conservation district, the consolidation of existing
4673 conservation districts, or the division or dissolution of an existing conservation district, as the
4674 case may be, if the commission determines that creation, consolidation, division, or dissolution
4675 is not necessary or administratively practical; or
4676 (ii) approve the creation of a conservation district, the consolidation of existing
4677 conservation districts, or the division or dissolution of an existing conservation district, as the

4678 case may be, if the commission determines that creation, consolidation, division, or dissolution
4679 is necessary and administratively practical; and
4680 (b) set forth in writing the reasons for the commission's action.
4681 (3) (a) (i) If the commission approves the creation, consolidation, division, or
4682 dissolution, the commission shall certify its action and deliver a copy of the certification to the
4683 lieutenant governor.
4684 (ii) Each certification under Subsection (3)(a)(i) of a creation, consolidation, or division
4685 shall include an accurate legal description of the conservation district or districts as it or they are
4686 proposed to exist as a result of the creation, consolidation, or division.
4687 (b) Upon the lieutenant governor's issuance of the certificate of creation, consolidation,
4688 division, or dissolution under Section 67-1a-6.5 , as the case may be, the conservation district is
4689 created and incorporated, consolidated, divided, or dissolved, respectively.
4690 (4) If the commission denies a creation, consolidation, division, or dissolution under
4691 Subsection (2)(a)(i), the commission may not, for six months following the denial, consider a
4692 similar proposal to create, divide, or dissolve the conservation district or to consolidate the
4693 conservation districts, as the case may be.
4694 Section 129. Section 17D-3-204 is enacted to read:
4695 17D-3-204. Commission action if conservation districts are consolidated, divided,
4696 or dissolved.
4697 (1) If two or more conservation districts are consolidated, the commission shall merge
4698 the assets and liabilities of the conservation districts that have been consolidated into the
4699 conservation district resulting from the consolidation.
4700 (2) If a conservation district is divided, the commission shall equitably divide the assets
4701 and liabilities of the divided conservation district between the conservation districts resulting
4702 from the division.
4703 (3) If a conservation district is dissolved, the commission shall wind up the affairs of the
4704 dissolved conservation district.
4705 Section 130. Section 17D-3-301 is enacted to read:

4706 Part 3. Conservation District Board of Supervisors
4707 17D-3-301. Board of supervisors -- Number -- Term -- Chair and officers --
4708 Quorum -- Compensation.
4709 (1) Each conservation district shall be governed by a board of supervisors.
4710 (2) (a) The board of supervisors of a conservation district consists of five members
4711 elected as provided in this part, at least three of whom shall be private agricultural land
4712 operators.
4713 (b) If the board of supervisors divides the conservation district into watershed voting
4714 areas under Section 17D-3-308 , at least one member of the board of supervisors shall reside
4715 within each watershed voting area.
4716 (3) (a) The term of office of each member of a board of supervisors is four years.
4717 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(a), if multiple conservation districts are
4718 consolidated or a single conservation district divided or dissolved under Part 2, Creation,
4719 Consolidation, Division, and Dissolution of Conservation Districts:
4720 (i) the term of each member of the board of supervisors of the consolidated
4721 conservation districts or the divided or dissolved conservation district terminates immediately
4722 upon consolidation, division, or dissolution; and
4723 (ii) (A) the commission shall hold an election, as provided in this part, for all board of
4724 supervisors members of the consolidated conservation district or divided conservation districts,
4725 as the case may be; and
4726 (B) the term of the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes at an election
4727 under Subsection (3)(b)(ii)(A) shall be four years, and the term of the three candidates receiving
4728 the next highest number of votes shall be two years.
4729 (4) The board of supervisors shall elect a chair from among their number, and may elect
4730 other officers from among their number that the board considers necessary.
4731 (5) A majority of the board of supervisors constitutes a quorum for the transaction of
4732 board business, and action by a majority of a quorum present at a meeting of the board
4733 constitutes action of the board.

4734 (6) For performing official duties, each member of the board of supervisors of a
4735 conservation district shall receive:
4736 (a) compensation for travel and time, as fixed by the commission; and
4737 (b) actual and necessary expenses.
4738 Section 131. Section 17D-3-302 is enacted to read:
4739 17D-3-302. Board of supervisors members to be elected -- Candidates nominated
4740 by nominating committee or petition -- Candidate qualifications.
4741 (1) As provided in this part, each member of a board of supervisors of a conservation
4742 district shall be elected at large within the conservation district from candidates nominated by:
4743 (a) a nominating committee consisting of:
4744 (i) the chair of the commission or council of the county in which the conservation
4745 district is located;
4746 (ii) the chair of the USDA Farm Service Agency Committee of the county in which the
4747 conservation district is located;
4748 (iii) (A) the chair of the board of supervisors of the conservation district; or
4749 (B) the chair's designee, if the chair wishes to be a candidate for reelection;
4750 (iv) the agricultural extension service designated representative of the county in which
4751 the conservation district is located; or
4752 (b) petition under Section 17D-3-304 .
4753 (2) Each candidate for election to the board of supervisors of a conservation district
4754 shall be:
4755 (a) at least 18 years of age; and
4756 (b) a resident within the conservation district.
4757 Section 132. Section 17D-3-303 is enacted to read:
4758 17D-3-303. Nominating committee nomination of candidates for election to the
4759 board of supervisors.
4760 The nominating committee under Subsection 17D-3-302 (1)(a) shall:
4761 (1) nominate for each conservation district election a slate of candidates for election to

4762 the board of supervisors of the conservation district equal in number to at least one more than
4763 the number of board of supervisors members to be elected; and
4764 (2) submit the names of candidates to the commission no later than the date set by the
4765 commission as the close of nominations.
4766 Section 133. Section 17D-3-304 is enacted to read:
4767 17D-3-304. Petition to nominate candidates for election to the board of
4768 supervisors.
4769 (1) A person may be nominated to be a candidate for election as a member of a board of
4770 supervisors of a conservation district by a petition filed with the commission no later than the
4771 date set by the commission as the close of nominations.
4772 (2) Each petition under Subsection (1) shall:
4773 (a) state:
4774 (i) the candidate's name;
4775 (ii) that the candidate is at least 18 years of age; and
4776 (iii) that the candidate is a resident of the conservation district for which the election is
4777 to be held;
4778 (b) contain the signatures of at least six persons who reside and are registered voters
4779 within the conservation district; and
4780 (c) list the name, address, and voting precinct number of each person who signs the
4781 petition.
4782 Section 134. Section 17D-3-305 is enacted to read:
4783 17D-3-305. Setting the date of an election of the board of supervisors -- Notice of
4784 the election.
4785 (1) The commission shall:
4786 (a) set the date of the election of members of the board of supervisors of a conservation
4787 district; and
4788 (b) publish notice of the election in a newspaper or other media outlet method with
4789 general circulation within the conservation district.

4790 (2) The date set for an election under Subsection (1)(a) may not be later than six weeks
4791 after the date set by the commission for the close of nominations.
4792 (3) The notice required under Subsection (1)(b) shall:
4793 (a) state:
4794 (i) the date of the election;
4795 (ii) the names of all candidates; and
4796 (iii) that a ballot request form for the election may be obtained from the commission
4797 office or from any other place that the commission designates; and
4798 (b) specify the address of the commission office or other place where a ballot request
4799 form may be obtained.
4800 Section 135. Section 17D-3-306 is enacted to read:
4801 17D-3-306. Eligibility to vote in an election for board of supervisors members.
4802 A person is eligible to vote in an election of members of the board of supervisors of a
4803 conservation district if the person:
4804 (1) (a) is a registered voter; and
4805 (b) resides within the conservation district; or
4806 (2) (a) owns or operates private agricultural land in the conservation district; and
4807 (b) (i) requests a ballot; or
4808 (ii) has voted in one of the last two elections of the conservation district's board of
4809 supervisors members.
4810 Section 136. Section 17D-3-307 is enacted to read:
4811 17D-3-307. Supervisor's election mailing list.
4812 (1) The commission and department shall establish and maintain for each conservation
4813 district a supervisor's election mailing list that contains the name and mailing address of each
4814 person eligible to vote in an election of board of supervisors members.
4815 (2) Before each election of board of supervisors members and if requested by the
4816 nominating committee under Subsection 17D-3-302 (1), the commission shall deliver a copy of
4817 the supervisor's election mailing list to the nominating committee for the committee's review and

4818 approval.
4819 Section 137. Section 17D-3-308 is enacted to read:
4820 17D-3-308. Watershed voting areas.
4821 The board of supervisors of a conservation district may divide the conservation district
4822 into no more than three watershed voting areas.
4823 Section 138. Section 17D-3-309 is enacted to read:
4824 17D-3-309. Election of board of supervisors members -- Ballots -- Commission
4825 duties regarding elections -- Election expenses.
4826 (1) The commission and department shall conduct by mail each election of members of
4827 the board of supervisors of a conservation district.
4828 (2) (a) No later than five days before the date set for the election of board of
4829 supervisors members, the commission shall mail a ballot to each person listed on the supervisor's
4830 election mailing list under Section 17D-3-307 .
4831 (b) Each ballot shall:
4832 (i) contain:
4833 (A) the names of all nominees for board of supervisors members, listed in alphabetical
4834 order according to last name;
4835 (B) a place for the voter to indicate the person or persons for whom the voter is voting;
4836 and
4837 (C) instructions to the voter on how to mark the ballot to indicate the voter's vote; and
4838 (ii) specify the date after which the ballot will not be accepted for purposes of the
4839 election.
4840 (3) The candidates equal in number to the number of board of supervisors positions
4841 available and receiving the highest number of votes are elected as members of the board of
4842 supervisors and take office on the date set by the commission for their terms to begin.
4843 (4) The commission shall:
4844 (a) determine all questions of voter eligibility;
4845 (b) certify the count and tally of ballots and votes cast; and

4846 (c) declare and certify each board of supervisors member elected.
4847 (5) The department shall pay all expenses incident to an election of board of supervisors
4848 members.
4849 Section 139. Section 17D-3-310 is enacted to read:
4850 17D-3-310. Vacancies in the board of supervisors.
4851 If a vacancy occurs in the office of board of supervisors member, the remaining
4852 members of the board of supervisors shall appoint a person to fill the vacancy, to serve the
4853 remainder of the unexpired term of the member creating the vacancy.
4854 Section 140. Section 19-3-301 is amended to read:
4855 19-3-301. Restrictions on nuclear waste placement in state.
4856 (1) The placement, including transfer, storage, decay in storage, treatment, or disposal,
4857 within the exterior boundaries of Utah of high-level nuclear waste or greater than class C
4858 radioactive waste is prohibited.
4859 (2) Notwithstanding Subsection (1) the governor, after consultation with the county
4860 executive and county legislative body of the affected county and with concurrence of the
4861 Legislature, may specifically approve the placement as provided in this part, but only if:
4862 (a) (i) the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission issues a license, pursuant to the
4863 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, 42 U.S.C.A. 10101 et seq., or the Atomic Energy Act, 42 U.S.C.A.
4864 2011 et seq., for the placement within the exterior boundaries of Utah of high-level nuclear
4865 waste or greater than class C radioactive waste; and
4866 (ii) the authority of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to grant a license under
4867 Subsection (2)(a)(i) is clearly upheld by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; or
4868 (b) an agency of the federal government is transporting the waste, and all state and
4869 federal requirements to proceed with the transportation have been met.
4870 (3) The requirement for the approval of a final court of competent jurisdiction shall be
4871 met in all of the following categories, in order for a state license proceeding regarding waste to
4872 begin:
4873 (a) transfer or transportation, by rail, truck, or other mechanisms;

4874 (b) storage, including any temporary storage at a site away from the generating reactor;
4875 (c) decay in storage;
4876 (d) treatment; and
4877 (e) disposal.
4878 (4) (a) Upon satisfaction of the requirements of Subsection (2)(a), for each category
4879 listed in Subsection (3), or satisfaction of the requirements under Subsection (2)(b), the
4880 governor, with the concurrence of the attorney general, shall certify in writing to the executive
4881 director of the Department of Environmental Quality that all of the requirements have been met,
4882 and that any necessary state licensing processes may begin.
4883 (b) Separate certification under this Subsection (4) shall be given for each category in
4884 Subsection (3).
4885 (5) (a) The department shall make, by rule, a determination of the dollar amount of the
4886 health and economic costs expected to result from a reasonably foreseeable accidental release of
4887 waste involving a transfer facility or storage facility, or during transportation of waste, within
4888 the exterior boundaries of the state. The department may initiate rulemaking under this
4889 Subsection (5)(a) on or after March 15, 2001.
4890 (b) (i) The department shall also determine the dollar amount currently available to
4891 cover the costs as determined in Subsection (5)(a):
4892 (A) under nuclear industry self-insurance;
4893 (B) under federal insurance requirements; and
4894 (C) in federal monies.
4895 (ii) The department may not include any calculations of federal monies that may be
4896 appropriated in the future in determining the amount under Subsection (5)(b)(i).
4897 (c) The department shall use the information compiled under Subsections (5)(a) and (b)
4898 to determine the amount of unfunded potential liability in the event of a release of waste from a
4899 storage or transfer facility, or a release during the transportation of waste.
4900 (6) (a) State agencies may not, for the purpose of providing any goods, services, or
4901 municipal-type services to a storage facility or transfer facility, or to any organization engaged

4902 in the transportation of waste, enter into any contracts or any other agreements prior to:
4903 (i) the satisfaction of the conditions in Subsection (4); and
4904 (ii) the executive director of the department having certified that the requirements of
4905 Sections 19-3-304 through 19-3-308 have been met for the purposes of a license application
4906 proceeding for a storage facility or transfer facility.
4907 (b) Political subdivisions of the state may not enter into any contracts or any other
4908 agreements for the purpose of providing any goods, services, or municipal-type services to a
4909 storage facility or transfer facility, or to any organization engaged in the transportation of waste.
4910 (c) This Subsection (6) does not prohibit a state agency from exercising the regulatory
4911 authority granted to it by law.
4912 (7) (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any political subdivision may not be
4913 formed pursuant to the laws of Utah for the purpose of providing any goods, services, or
4914 municipal-type services to a storage facility or transfer facility prior to the satisfaction of the
4915 conditions in Subsection (4). These political subdivisions include:
4916 (i) a cooperative;
4917 (ii) a local district authorized by Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities
4918 - Local Districts;
4919 (iii) a special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1,
4920 Special Service District Act;
4921 (iv) a limited purpose local governmental entities authorized by Title 17, Counties;
4922 (v) any joint power agreement authorized by Title 11, Cities, Counties, and Local
4923 Taxing Units; and
4924 (vi) the formation of a municipality, or any authority of a municipality authorized by
4925 Title 10, Utah Municipal Code.
4926 (b) (i) Subsection (7)(a) shall be strictly interpreted. Any political subdivision
4927 authorized and formed under the laws of the state on or after March 15, 2001 which
4928 subsequently contracts to, or in any manner agrees to provide, or does provide goods, services,
4929 or municipal-type services to a storage facility or transfer facility is formed in violation of

4930 Subsection (7)(a).
4931 (ii) If the conditions of Subsection (7)(b)(i) apply, the persons who formed the political
4932 subdivision are considered to have knowingly violated a provision of this part, and the penalties
4933 of Section 19-3-312 apply.
4934 (8) (a) An organization may not be formed for the purpose of providing any goods,
4935 services, or municipal-type services to a storage facility or transfer facility prior to:
4936 (i) the satisfaction of the conditions in Subsection (4); and
4937 (ii) the executive director of the department having certified that the requirements of
4938 Sections 19-3-304 through 19-3-308 have been met.
4939 (b) A foreign organization may not be registered to do business in the state for the
4940 purpose of providing any goods, services, or municipal-type services to a storage facility or
4941 transfer facility prior to:
4942 (i) the satisfaction of the conditions in Subsection (4); and
4943 (ii) the executive director of the department having certified that the requirements of
4944 Sections 19-3-304 through 19-3-308 have been met.
4945 (c) The prohibitions of Subsections (8)(a) and (b) shall be strictly applied, and:
4946 (i) the formation of a new organization or registration of a foreign organization within
4947 the state, any of whose purposes are to provide goods, services, or municipal-type services to a
4948 storage facility or transfer facility may not be licensed or registered in the state, and the local or
4949 foreign organization is void and does not have authority to operate within the state;
4950 (ii) any organization which is formed or registered on or after March 15, 2001, and
4951 which subsequently contracts to, or in any manner agrees to provide, or does provide goods,
4952 services, or municipal-type services to a storage facility or transfer facility has been formed or
4953 registered in violation of Subsection (8)(a) or (b) respectively; and
4954 (iii) if the conditions of Subsection (8)(c)(ii) apply, the persons who formed the
4955 organization or the principals of the foreign organization, are considered to have knowingly
4956 violated a provision of this part, and are subject to the penalties in Section 19-3-312 .
4957 (9) (a) (i) Any contract or agreement to provide any goods, services, or municipal-type

4958 services to any organization engaging in, or attempting to engage in the placement of high-level
4959 nuclear waste or greater than class C radioactive waste at a storage facility or transfer facility
4960 within the state are declared to be against the greater public interest, health, and welfare of the
4961 state, by promoting an activity which has the great potential to cause extreme public harm.
4962 (ii) These contracts or agreements under Subsection (9)(a)(i), whether formal or
4963 informal, are declared to be void from inception, agreement, or execution as against public
4964 policy.
4965 (b) (i) Any contract or other agreement to provide goods, services, or municipal-type
4966 services to storage or transfer facilities may not be executed within the state.
4967 (ii) Any contract or other agreement, existing or executed on or after March 15, 2001,
4968 is considered void from the time of agreement or execution.
4969 (10) (a) All contracts and agreements under Subsection (10)(b) are assessed an annual
4970 transaction fee of 75% of the gross value of the contract to the party providing the goods,
4971 services, or municipal-type services to the storage facility or transfer facility or transportation
4972 entity. The fee shall be assessed per calendar year, and is payable on a prorated basis on or
4973 before the last day of each month in accordance with rules established under Subsection (10)(d),
4974 and as follows:
4975 (i) 25% of the gross value of the contract to the department; and
4976 (ii) 50% of the gross value of the contract to the Department of Community and
4977 Culture, to be used by the Utah Division of Indian Affairs as provided in Subsection (11).
4978 (b) Contracts and agreements subject to the fee under Subsection (10)(a) are those
4979 contracts and agreements to provide goods, services, or municipal-type services to a storage or
4980 transfer facility, or to any organization engaged in the transportation of high-level nuclear waste
4981 or greater than class C radioactive waste to a transfer facility or storage facility, and which:
4982 (i) are in existence on March 15, 2001; or
4983 (ii) become effective notwithstanding Subsection (9)(a).
4984 (c) Any governmental agency which regulates the charges to consumers for services
4985 provided by utilities or other organizations shall require the regulated utility or organization to

4986 include the fees under Subsection (10)(a) in the rates charged to the purchaser of the goods,
4987 services, or municipal-type services affected by Subsection (10)(b).
4988 (d) (i) The department, in consultation with the State Tax Commission, shall establish
4989 rules for the valuation of the contracts and assessment and collection of the fees, and other rules
4990 as necessary to determine the amount of and collection of the fee under Subsection (10)(a).
4991 The department may initiate rulemaking under this Subsection (10)(d)(i) on or after March 15,
4992 2001.
4993 (ii) Persons and organizations holding contracts affected by Subsection (10)(b) shall
4994 make a good faith estimate of the fee under Subsection (10)(a) for calendar year 2001, and
4995 remit that amount to the department on or before July 31, 2001.
4996 (11) (a) The portion of the fees imposed under Subsection (10) which is to be paid to
4997 the Department of Community and Culture for use by the Utah Division of Indian Affairs shall
4998 be used for establishment of a statewide community and economic development program for the
4999 tribes of Native American people within the exterior boundaries of the state who have by tribal
5000 procedure established a position rejecting siting of any nuclear waste facility on their reservation
5001 lands.
5002 (b) The program under Subsection (11)(a) shall include:
5003 (i) educational services and facilities;
5004 (ii) health care services and facilities;
5005 (iii) programs of economic development;
5006 (iv) utilities;
5007 (v) sewer;
5008 (vi) street lighting;
5009 (vii) roads and other infrastructure; and
5010 (viii) oversight and staff support for the program.
5011 (12) It is the intent of the Legislature that this part does not prohibit or interfere with a
5012 person's exercise of the rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United
5013 States or under Utah Constitution Article I, Sec. 15, by an organization attempting to site a

5014 storage facility or transfer facility within the borders of the state for the placement of high-level
5015 nuclear waste or greater than class C radioactive waste.
5016 Section 141. Section 19-6-502 is amended to read:
5017 19-6-502. Definitions.
5018 As used in this part:
5019 (1) "Governing body" means the governing board, commission, or council of a public
5020 entity.
5021 (2) "Jurisdiction" means the area within the incorporated limits of a municipality, special
5022 service district, municipal-type service district, service area, or all of the territorial area of a
5023 county not lying within a city or town.
5024 (3) "Long-term agreement" means an agreement or contract having a term of more than
5025 five years and less than 50 years.
5026 (4) "Public entity" means a county, municipality, special service district under Title
5027 [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, or service area under
5028 Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 9, Service Area Act and a municipal-type service district created
5029 under Title 17, Chapter 34, Municipal-type Services to Unincorporated Areas.
5030 (5) "Resource recovery" means the separation, extraction, recycling, or recovery of
5031 usable materials, energy, fuel, or heat from solid waste and the disposition of it.
5032 (6) "Short-term agreement" means any contract or agreement having a term of five
5033 years or less.
5034 (7) "Solid waste" means all putrescible and nonputrescible materials or substances
5035 discarded or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless, or in excess to the owner's needs at the
5036 time of discard or rejection, including garbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges
5037 from air or water control facilities, rubbish, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator
5038 residue, demolition, and construction debris, discarded automobiles and offal, but not including
5039 sewage and other highly diluted water carried materials or substances and those in gaseous
5040 form.
5041 (8) "Solid waste management" means the purposeful and systematic collection,

5042 transportation, storage, processing, recovery, and disposal of solid waste.
5043 (9) "Solid waste management facility" means any facility employed for solid waste
5044 management, including transfer stations, transport systems, baling facilities, landfills, processing
5045 systems, including resource recovery facilities or other facilities for reducing solid waste
5046 volume, plants and facilities for compacting, composting, or pyrolization of solid wastes,
5047 incinerators and other solid waste disposal, reduction, or conversion facilities, and facilities for
5048 resource recovery of energy consisting of:
5049 (a) facilities for the production, transmission, distribution, and sale of heat and steam;
5050 and
5051 (b) facilities for the generation and sale of electric energy to a public utility or
5052 municipality or other public entity which owns and operates an electric power system on March
5053 15, 1982, and for the generation, sale, and transmission of electric energy on an emergency
5054 basis only to a military installation of the United States; provided, that solid waste management
5055 facilities are not a public utility as defined in Section 54-2-1 .
5056 Section 142. Section 20A-1-102 is amended to read:
5057 20A-1-102. Definitions.
5058 As used in this title:
5059 (1) "Active voter" means a registered voter who has not been classified as an inactive
5060 voter by the county clerk.
5061 (2) "Automatic tabulating equipment" means apparatus that automatically examines and
5062 counts votes recorded on paper ballots or ballot sheets and tabulates the results.
5063 (3) "Ballot" means the storage medium, whether paper, mechanical, or electronic, upon
5064 which a voter records his votes and includes ballot sheets, paper ballots, electronic ballots, and
5065 secrecy envelopes.
5066 (4) "Ballot sheet":
5067 (a) means a ballot that:
5068 (i) consists of paper or a card where the voter's votes are marked or recorded; and
5069 (ii) can be counted using automatic tabulating equipment; and

5070 (b) includes punch card ballots, and other ballots that are machine-countable.
5071 (5) "Ballot label" means the cards, papers, booklet, pages, or other materials that
5072 contain the names of offices and candidates and statements of ballot propositions to be voted on
5073 and which are used in conjunction with ballot sheets that do not display that information.
5074 (6) "Ballot proposition" means opinion questions specifically authorized by the
5075 Legislature, constitutional amendments, initiatives, referenda, and judicial retention questions
5076 that are submitted to the voters for their approval or rejection.
5077 (7) "Board of canvassers" means the entities established by Sections 20A-4-301 and
5078 20A-4-306 to canvass election returns.
5079 (8) "Bond election" means an election held for the purpose of approving or rejecting the
5080 proposed issuance of bonds by a government entity.
5081 (9) "Book voter registration form" means voter registration forms contained in a bound
5082 book that are used by election officers and registration agents to register persons to vote.
5083 (10) "By-mail voter registration form" means a voter registration form designed to be
5084 completed by the voter and mailed to the election officer.
5085 (11) "Canvass" means the review of election returns and the official declaration of
5086 election results by the board of canvassers.
5087 (12) "Canvassing judge" means a poll worker designated to assist in counting ballots at
5088 the canvass.
5089 (13) "Convention" means the political party convention at which party officers and
5090 delegates are selected.
5091 (14) "Counting center" means one or more locations selected by the election officer in
5092 charge of the election for the automatic counting of ballots.
5093 (15) "Counting judge" means a poll worker designated to count the ballots during
5094 election day.
5095 (16) "Counting poll watcher" means a person selected as provided in Section
5096 20A-3-201 to witness the counting of ballots.
5097 (17) "Counting room" means a suitable and convenient private place or room,

5098 immediately adjoining the place where the election is being held, for use by the poll workers and
5099 counting judges to count ballots during election day.
5100 (18) "County executive" has the meaning as provided in Subsection 68-3-12 (2).
5101 (19) "County legislative body" has the meaning as provided in Subsection 68-3-12 (2).
5102 (20) "County officers" means those county officers that are required by law to be
5103 elected.
5104 (21) "Election" means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a
5105 statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal
5106 primary election, and a local district election.
5107 (22) "Election Assistance Commission" means the commission established by Public
5108 Law 107-252, the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
5109 (23) "Election cycle" means the period beginning on the first day persons are eligible to
5110 file declarations of candidacy and ending when the canvass is completed.
5111 (24) "Election judge" means a poll worker that is assigned to:
5112 (a) preside over other poll workers at a polling place;
5113 (b) act as the presiding election judge; or
5114 (c) serve as a canvassing judge, counting judge, or receiving judge.
5115 (25) "Election officer" means:
5116 (a) the lieutenant governor, for all statewide ballots;
5117 (b) the county clerk or clerks for all county ballots and for certain ballots and elections
5118 as provided in Section 20A-5-400.5 ;
5119 (c) the municipal clerk for all municipal ballots and for certain ballots and elections as
5120 provided in Section 20A-5-400.5 ;
5121 (d) the local district clerk or chief executive officer for certain ballots and elections as
5122 provided in Section 20A-5-400.5 ; and
5123 (e) the business administrator or superintendent of a school district for certain ballots or
5124 elections as provided in Section 20A-5-400.5 .
5125 (26) "Election official" means any election officer, election judge, or poll worker.

5126 (27) "Election results" means, for bond elections, the count of those votes cast for and
5127 against the bond proposition plus any or all of the election returns that the board of canvassers
5128 may request.
5129 (28) "Election returns" includes the pollbook, all affidavits of registration, the military
5130 and overseas absentee voter registration and voting certificates, one of the tally sheets, any
5131 unprocessed absentee ballots, all counted ballots, all excess ballots, all unused ballots, all spoiled
5132 ballots, the ballot disposition form, and the total votes cast form.
5133 (29) "Electronic ballot" means a ballot that is recorded using a direct electronic voting
5134 device or other voting device that records and stores ballot information by electronic means.
5135 (30) (a) "Electronic voting device" means a voting device that uses electronic ballots.
5136 (b) "Electronic voting device" includes a direct recording electronic voting device.
5137 (31) "Inactive voter" means a registered voter who has been sent the notice required by
5138 Section 20A-2-306 and who has failed to respond to that notice.
5139 (32) "Inspecting poll watcher" means a person selected as provided in this title to
5140 witness the receipt and safe deposit of voted and counted ballots.
5141 (33) "Judicial office" means the office filled by any judicial officer.
5142 (34) "Judicial officer" means any justice or judge of a court of record or any county
5143 court judge.
5144 (35) "Local district" means a local government entity under Title 17B, Limited Purpose
5145 Local Government Entities - Local Districts, and includes a special service district under Title
5146 [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act.
5147 (36) "Local district officers" means those local district officers that are required by law
5148 to be elected.
5149 (37) "Local election" means a regular municipal election, a local special election, a local
5150 district election, and a bond election.
5151 (38) "Local political subdivision" means a county, a municipality, a local district, or a
5152 local school district.
5153 (39) "Local special election" means a special election called by the governing body of a

5154 local political subdivision in which all registered voters of the local political subdivision may
5155 vote.
5156 (40) "Municipal executive" means:
5157 (a) the city council or town council in the traditional management arrangement
5158 established by Title 10, Chapter 3, Part 1, Governing Body;
5159 (b) the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government defined in Section
5160 10-3-101 ; and
5161 (c) the manager in the council-manager optional form of government defined in Section
5162 10-3-101 .
5163 (41) "Municipal general election" means the election held in municipalities and local
5164 districts on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered year for
5165 the purposes established in Section 20A-1-202 .
5166 (42) "Municipal legislative body" means:
5167 (a) the city council or town council in the traditional management arrangement
5168 established by Title 10, Chapter 3, Part 1, Governing Body;
5169 (b) the municipal council in the council-mayor optional form of government defined in
5170 Section 10-3-101 ; and
5171 (c) the municipal council in the council-manager optional form of government defined in
5172 Section 10-3-101 .
5173 (43) "Municipal officers" means those municipal officers that are required by law to be
5174 elected.
5175 (44) "Municipal primary election" means an election held to nominate candidates for
5176 municipal office.
5177 (45) "Official ballot" means the ballots distributed by the election officer to the poll
5178 workers to be given to voters to record their votes.
5179 (46) "Official endorsement" means:
5180 (a) the information on the ballot that identifies:
5181 (i) the ballot as an official ballot;

5182 (ii) the date of the election; and
5183 (iii) the facsimile signature of the election officer; and
5184 (b) the information on the ballot stub that identifies:
5185 (i) the poll worker's initials; and
5186 (ii) the ballot number.
5187 (47) "Official register" means the official record furnished to election officials by the
5188 election officer that contains the information required by Section 20A-5-401 .
5189 (48) "Paper ballot" means a paper that contains:
5190 (a) the names of offices and candidates and statements of ballot propositions to be
5191 voted on; and
5192 (b) spaces for the voter to record his vote for each office and for or against each ballot
5193 proposition.
5194 (49) "Political party" means an organization of registered voters that has qualified to
5195 participate in an election by meeting the requirements of Title 20A, Chapter 8, Political Party
5196 Formation and Procedures.
5197 (50) (a) "Poll worker" means a person assigned by an election official to assist with an
5198 election, voting, or counting votes.
5199 (b) "Poll worker" includes election judges.
5200 (c) "Poll worker" does not include a watcher.
5201 (51) "Pollbook" means a record of the names of voters in the order that they appear to
5202 cast votes.
5203 (52) "Polling place" means the building where voting is conducted.
5204 (53) "Position" means a square, circle, rectangle, or other geometric shape on a ballot in
5205 which the voter marks his choice.
5206 (54) "Provisional ballot" means a ballot voted provisionally by a person:
5207 (a) whose name is not listed on the official register at the polling place;
5208 (b) whose legal right to vote is challenged as provided in this title; or
5209 (c) whose identity was not sufficiently established by a poll worker.

5210 (55) "Provisional ballot envelope" means an envelope printed in the form required by
5211 Section 20A-6-105 that is used to identify provisional ballots and to provide information to
5212 verify a person's legal right to vote.
5213 (56) "Primary convention" means the political party conventions at which nominees for
5214 the regular primary election are selected.
5215 (57) "Protective counter" means a separate counter, which cannot be reset, that is built
5216 into a voting machine and records the total number of movements of the operating lever.
5217 (58) "Qualify" or "qualified" means to take the oath of office and begin performing the
5218 duties of the position for which the person was elected.
5219 (59) "Receiving judge" means the poll worker that checks the voter's name in the
5220 official register, provides the voter with a ballot, and removes the ballot stub from the ballot
5221 after the voter has voted.
5222 (60) "Registration form" means a book voter registration form and a by-mail voter
5223 registration form.
5224 (61) "Regular ballot" means a ballot that is not a provisional ballot.
5225 (62) "Regular general election" means the election held throughout the state on the first
5226 Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each even-numbered year for the purposes
5227 established in Section 20A-1-201 .
5228 (63) "Regular primary election" means the election on the fourth Tuesday of June of
5229 each even-numbered year, at which candidates of political parties and nonpolitical groups are
5230 voted for nomination.
5231 (64) "Resident" means a person who resides within a specific voting precinct in Utah.
5232 (65) "Sample ballot" means a mock ballot similar in form to the official ballot printed
5233 and distributed as provided in Section 20A-5-405 .
5234 (66) "Scratch vote" means to mark or punch the straight party ticket and then mark or
5235 punch the ballot for one or more candidates who are members of different political parties.
5236 (67) "Secrecy envelope" means the envelope given to a voter along with the ballot into
5237 which the voter places the ballot after he has voted it in order to preserve the secrecy of the

5238 voter's vote.
5239 (68) "Special election" means an election held as authorized by Section 20A-1-204 .
5240 (69) "Spoiled ballot" means each ballot that:
5241 (a) is spoiled by the voter;
5242 (b) is unable to be voted because it was spoiled by the printer or a poll worker; or
5243 (c) lacks the official endorsement.
5244 (70) "Statewide special election" means a special election called by the governor or the
5245 Legislature in which all registered voters in Utah may vote.
5246 (71) "Stub" means the detachable part of each ballot.
5247 (72) "Substitute ballots" means replacement ballots provided by an election officer to
5248 the poll workers when the official ballots are lost or stolen.
5249 (73) "Ticket" means each list of candidates for each political party or for each group of
5250 petitioners.
5251 (74) "Transfer case" means the sealed box used to transport voted ballots to the
5252 counting center.
5253 (75) "Vacancy" means the absence of a person to serve in any position created by
5254 statute, whether that absence occurs because of death, disability, disqualification, resignation, or
5255 other cause.
5256 (76) "Valid voter identification" means:
5257 (a) a form of identification that bears the name and photograph of the voter which may
5258 include:
5259 (i) a currently valid Utah driver license;
5260 (ii) a currently valid identification card that is issued by:
5261 (A) the state;
5262 (B) a local government within the state; or
5263 (C) a branch, department, or agency of the United States;
5264 (iii) an identification card that is issued by an employer for an employee;
5265 (iv) a currently valid identification card that is issued by a college, university, technical

5266 school, or professional school that is located within the state;
5267 (v) a currently valid Utah permit to carry a concealed weapon;
5268 (vi) a currently valid United States passport; or
5269 (vii) a valid tribal identification card; or
5270 (b) two forms of identification that bear the name of the voter and provide evidence that
5271 the voter resides in the voting precinct, which may include:
5272 (i) a voter identification card;
5273 (ii) a current utility bill or a legible copy thereof;
5274 (iii) a bank or other financial account statement, or a legible copy thereof;
5275 (iv) a certified birth certificate;
5276 (v) a valid Social Security card;
5277 (vi) a check issued by the state or the federal government or a legible copy thereof;
5278 (vii) a paycheck from the voter's employer, or a legible copy thereof;
5279 (viii) a currently valid Utah hunting or fishing license;
5280 (ix) a currently valid United States military identification card;
5281 (x) certified naturalization documentation;
5282 (xi) a currently valid license issued by an authorized agency of the United States;
5283 (xii) a certified copy of court records showing the voter's adoption or name change;
5284 (xiii) a Bureau of Indian Affairs card;
5285 (xiv) a tribal treaty card;
5286 (xv) a valid Medicaid card, Medicare card, or Electronic Benefits Transfer Card; or
5287 (xvi) a form of identification listed in Subsection (76)(a) that does not contain a
5288 photograph, but establishes the name of the voter and provides evidence that the voter resides in
5289 the voting precinct.
5290 (77) "Valid write-in candidate" means a candidate who has qualified as a write-in
5291 candidate by following the procedures and requirements of this title.
5292 (78) "Voter" means a person who meets the requirements for voting in an election,
5293 meets the requirements of election registration, is registered to vote, and is listed in the official

5294 register book.
5295 (79) "Voter registration deadline" means the registration deadline provided in Section
5296 20A-2-102.5 .
5297 (80) "Voting area" means the area within six feet of the voting booths, voting machines,
5298 and ballot box.
5299 (81) "Voting booth" means:
5300 (a) the space or compartment within a polling place that is provided for the preparation
5301 of ballots, including the voting machine enclosure or curtain; or
5302 (b) a voting device that is free standing.
5303 (82) "Voting device" means:
5304 (a) an apparatus in which ballot sheets are used in connection with a punch device for
5305 piercing the ballots by the voter;
5306 (b) a device for marking the ballots with ink or another substance;
5307 (c) an electronic voting device or other device used to make selections and cast a ballot
5308 electronically, or any component thereof;
5309 (d) an automated voting system under Section 20A-5-302 ; or
5310 (e) any other method for recording votes on ballots so that the ballot may be tabulated
5311 by means of automatic tabulating equipment.
5312 (83) "Voting machine" means a machine designed for the sole purpose of recording and
5313 tabulating votes cast by voters at an election.
5314 (84) "Voting poll watcher" means a person appointed as provided in this title to witness
5315 the distribution of ballots and the voting process.
5316 (85) "Voting precinct" means the smallest voting unit established as provided by law
5317 within which qualified voters vote at one polling place.
5318 (86) "Watcher" means a voting poll watcher, a counting poll watcher, an inspecting poll
5319 watcher, and a testing watcher.
5320 (87) "Western States Presidential Primary" means the election established in Title 20A,
5321 Chapter 9, Part 8.

5322 (88) "Write-in ballot" means a ballot containing any write-in votes.
5323 (89) "Write-in vote" means a vote cast for a person whose name is not printed on the
5324 ballot according to the procedures established in this title.
5325 Section 143. Section 20A-3-605 is enacted to read:
5326 20A-3-605. Inapplicability to local district and special service district elections.
5327 This part does not apply to an election of a board member of a local district.
5328 Section 144. Section 20A-11-1202 is amended to read:
5329 20A-11-1202. Definitions.
5330 As used in this chapter:
5331 (1) "Ballot proposition" means constitutional amendments, initiatives, referenda, judicial
5332 retention questions, opinion questions, bond approvals, or other questions submitted to the
5333 voters for their approval or rejection.
5334 (2) (a) "Commercial interlocal cooperation agency" means an interlocal cooperation
5335 agency that receives its revenues from conduct of its commercial operations.
5336 (b) "Commercial interlocal cooperation agency" does not mean an interlocal
5337 cooperation agency that receives some or all of its revenues from:
5338 (i) government appropriations;
5339 (ii) taxes;
5340 (iii) government fees imposed for regulatory or revenue raising purposes; or
5341 (iv) interest earned on public funds or other returns on investment of public funds.
5342 (3) "Expenditure" means:
5343 (a) a purchase, payment, donation, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, gift of money,
5344 or anything of value made for political purposes;
5345 (b) an express, legally enforceable contract, promise, or agreement to make any
5346 purchase, payment, donation, distribution, loan, advance, deposit, gift of money, or anything of
5347 value for political purposes;
5348 (c) a transfer of funds between a public entity and a candidate's personal campaign
5349 committee;

5350 (d) a transfer of funds between a public entity and a political issues committee; or
5351 (e) goods or services provided to or for the benefit of a candidate, a candidate's
5352 personal campaign committee, or a political issues committee for political purposes at less than
5353 fair market value.
5354 (4) "Governmental interlocal cooperation agency" means an interlocal cooperation
5355 agency that receives some or all of its revenues from:
5356 (a) government appropriations;
5357 (b) taxes;
5358 (c) government fees imposed for regulatory or revenue raising purposes; or
5359 (d) interest earned on public funds or other returns on investment of public funds.
5360 (5) (a) "Influence" means to campaign or advocate for or against a ballot proposition.
5361 (b) "Influence" does not mean providing a brief statement about a public entity's
5362 position on a ballot proposition and the reason for that position.
5363 (6) "Interlocal cooperation agency" means an entity created by interlocal agreement
5364 under the authority of Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act.
5365 (7) "Local district" means an entity under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
5366 Government Entities - Local Districts, and includes a special service district under Title [17A]
5367 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act.
5368 (8) (a) "Political issues committee" means an entity, or any group of individuals or
5369 entities within or outside this state, that solicits or receives contributions from any other person,
5370 group, or entity and makes expenditures from these contributions to influence, or to intend to
5371 influence, directly or indirectly, any person to assist in placing a ballot proposition on the ballot,
5372 to assist in keeping a ballot proposition off the ballot, or to refrain from voting or to vote for or
5373 to vote against any ballot proposition.
5374 (b) "Political issues committee" does not mean an entity that provides goods or services
5375 to an individual or committee in the regular course of its business at the same price that would
5376 be provided to the general public.
5377 (9) "Political purposes" means an act done with the intent or in a way to influence or

5378 intend to influence, directly or indirectly, any person to refrain from voting or to vote for or
5379 against any candidate for public office at any caucus, political convention, primary, or election.
5380 (10) (a) "Public entity" includes the state, each state agency, each county, municipality,
5381 school district, local district, governmental interlocal cooperation agency, and each
5382 administrative subunit of each of them.
5383 (b) "Public entity" does not include a commercial interlocal cooperation agency.
5384 (c) "Public entity" includes local health departments created under Title 26, Chapter 1,
5385 Local Health Departments.
5386 (11) (a) "Public funds" means any monies received by a public entity from
5387 appropriations, taxes, fees, interest, or other returns on investment.
5388 (b) "Public funds" does not include monies donated to a public entity by a person or
5389 entity.
5390 (12) (a) "Public official" means an elected or appointed member of government with
5391 authority to make or determine public policy.
5392 (b) "Public official" includes the person or group that:
5393 (i) has supervisory authority over the personnel and affairs of a public entity; and
5394 (ii) approves the expenditure of funds for the public entity.
5395 (13) (a) "State agency" means each department, commission, board, council, agency,
5396 institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory, library,
5397 unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the state.
5398 (b) "State agency" includes the legislative branch, the Board of Regents, the
5399 institutional councils of each higher education institution, and each higher education institution.
5400 Section 145. Section 26-8a-405.1 is amended to read:
5401 26-8a-405.1. Selection of provider by political subdivision.
5402 (1) For purposes of this section and Sections 26-8a-405.2 and 26-8a-405.3 :
5403 (a) "911 ambulance or paramedic services" means either 911 ambulance service, or 911
5404 paramedic service, or both and:
5405 (i) means a 911 call received by a designated dispatch center that receives 911 or E911

5406 calls; and
5407 (ii) does not mean a seven digit telephone call received directly by an ambulance
5408 provider licensed under this chapter.
5409 (b) "Governing body" means:
5410 (i) in the case of a municipality or county, the elected council, commission, or other
5411 legislative body that is vested with the legislative power of the municipality;
5412 (ii) in the case of a special service district, local service district, or county service area,
5413 each elected council, commission, or other legislative body that is vested with the legislative
5414 power of the municipalities or counties that are members of the district or service area; and
5415 (iii) in the case of a local district or special service district for fire protection or
5416 interlocal entity, the board or other body vested with the power to adopt, amend, and repeal
5417 rules, bylaws, policies, and procedures for the regulation of its affairs and the conduct of its
5418 business.
5419 (c) "Political subdivision" means:
5420 (i) a city or town located in a county of the first or second class as defined in Section
5421 17-50-501 ;
5422 (ii) a county of the first or second class;
5423 (iii) the following districts located in a county of the first or second class:
5424 (A) a special service district created under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah]
5425 1, Special Service District Act; and
5426 (B) a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local
5427 Districts, for the purpose of providing fire protection, paramedic, and emergency services; or
5428 (iv) areas coming together as described in Subsection 26-8a-405.2 (2)(b)(ii);
5429 (v) municipalities and counties joining together pursuant to Title 11, Chapter 13,
5430 Interlocal Cooperation Act; or
5431 (vi) a special service district for fire protection [as defined in Section 17A-2-1304 ]
5432 service under Subsection 17D-1-201 (9).
5433 (2) (a) Only an applicant approved under Section 26-8a-405 may respond to a request

5434 for a proposal for 911 ambulance or paramedic services issued in accordance with Section
5435 26-8a-405.2 by a political subdivision.
5436 (b) A response to a request for proposal is subject to the maximum rates established by
5437 the department under Section 26-8a-403 .
5438 (c) A political subdivision may award a contract to an applicant for the provision of 911
5439 ambulance or paramedic services:
5440 (i) in accordance with Section 26-8a-405.2 ; and
5441 (ii) subject to Subsection (3).
5442 (3) (a) The department shall issue a license to an applicant selected by a political
5443 subdivision under Subsection (2) unless the department finds that issuing a license to that
5444 applicant would jeopardize the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the geographic
5445 service area.
5446 (b) A license issued under this Subsection (3):
5447 (i) is for the exclusive geographic service area approved by the department in
5448 accordance with Subsection 26-8a-405.2 (2);
5449 (ii) is valid for four years;
5450 (iii) is not subject to a request for license from another applicant under the provisions of
5451 Sections 26-8a-406 through 26-8a-409 during the four-year term, unless the applicant's license
5452 is revoked under Section 26-8a-504 ; and
5453 (iv) is subject to supervision by the department under Sections 26-8a-503 and
5454 26-8a-504 .
5455 (4) Except as provided in Subsection 26-8a-405.3 (4)(a), the provisions of Sections
5456 26-8a-406 through 26-8a-409 do not apply to a license issued under this section.
5457 Section 146. Section 26-8a-405.2 is amended to read:
5458 26-8a-405.2. Selection of provider -- Request for competitive sealed proposal --
5459 Public convenience and necessity.
5460 (1) (a) A political subdivision may contract with an applicant approved under Section
5461 26-8a-404 to provide 911 ambulance or paramedic services for the geographic service area that

5462 is approved by the department in accordance with Subsection (2), if the political subdivision
5463 complies with the provisions of this section and Section 26-8a-405.3 .
5464 (b) The provisions of this section and Sections 26-8a-405.1 and 26-8a-405.3 do not
5465 require a political subdivision to issue a request for proposal for ambulance or paramedic
5466 services. If a political subdivision does not contract with an applicant in accordance with this
5467 section and Section 26-8a-405.3 , the provisions of Sections 26-8a-406 through 26-8a-409 apply
5468 to the issuance of a license for ambulance or paramedic services in the geographic service area
5469 that is within the boundaries of the political subdivision.
5470 (c) (i) For purposes of this Subsection (1)(c):
5471 (A) "Local district" [and "county service area" are defined in Subsection
5472 26-8a-405.1 (1)(b)(iii);] means a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
5473 Government Entities - Local Districts, that:
5474 (I) is located in a county of the first or second class; and
5475 (II) provides fire protection, paramedic, and emergency services.
5476 (B) "Participating municipality" means a city or town whose area is partly or entirely
5477 included within a county service area or local district[; and].
5478 (C) "Participating county" means a county whose unincorporated area is partly or
5479 entirely included within a [county service area or] local district.
5480 (ii) A participating municipality or participating county may contract with a provider for
5481 911 ambulance or paramedic service as provided in this section and Section 26-8a-405.3 .
5482 (iii) If the participating municipality or participating county contracts with a provider
5483 for 911 ambulance or paramedic services under this section and Section 26-8a-405.3 :
5484 (A) the [county service area or] local district is not obligated to provide the ambulance
5485 or paramedic services that are included in the contract between the participating municipality or
5486 the participating county and the 911 ambulance or paramedic provider;
5487 (B) the [county service area and] local district may impose taxes and obligations within
5488 the [county service area or] local district in the same manner as if the participating municipality
5489 or participating county were receiving all services offered by the local district [or county service

5490 area]; and
5491 (C) the participating municipality's and participating county's obligations to the local
5492 district [or county service area] are not diminished.
5493 (2) (a) The political subdivision shall submit the request for proposal and the exclusive
5494 geographic service area to be included in the request for proposal to the department for
5495 approval prior to issuing the request for proposal. The department shall approve the request for
5496 proposal and the exclusive geographic service area:
5497 (i) unless the geographic service area creates an orphaned area; and
5498 (ii) in accordance with Subsections (2)(b) and (c).
5499 (b) The exclusive geographic service area may:
5500 (i) include the entire geographic service area that is within the political subdivision's
5501 boundaries;
5502 (ii) include islands within or adjacent to other peripheral areas not included in the
5503 political subdivision that governs the geographic service area; or
5504 (iii) exclude portions of the geographic service area within the political subdivision's
5505 boundaries if another political subdivision or licensed provider agrees to include the excluded
5506 area within their license.
5507 (c) The proposed geographic service area for 911 ambulance or paramedic service must
5508 demonstrate that non-911 ambulance or paramedic service will be provided in the geographic
5509 service area, either by the current provider, the applicant, or some other method acceptable to
5510 the department. The department may consider the effect of the proposed geographic service
5511 area on the costs to the non-911 provider and that provider's ability to provide only non-911
5512 services in the proposed area.
5513 Section 147. Section 51-7-3 is amended to read:
5514 51-7-3. Definitions.
5515 As used in this chapter:
5516 (1) "Agent" means "agent" as defined in Section 61-1-13 .
5517 (2) "Certified dealer" means:

5518 (a) a primary reporting dealer recognized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
5519 who is certified by the director as having met the applicable criteria of council rule; or
5520 (b) a broker dealer who:
5521 (i) has and maintains an office and a resident registered principal in the state;
5522 (ii) meets the capital requirements established by council rules;
5523 (iii) meets the requirements for good standing established by council rule; and
5524 (iv) is certified by the director as meeting quality criteria established by council rule.
5525 (3) "Certified investment adviser" means a federal covered adviser, as defined in Section
5526 61-1-13 , or an investment adviser, as defined in Section 61-1-13 , who is certified by the director
5527 as having met the applicable criteria of council rule.
5528 (4) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of financial institutions.
5529 (5) "Council" means the State Money Management Council created by Section 51-7-16 .
5530 (6) "Director" means the director of the Utah State Division of Securities of the
5531 Department of Commerce.
5532 (7) (a) "Endowment funds" means gifts, devises, or bequests of property of any kind
5533 donated to a higher education institution from any source.
5534 (b) "Endowment funds" does not mean monies used for the general operation of a
5535 higher education institution that are received by the higher education institution from:
5536 (i) state appropriations;
5537 (ii) federal contracts;
5538 (iii) federal grants;
5539 (iv) private research grants; and
5540 (v) tuition and fees collected from students.
5541 (8) "First tier commercial paper" means commercial paper rated by at least two
5542 nationally recognized statistical rating organizations in the highest short-term rating category.
5543 (9) "Funds functioning as endowments" means funds, regardless of source, whose
5544 corpus is intended to be held in perpetuity by formal institutional designation according to the
5545 institution's policy for designating those funds.

5546 (10) "GASB" or "Governmental Accounting Standards Board" means the
5547 Governmental Accounting Standards Board that is responsible for accounting standards used by
5548 public entities.
5549 (11) "Hard put" means an unconditional sell-back provision or a redemption provision
5550 applicable at issue to a note or bond, allowing holders to sell their holdings back to the issuer or
5551 to an equal or higher-rated third party provider at specific intervals and specific prices
5552 determined at the time of issuance.
5553 (12) "Higher education institution" means the institutions specified in Section
5554 53B-1-102 .
5555 (13) "Investment adviser representative" means "investment adviser representative" as
5556 defined in Section 61-1-13 .
5557 (14) (a) "Investment agreement" means any written agreement that has specifically
5558 negotiated withdrawal or reinvestment provisions and a specifically negotiated interest rate.
5559 (b) "Investment agreement" includes any agreement to supply investments on one or
5560 more future dates.
5561 (15) "Local government" means a county, municipality, school district, local district
5562 under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, special service
5563 district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, or
5564 any other political subdivision of the state.
5565 (16) "Market value" means market value as defined in the Master Repurchase
5566 Agreement.
5567 (17) "Master Repurchase Agreement" means the current standard Master Repurchase
5568 Agreement approved by the Public Securities Association or by any successor organization.
5569 (18) "Maximum amount" means, with respect to qualified depositories, the total amount
5570 of:
5571 (a) deposits in excess of the federal deposit insurance limit; and
5572 (b) nonqualifying repurchase agreements.
5573 (19) "Money market mutual fund" means an open-end managed investment fund:

5574 (a) that complies with the diversification, quality, and maturity requirements of Rule
5575 2a-7 or any successor rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission applicable to money
5576 market mutual funds; and
5577 (b) that assesses no sales load on the purchase of shares and no contingent deferred
5578 sales charge or other similar charges, however designated.
5579 (20) "Nationally recognized statistical rating organization" means an organization that
5580 has been designated as a nationally recognized statistical rating organization by the Securities
5581 and Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation.
5582 (21) "Nonqualifying repurchase agreement" means a repurchase agreement evidencing
5583 indebtedness of a qualified depository arising from the transfer of obligations of the United
5584 States Treasury or other authorized investments to public treasurers that is:
5585 (a) evidenced by a safekeeping receipt issued by the qualified depository;
5586 (b) included in the depository's maximum amount of public funds; and
5587 (c) valued and maintained at market value plus an appropriate margin collateral
5588 requirement based upon the term of the agreement and the type of securities acquired.
5589 (22) "Operating funds" means current balances and other funds that are to be disbursed
5590 for operation of the state government or any of its boards, commissions, institutions,
5591 departments, divisions, agencies, or other similar instrumentalities, or any county, city, school
5592 district, political subdivision, or other public body.
5593 (23) "Permanent funds" means funds whose principal may not be expended, the
5594 earnings from which are to be used for purposes designated by law.
5595 (24) "Permitted depository" means any out-of-state financial institution that meets
5596 quality criteria established by rule of the council.
5597 (25) "Public funds" means monies, funds, and accounts, regardless of the source from
5598 which the monies, funds, and accounts are derived, that are owned, held, or administered by the
5599 state or any of its boards, commissions, institutions, departments, divisions, agencies, bureaus,
5600 laboratories, or other similar instrumentalities, or any county, city, school district, political
5601 subdivision, or other public body.

5602 (26) (a) "Public monies" means "public funds."
5603 (b) "Public monies," as used in Article VII, Sec. 15, Utah Constitution, means the same
5604 as "state funds."
5605 (27) "Public treasurer" includes the state treasurer and the official of any state board,
5606 commission, institution, department, division, agency, or other similar instrumentality, or of any
5607 county, city, school district, political subdivision, or other public body who has the
5608 responsibility for the safekeeping and investment of any public funds.
5609 (28) "Qualified depository" means a Utah depository institution or an out-of-state
5610 depository institution, as those terms are defined in Section 7-1-103 that is authorized to
5611 conduct business in this state under Section 7-1-702 or Title 7, Chapter 19, Acquisition of
5612 Failing Depository Institutions or Holding Companies, whose deposits are insured by an agency
5613 of the federal government and that has been certified by the commissioner of financial
5614 institutions as having met the requirements established under this chapter and the rules of the
5615 council to be eligible to receive deposits of public funds.
5616 (29) "Qualifying repurchase agreement" means a repurchase agreement evidencing
5617 indebtedness of a financial institution or government securities dealer acting as principal arising
5618 from the transfer of obligations of the United States Treasury or other authorized investments to
5619 public treasurers only if purchased securities are:
5620 (a) delivered to the public treasurer's safekeeping agent or custodian as contemplated by
5621 Section 7 of the Master Repurchase Agreement; and
5622 (b) valued and maintained at market value plus an appropriate margin collateral
5623 requirement based upon the term of the agreement and the type of securities acquired.
5624 (30) "Securities division" means Utah's Division of Securities created within the
5625 Department of Commerce by Section 13-1-2 .
5626 (31) "State funds" means:
5627 (a) public monies raised by operation of law for the support and operation of the state
5628 government; and
5629 (b) all other monies, funds, and accounts, regardless of the source from which the

5630 monies, funds, or accounts are derived, that are owned, held, or administered by the state or any
5631 of its boards, commissions, institutions, departments, divisions, agencies, bureaus, laboratories,
5632 or other similar instrumentalities.
5633 Section 148. Section 52-4-202 is amended to read:
5634 52-4-202. Public notice of meetings -- Emergency meetings.
5635 (1) A public body shall give not less than 24 hours public notice of each meeting
5636 including the meeting:
5637 (a) agenda;
5638 (b) date;
5639 (c) time; and
5640 (d) place.
5641 (2) (a) In addition to the requirements under Subsection (1), a public body which holds
5642 regular meetings that are scheduled in advance over the course of a year shall give public notice
5643 at least once each year of its annual meeting schedule as provided in this section.
5644 (b) The public notice under Subsection (2)(a) shall specify the date, time, and place of
5645 the scheduled meetings.
5646 (3) (a) Public notice shall be satisfied by:
5647 (i) posting written notice:
5648 (A) at the principal office of the public body, or if no principal office exists, at the
5649 building where the meeting is to be held; and
5650 (B) beginning April 1, 2008 and except as provided in Subsection (3)(b), on the Utah
5651 Public Notice Website created under Section 63F-1-701 ; and
5652 (ii) providing notice to:
5653 (A) at least one newspaper of general circulation within the geographic jurisdiction of
5654 the public body; or
5655 (B) a local media correspondent.
5656 (b) A public body of a municipality under Title 10, Utah Municipal Code, a local district
5657 under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or a special

5658 service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District
5659 Act, [or a dependent district under Title 17A, Chapter 3, Dependent Districts,] is encouraged,
5660 but not required, to post written notice on the Utah Public Notice Website, if the municipality
5661 or district has a current annual budget of less than $1 million.
5662 (c) A public body is in compliance with the provisions of Subsection (3)(a)(ii) by
5663 providing notice to a newspaper or local media correspondent under the provisions of
5664 Subsection 63F-1-701 (4)(d).
5665 (4) A public body is encouraged to develop and use additional electronic means to
5666 provide notice of its meetings under Subsection (3).
5667 (5) (a) The notice requirement of Subsection (1) may be disregarded if:
5668 (i) because of unforeseen circumstances it is necessary for a public body to hold an
5669 emergency meeting to consider matters of an emergency or urgent nature; and
5670 (ii) the public body gives the best notice practicable of:
5671 (A) the time and place of the emergency meeting; and
5672 (B) the topics to be considered at the emergency meeting.
5673 (b) An emergency meeting of a public body may not be held unless:
5674 (i) an attempt has been made to notify all the members of the public body; and
5675 (ii) a majority of the members of the public body approve the meeting.
5676 (6) (a) A public notice that is required to include an agenda under Subsection (1) shall
5677 provide reasonable specificity to notify the public as to the topics to be considered at the
5678 meeting. Each topic shall be listed under an agenda item on the meeting agenda.
5679 (b) Subject to the provisions of Subsection (6)(c), and at the discretion of the presiding
5680 member of the public body, a topic raised by the public may be discussed during an open
5681 meeting, even if the topic raised by the public was not included in the agenda or advance public
5682 notice for the meeting.
5683 (c) Except as provided in Subsection (5), relating to emergency meetings, a public body
5684 may not take final action on a topic in an open meeting unless the topic is:
5685 (i) listed under an agenda item as required by Subsection (6)(a); and

5686 (ii) included with the advance public notice required by this section.
5687 Section 149. Section 52-4-203 is amended to read:
5688 52-4-203. Minutes of open meetings -- Public records -- Recording of meetings.
5689 (1) Except as provided under Subsection (8), written minutes and a recording shall be
5690 kept of all open meetings.
5691 (2) Written minutes of an open meeting shall include:
5692 (a) the date, time, and place of the meeting;
5693 (b) the names of members present and absent;
5694 (c) the substance of all matters proposed, discussed, or decided by the public body
5695 which may include a summary of comments made by members of the public body;
5696 (d) a record, by individual member, of each vote taken by the public body;
5697 (e) the name of each person who is not a member of the public body, and upon
5698 recognition by the presiding member of the public body, provided testimony or comments to the
5699 public body;
5700 (f) the substance, in brief, of the testimony or comments provided by the public under
5701 Subsection (2)(e); and
5702 (g) any other information that any member requests be entered in the minutes or
5703 recording.
5704 (3) A recording of an open meeting shall:
5705 (a) be a complete and unedited record of all open portions of the meeting from the
5706 commencement of the meeting through adjournment of the meeting; and
5707 (b) be properly labeled or identified with the date, time, and place of the meeting.
5708 (4) (a) The minutes and recordings of an open meeting are public records and shall be
5709 available within a reasonable time after the meeting.
5710 (b) An open meeting record kept only by a recording must be converted to written
5711 minutes within a reasonable time upon request.
5712 (5) All or any part of an open meeting may be independently recorded by any person in
5713 attendance if the recording does not interfere with the conduct of the meeting.

5714 (6) Minutes or recordings of an open meeting that are required to be retained
5715 permanently shall be maintained in or converted to a format that meets long-term records
5716 storage requirements.
5717 (7) Written minutes and recordings of open meetings are public records under Title 63,
5718 Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act, but written minutes shall be the
5719 official record of action taken at the meeting.
5720 (8) Either written minutes or a recording shall be kept of:
5721 (a) an open meeting that is a site visit or a traveling tour, if no vote or action is taken by
5722 the public body; and
5723 (b) an open meeting of a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
5724 Government Entities - Local Districts, or special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter
5725 [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, if the district's annual budgeted expenditures
5726 for all funds, excluding capital expenditures and debt service, are $50,000 or less.
5727 Section 150. Section 53-2-502 is amended to read:
5728 53-2-502. Definitions.
5729 As used in this part:
5730 (1) "Committee" means the statewide mutual aid committee established in Section
5731 53-2-503 .
5732 (2) "Director" means the director of the division, appointed under Section 53-2-103 .
5733 (3) "Division" means the Division of Homeland Security, created under Section
5734 53-2-103 .
5735 (4) "Emergency responder":
5736 (a) means a person in the public or private sector:
5737 (i) who has special skills, qualification, training, knowledge, or experience, whether or
5738 not possessing a license, certificate, permit, or other official recognition for the skills,
5739 qualification, training, knowledge, or experience, that would benefit a participating political
5740 subdivision in responding to a locally declared emergency or in an authorized drill or exercise;
5741 and

5742 (ii) that a participating political subdivision requests or authorizes to assist in
5743 responding to a locally declared emergency or in an authorized drill or exercise; and
5744 (b) includes:
5745 (i) a law enforcement officer;
5746 (ii) a firefighter;
5747 (iii) an emergency medical services worker;
5748 (iv) a physician, nurse, or other public health worker;
5749 (v) an emergency management official;
5750 (vi) a public works worker;
5751 (vii) a building inspector;
5752 (viii) an architect, engineer, or other design professional; or
5753 (ix) a person with specialized equipment operations skills or training or with any other
5754 skills needed to provide aid in a declared emergency.
5755 (5) "Participating political subdivision" means each county, municipality, public safety
5756 district, and public safety interlocal entity that has not adopted a resolution under Section
5757 53-2-506 withdrawing itself from the statewide mutual aid system.
5758 (6) "Public safety interlocal entity" means an interlocal entity under Title 11, Chapter
5759 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, that provides public safety service.
5760 (7) "Public safety service" means a service provided to the public to protect life and
5761 property and includes fire protection, police protection, emergency medical service, and
5762 hazardous material response service.
5763 (8) "Public safety district" means a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose
5764 Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or special service district under Title [17A] 17D,
5765 Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, that provides public safety service.
5766 (9) "Requesting political subdivision" means a participating political subdivision that
5767 requests emergency assistance under Section 53-2-507 from one or more other participating
5768 political subdivisions.
5769 (10) "Responding political subdivision" means a participating political subdivision that

5770 responds to a request under Section 53-2-507 from a requesting political subdivision.
5771 (11) "Statewide mutual aid system" or "system" means the aggregate of all participating
5772 political subdivisions.
5773 Section 151. Section 53A-2-123 is amended to read:
5774 53A-2-123. Notice before preparing or amending a long-range plan or acquiring
5775 certain property.
5776 (1) As used in this section:
5777 (a) "Affected entity" means each county, municipality, local district under Title 17B,
5778 Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, special service district under Title
5779 [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, interlocal cooperation
5780 entity established under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, and specified public
5781 utility:
5782 (i) whose services or facilities are likely to require expansion or significant modification
5783 because of an intended use of land; or
5784 (ii) that has filed with the school district a copy of the general or long-range plan of the
5785 county, municipality, local district, special service district, school district, interlocal cooperation
5786 entity, or specified public utility.
5787 (b) "Specified public utility" means an electrical corporation, gas corporation, or
5788 telephone corporation, as those terms are defined in Section 54-2-1 .
5789 (2) (a) If a school district located in a county of the first or second class prepares a
5790 long-range plan regarding its facilities proposed for the future or amends an already existing
5791 long-range plan, the school district shall, before preparing a long-range plan or amendments to
5792 an existing long-range plan, provide written notice, as provided in this section, of its intent to
5793 prepare a long-range plan or to amend an existing long-range plan.
5794 (b) Each notice under Subsection (2)(a) shall:
5795 (i) indicate that the school district intends to prepare a long-range plan or to amend a
5796 long-range plan, as the case may be;
5797 (ii) describe or provide a map of the geographic area that will be affected by the

5798 long-range plan or amendments to a long-range plan;
5799 (iii) be sent to:
5800 (A) each county in whose unincorporated area and each municipality in whose
5801 boundaries is located the land on which the proposed long-range plan or amendments to a
5802 long-range plan are expected to indicate that the proposed facilities will be located;
5803 (B) each affected entity;
5804 (C) the Automated Geographic Reference Center created in Section 63F-1-506 ;
5805 (D) each association of governments, established pursuant to an interlocal agreement
5806 under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, of which a county or municipality
5807 described in Subsection (2)(b)(iii)(A) is a member; and
5808 (E) the state planning coordinator appointed under Section 63-38d-202 ;
5809 (iv) with respect to the notice to counties and municipalities described in Subsection
5810 (2)(b)(iii)(A) and affected entities, invite them to provide information for the school district to
5811 consider in the process of preparing, adopting, and implementing the long-range plan or
5812 amendments to a long-range plan concerning:
5813 (A) impacts that the use of land proposed in the proposed long-range plan or
5814 amendments to a long-range plan may have on the county, municipality, or affected entity; and
5815 (B) uses of land that the county, municipality, or affected entity is planning or
5816 considering that may conflict with the proposed long-range plan or amendments to a long-range
5817 plan; and
5818 (v) include the address of an Internet website, if the school district has one, and the
5819 name and telephone number of a person where more information can be obtained concerning the
5820 school district's proposed long-range plan or amendments to a long-range plan.
5821 (3) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(d), each school district intending to
5822 acquire real property in a county of the first or second class for the purpose of expanding the
5823 district's infrastructure or other facilities shall provide written notice, as provided in this
5824 Subsection (3), of its intent to acquire the property if the intended use of the property is
5825 contrary to:

5826 (i) the anticipated use of the property under the county or municipality's general plan; or
5827 (ii) the property's current zoning designation.
5828 (b) Each notice under Subsection (3)(a) shall:
5829 (i) indicate that the school district intends to acquire real property;
5830 (ii) identify the real property; and
5831 (iii) be sent to:
5832 (A) each county in whose unincorporated area and each municipality in whose
5833 boundaries the property is located; and
5834 (B) each affected entity.
5835 (c) A notice under this Subsection (3) is a protected record as provided in Subsection
5836 63-2-304 (7).
5837 (d) (i) The notice requirement of Subsection (3)(a) does not apply if the school district
5838 previously provided notice under Subsection (2) identifying the general location within the
5839 municipality or unincorporated part of the county where the property to be acquired is located.
5840 (ii) If a school district is not required to comply with the notice requirement of
5841 Subsection (3)(a) because of application of Subsection (3)(d)(i), the school district shall provide
5842 the notice specified in Subsection (3)(a) as soon as practicable after its acquisition of the real
5843 property.
5844 Section 152. Section 54-14-103 is amended to read:
5845 54-14-103. Definitions.
5846 As used in this chapter:
5847 (1) "Actual excess cost" means the difference in cost between:
5848 (a) the standard cost of a facility; and
5849 (b) the actual cost of the facility, including any necessary right-of-way, as determined in
5850 accordance with Section 54-14-203 .
5851 (2) "Board" means the Utility Facility Review Board.
5852 (3) "Commencement of construction of a facility" includes the project design and the
5853 ordering of materials necessary to construct the facility.

5854 (4) "Estimated excess cost" means any material difference in estimated cost between the
5855 costs of a facility, including any necessary right-of-way, if constructed in accordance with the
5856 requirements of a local government and the standard cost of the facility.
5857 (5) "Facility" means a transmission line, a substation, a gas pipeline, a tap, a measuring
5858 device, or a treatment device.
5859 (6) (a) "Gas pipeline" means equipment, material, and structures used to transport gas
5860 to the public utility's customers, including:
5861 (i) pipe;
5862 (ii) a compressor;
5863 (iii) a pressure regulator;
5864 (iv) a support structure; and
5865 (v) any other equipment or structure used to transport or facilitate transportation of gas
5866 through a pipe.
5867 (b) "Gas pipeline" does not include a service line.
5868 (7) "Local government":
5869 (a) means a city or town as defined in Section 10-1-104 or a county; or
5870 (b) may refer to one or more of the local governments in whose jurisdiction a facility is
5871 located if a facility is proposed to be located in more than one local government jurisdiction.
5872 (8) "Pay" includes, in reference to a local government paying the actual excess cost of a
5873 facility, payment by:
5874 (a) a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local
5875 Districts;
5876 (b) a special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1,
5877 Special Service District Act; or
5878 (c) a private entity other than the public utility pursuant to a regulation or decision of
5879 the local government.
5880 (9) (a) "Standard cost" means the estimated cost of a facility, including any necessary
5881 right-of-way, if constructed in accordance with:

5882 (i) the public utility's normal practices; and
5883 (ii) zoning, subdivision, and building code regulations of a local government, including
5884 siting, setback, screening, and landscaping requirements:
5885 (A) imposed on similar land uses in the same zone; and
5886 (B) that do not impair the ability of the public utility to provide service to its customers
5887 in a safe, reliable, adequate, and efficient manner.
5888 (b) With respect to a transmission line, "standard cost" is the cost of any overhead line
5889 constructed in accordance with the public utility's normal practices.
5890 (c) With respect to a facility of a gas corporation, "standard cost" is the cost of
5891 constructing the facility in accordance with the public utility's normal practices.
5892 (10) (a) "Substation" means a separate space within which electric supply equipment is
5893 located for the purpose of switching, regulating, transforming, or otherwise modifying the
5894 characteristics of electricity, including:
5895 (i) electrical equipment such as transformers, circuit breakers, voltage regulating
5896 equipment, buses, switches, capacitor banks, reactors, protection and control equipment, and
5897 other related equipment;
5898 (ii) the site at which the equipment is located, any foundations, support structures,
5899 buildings, or driveways necessary to locate, operate, and maintain the equipment at the site; and
5900 (iii) the structure intended to restrict access to the equipment to qualified persons.
5901 (b) "Substation" does not include a distribution pole-mounted or pad-mounted
5902 transformer that is used for the final transformation of power to the voltage level utilized by the
5903 customer.
5904 (11) "Transmission line" means an electrical line, including structures, equipment, plant,
5905 or fixtures associated with the electrical line, operated at a nominal voltage of 34,000 volts or
5906 above.
5907 Section 153. Section 59-2-102 is amended to read:
5908 59-2-102. Definitions.
5909 As used in this chapter and title:

5910 (1) "Aerial applicator" means aircraft or rotorcraft used exclusively for the purpose of
5911 engaging in dispensing activities directly affecting agriculture or horticulture with an
5912 airworthiness certificate from the Federal Aviation Administration certifying the aircraft or
5913 rotorcraft's use for agricultural and pest control purposes.
5914 (2) "Air charter service" means an air carrier operation which requires the customer to
5915 hire an entire aircraft rather than book passage in whatever capacity is available on a scheduled
5916 trip.
5917 (3) "Air contract service" means an air carrier operation available only to customers
5918 who engage the services of the carrier through a contractual agreement and excess capacity on
5919 any trip and is not available to the public at large.
5920 (4) "Aircraft" is as defined in Section 72-10-102 .
5921 (5) "Airline" means any air carrier operating interstate routes on a scheduled basis
5922 which offers to fly passengers or cargo on the basis of available capacity on regularly scheduled
5923 routes.
5924 (6) "Assessment roll" means a permanent record of the assessment of property as
5925 assessed by the county assessor and the commission and may be maintained manually or as a
5926 computerized file as a consolidated record or as multiple records by type, classification, or
5927 categories.
5928 (7) (a) "Certified revenue levy" means a property tax levy that provides the same
5929 amount of ad valorem property tax revenue as was collected for the prior year, plus new
5930 growth, but exclusive of revenue from collections from redemptions, interest, and penalties.
5931 (b) For purposes of this Subsection (7), "ad valorem property tax revenue" does not
5932 include property tax revenue received by a taxing entity from personal property that is:
5933 (i) assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3, County Assessment; and
5934 (ii) semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
5935 (8) "County-assessed commercial vehicle" means:
5936 (a) any commercial vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer which is not apportioned under
5937 Section 41-1a-301 and is not operated interstate to transport the vehicle owner's goods or

5938 property in furtherance of the owner's commercial enterprise;
5939 (b) any passenger vehicle owned by a business and used by its employees for
5940 transportation as a company car or vanpool vehicle; and
5941 (c) vehicles which are:
5942 (i) especially constructed for towing or wrecking, and which are not otherwise used to
5943 transport goods, merchandise, or people for compensation;
5944 (ii) used or licensed as taxicabs or limousines;
5945 (iii) used as rental passenger cars, travel trailers, or motor homes;
5946 (iv) used or licensed in this state for use as ambulances or hearses;
5947 (v) especially designed and used for garbage and rubbish collection; or
5948 (vi) used exclusively to transport students or their instructors to or from any private,
5949 public, or religious school or school activities.
5950 (9) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (9)(b), for purposes of Section 59-2-801 ,
5951 "designated tax area" means a tax area created by the overlapping boundaries of only the
5952 following taxing entities:
5953 (i) a county; and
5954 (ii) a school district.
5955 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (9)(a), "designated tax area" includes a tax area created
5956 by the overlapping boundaries of:
5957 (i) the taxing entities described in Subsection (9)(a); and
5958 (ii) (A) a city or town if the boundaries of the school district under Subsection (9)(a)
5959 and the boundaries of the city or town are identical; or
5960 (B) a special service district if the boundaries of the school district under Subsection
5961 (9)(a) are located entirely within the special service district.
5962 (10) "Eligible judgment" means a final and unappealable judgment or order under
5963 Section 59-2-1330 :
5964 (a) that became a final and unappealable judgment or order no more than 14 months
5965 prior to the day on which the notice required by Subsection 59-2-919 (4) is required to be

5966 mailed; and
5967 (b) for which a taxing entity's share of the final and unappealable judgment or order is
5968 greater than or equal to the lesser of:
5969 (i) $5,000; or
5970 (ii) 2.5% of the total ad valorem property taxes collected by the taxing entity in the
5971 previous fiscal year.
5972 (11) (a) "Escaped property" means any property, whether personal, land, or any
5973 improvements to the property, subject to taxation and is:
5974 (i) inadvertently omitted from the tax rolls, assigned to the incorrect parcel, or assessed
5975 to the wrong taxpayer by the assessing authority;
5976 (ii) undervalued or omitted from the tax rolls because of the failure of the taxpayer to
5977 comply with the reporting requirements of this chapter; or
5978 (iii) undervalued because of errors made by the assessing authority based upon
5979 incomplete or erroneous information furnished by the taxpayer.
5980 (b) Property which is undervalued because of the use of a different valuation
5981 methodology or because of a different application of the same valuation methodology is not
5982 "escaped property."
5983 (12) "Fair market value" means the amount at which property would change hands
5984 between a willing buyer and a willing seller, neither being under any compulsion to buy or sell
5985 and both having reasonable knowledge of the relevant facts. For purposes of taxation, "fair
5986 market value" shall be determined using the current zoning laws applicable to the property in
5987 question, except in cases where there is a reasonable probability of a change in the zoning laws
5988 affecting that property in the tax year in question and the change would have an appreciable
5989 influence upon the value.
5990 (13) "Farm machinery and equipment," for purposes of the exemption provided under
5991 Section 59-2-1101 , means tractors, milking equipment and storage and cooling facilities, feed
5992 handling equipment, irrigation equipment, harvesters, choppers, grain drills and planters, tillage
5993 tools, scales, combines, spreaders, sprayers, haying equipment, and any other machinery or

5994 equipment used primarily for agricultural purposes; but does not include vehicles required to be
5995 registered with the Motor Vehicle Division or vehicles or other equipment used for business
5996 purposes other than farming.
5997 (14) "Geothermal fluid" means water in any form at temperatures greater than 120
5998 degrees centigrade naturally present in a geothermal system.
5999 (15) "Geothermal resource" means:
6000 (a) the natural heat of the earth at temperatures greater than 120 degrees centigrade;
6001 and
6002 (b) the energy, in whatever form, including pressure, present in, resulting from, created
6003 by, or which may be extracted from that natural heat, directly or through a material medium.
6004 (16) (a) "Goodwill" means:
6005 (i) acquired goodwill that is reported as goodwill on the books and records:
6006 (A) of a taxpayer; and
6007 (B) that are maintained for financial reporting purposes; or
6008 (ii) the ability of a business to:
6009 (A) generate income:
6010 (I) that exceeds a normal rate of return on assets; and
6011 (II) resulting from a factor described in Subsection (16)(b); or
6012 (B) obtain an economic or competitive advantage resulting from a factor described in
6013 Subsection (16)(b).
6014 (b) The following factors apply to Subsection (16)(a)(ii):
6015 (i) superior management skills;
6016 (ii) reputation;
6017 (iii) customer relationships;
6018 (iv) patronage; or
6019 (v) a factor similar to Subsections (16)(b)(i) through (iv).
6020 (c) "Goodwill" does not include:
6021 (i) the intangible property described in Subsection (20)(a) or (b);

6022 (ii) locational attributes of real property, including:
6023 (A) zoning;
6024 (B) location;
6025 (C) view;
6026 (D) a geographic feature;
6027 (E) an easement;
6028 (F) a covenant;
6029 (G) proximity to raw materials;
6030 (H) the condition of surrounding property; or
6031 (I) proximity to markets;
6032 (iii) value attributable to the identification of an improvement to real property,
6033 including:
6034 (A) reputation of the designer, builder, or architect of the improvement;
6035 (B) a name given to, or associated with, the improvement; or
6036 (C) the historic significance of an improvement; or
6037 (iv) the enhancement or assemblage value specifically attributable to the interrelation of
6038 the existing tangible property in place working together as a unit.
6039 (17) "Governing body" means:
6040 (a) for a county, city, or town, the legislative body of the county, city, or town;
6041 (b) for a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities -
6042 Local Districts, the local district's board of trustees;
6043 (c) for a school district, the local board of education; or
6044 (d) for a special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1,
6045 Special Service District Act:
6046 (i) the legislative body of the county or municipality that created the special service
6047 district, to the extent that the county or municipal legislative body has not delegated authority to
6048 an administrative control board established under Section [ 17A-2-1326 ] 17D-1-301 ; or
6049 (ii) the administrative control board, to the extent that the county or municipal

6050 legislative body has delegated authority to an administrative control board established under
6051 Section [ 17A-2-1326 ] 17D-1-301 .
6052 (18) (a) For purposes of Section 59-2-103 :
6053 (i) "household" means the association of persons who live in the same dwelling, sharing
6054 its furnishings, facilities, accommodations, and expenses; and
6055 (ii) "household" includes married individuals, who are not legally separated, that have
6056 established domiciles at separate locations within the state.
6057 (b) In accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the
6058 commission may make rules defining the term "domicile."
6059 (19) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (19)(c), "improvement" means a building,
6060 structure, fixture, fence, or other item that is permanently attached to land, regardless of
6061 whether the title has been acquired to the land, if:
6062 (i) (A) attachment to land is essential to the operation or use of the item; and
6063 (B) the manner of attachment to land suggests that the item will remain attached to the
6064 land in the same place over the useful life of the item; or
6065 (ii) removal of the item would:
6066 (A) cause substantial damage to the item; or
6067 (B) require substantial alteration or repair of a structure to which the item is attached.
6068 (b) "Improvement" includes:
6069 (i) an accessory to an item described in Subsection (19)(a) if the accessory is:
6070 (A) essential to the operation of the item described in Subsection (19)(a); and
6071 (B) installed solely to serve the operation of the item described in Subsection (19)(a);
6072 and
6073 (ii) an item described in Subsection (19)(a) that:
6074 (A) is temporarily detached from the land for repairs; and
6075 (B) remains located on the land.
6076 (c) Notwithstanding Subsections (19)(a) and (b), "improvement" does not include:
6077 (i) an item considered to be personal property pursuant to rules made in accordance

6078 with Section 59-2-107 ;
6079 (ii) a moveable item that is attached to land:
6080 (A) for stability only; or
6081 (B) for an obvious temporary purpose;
6082 (iii) (A) manufacturing equipment and machinery; or
6083 (B) essential accessories to manufacturing equipment and machinery;
6084 (iv) an item attached to the land in a manner that facilitates removal without substantial
6085 damage to:
6086 (A) the land; or
6087 (B) the item; or
6088 (v) a transportable factory-built housing unit as defined in Section 59-2-1502 if that
6089 transportable factory-built housing unit is considered to be personal property under Section
6090 59-2-1503 .
6091 (20) "Intangible property" means:
6092 (a) property that is capable of private ownership separate from tangible property,
6093 including:
6094 (i) moneys;
6095 (ii) credits;
6096 (iii) bonds;
6097 (iv) stocks;
6098 (v) representative property;
6099 (vi) franchises;
6100 (vii) licenses;
6101 (viii) trade names;
6102 (ix) copyrights; and
6103 (x) patents;
6104 (b) a low-income housing tax credit; or
6105 (c) goodwill.

6106 (21) "Low-income housing tax credit" means:
6107 (a) a federal low-income housing tax credit under Section 42, Internal Revenue Code;
6108 or
6109 (b) a low-income housing tax credit under:
6110 (i) Section 59-7-607 ; or
6111 (ii) Section 59-10-1010 .
6112 (22) "Metalliferous minerals" includes gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, and uranium.
6113 (23) "Mine" means a natural deposit of either metalliferous or nonmetalliferous valuable
6114 mineral.
6115 (24) "Mining" means the process of producing, extracting, leaching, evaporating, or
6116 otherwise removing a mineral from a mine.
6117 (25) (a) "Mobile flight equipment" means tangible personal property that is:
6118 (i) owned or operated by an:
6119 (A) air charter service;
6120 (B) air contract service; or
6121 (C) airline; and
6122 (ii) (A) capable of flight;
6123 (B) attached to an aircraft that is capable of flight; or
6124 (C) contained in an aircraft that is capable of flight if the tangible personal property is
6125 intended to be used:
6126 (I) during multiple flights;
6127 (II) during a takeoff, flight, or landing; and
6128 (III) as a service provided by an air charter service, air contract service, or airline.
6129 (b) (i) "Mobile flight equipment" does not include a spare part other than a spare engine
6130 that is rotated:
6131 (A) at regular intervals; and
6132 (B) with an engine that is attached to the aircraft.
6133 (ii) In accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the

6134 commission may make rules defining the term "regular intervals."
6135 (26) "Nonmetalliferous minerals" includes, but is not limited to, oil, gas, coal, salts,
6136 sand, rock, gravel, and all carboniferous materials.
6137 (27) "Personal property" includes:
6138 (a) every class of property as defined in Subsection (28) which is the subject of
6139 ownership and not included within the meaning of the terms "real estate" and "improvements";
6140 (b) gas and water mains and pipes laid in roads, streets, or alleys;
6141 (c) bridges and ferries;
6142 (d) livestock which, for the purposes of the exemption provided under Section
6143 59-2-1112 , means all domestic animals, honeybees, poultry, fur-bearing animals, and fish; and
6144 (e) outdoor advertising structures as defined in Section 72-7-502 .
6145 (28) (a) "Property" means property that is subject to assessment and taxation according
6146 to its value.
6147 (b) "Property" does not include intangible property as defined in this section.
6148 (29) "Public utility," for purposes of this chapter, means the operating property of a
6149 railroad, gas corporation, oil or gas transportation or pipeline company, coal slurry pipeline
6150 company, electrical corporation, telephone corporation, sewerage corporation, or heat
6151 corporation where the company performs the service for, or delivers the commodity to, the
6152 public generally or companies serving the public generally, or in the case of a gas corporation or
6153 an electrical corporation, where the gas or electricity is sold or furnished to any member or
6154 consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use. Public utility also means
6155 the operating property of any entity or person defined under Section 54-2-1 except water
6156 corporations.
6157 (30) "Real estate" or "real property" includes:
6158 (a) the possession of, claim to, ownership of, or right to the possession of land;
6159 (b) all mines, minerals, and quarries in and under the land, all timber belonging to
6160 individuals or corporations growing or being on the lands of this state or the United States, and
6161 all rights and privileges appertaining to these; and

6162 (c) improvements.
6163 (31) "Residential property," for the purposes of the reductions and adjustments under
6164 this chapter, means any property used for residential purposes as a primary residence. It does
6165 not include property used for transient residential use or condominiums used in rental pools.
6166 (32) For purposes of Subsection 59-2-801 (1)(e), "route miles" means the number of
6167 miles calculated by the commission that is:
6168 (a) measured in a straight line by the commission; and
6169 (b) equal to the distance between a geographical location that begins or ends:
6170 (i) at a boundary of the state; and
6171 (ii) where an aircraft:
6172 (A) takes off; or
6173 (B) lands.
6174 (33) (a) "State-assessed commercial vehicle" means:
6175 (i) any commercial vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer which operates interstate or intrastate
6176 to transport passengers, freight, merchandise, or other property for hire; or
6177 (ii) any commercial vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer which operates interstate and
6178 transports the vehicle owner's goods or property in furtherance of the owner's commercial
6179 enterprise.
6180 (b) "State-assessed commercial vehicle" does not include vehicles used for hire which
6181 are specified in Subsection (8)(c) as county-assessed commercial vehicles.
6182 (34) "Taxable value" means fair market value less any applicable reduction allowed for
6183 residential property under Section 59-2-103 .
6184 (35) "Tax area" means a geographic area created by the overlapping boundaries of one
6185 or more taxing entities.
6186 (36) "Taxing entity" means any county, city, town, school district, special taxing
6187 district, local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local
6188 Districts, or other political subdivision of the state with the authority to levy a tax on property.
6189 (37) "Tax roll" means a permanent record of the taxes charged on property, as extended

6190 on the assessment roll and may be maintained on the same record or records as the assessment
6191 roll or may be maintained on a separate record properly indexed to the assessment roll. It
6192 includes tax books, tax lists, and other similar materials.
6193 Section 154. Section 59-2-924 is amended to read:
6194 59-2-924. Report of valuation of property to county auditor and commission --
6195 Transmittal by auditor to governing bodies -- Certified tax rate -- Calculation of certified
6196 tax rate -- Rulemaking authority -- Adoption of tentative budget.
6197 (1) (a) Before June 1 of each year, the county assessor of each county shall deliver to
6198 the county auditor and the commission the following statements:
6199 (i) a statement containing the aggregate valuation of all taxable property in each taxing
6200 entity; and
6201 (ii) a statement containing the taxable value of any additional personal property
6202 estimated by the county assessor to be subject to taxation in the current year.
6203 (b) The county auditor shall, on or before June 8, transmit to the governing body of
6204 each taxing entity:
6205 (i) the statements described in Subsections (1)(a)(i) and (ii);
6206 (ii) an estimate of the revenue from personal property;
6207 (iii) the certified tax rate; and
6208 (iv) all forms necessary to submit a tax levy request.
6209 (2) (a) (i) The "certified tax rate" means a tax rate that will provide the same ad valorem
6210 property tax revenues for a taxing entity as were budgeted by that taxing entity for the prior
6211 year.
6212 (ii) For purposes of this Subsection (2), "ad valorem property tax revenues" do not
6213 include:
6214 (A) collections from redemptions;
6215 (B) interest;
6216 (C) penalties; and
6217 (D) revenue received by a taxing entity from personal property that is:

6218 (I) assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3, County Assessment; and
6219 (II) semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
6220 (iii) (A) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the certified tax rate shall be
6221 calculated by dividing the ad valorem property tax revenues budgeted for the prior year by the
6222 taxing entity by the amount calculated under Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B).
6223 (B) For purposes of Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(A), the legislative body of a taxing entity
6224 shall calculate an amount as follows:
6225 (I) calculate for the taxing entity the difference between:
6226 (Aa) the aggregate taxable value of all property taxed; and
6227 (Bb) any redevelopment adjustments for the current calendar year;
6228 (II) after making the calculation required by Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B)(I), calculate an
6229 amount determined by increasing or decreasing the amount calculated under Subsection
6230 (2)(a)(iii)(B)(I) by the average of the percentage net change in the value of taxable property for
6231 the equalization period for the three calendar years immediately preceding the current calendar
6232 year;
6233 (III) after making the calculation required by Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B)(II), calculate the
6234 product of:
6235 (Aa) the amount calculated under Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B)(II); and
6236 (Bb) the percentage of property taxes collected for the five calendar years immediately
6237 preceding the current calendar year; and
6238 (IV) after making the calculation required by Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B)(III), calculate an
6239 amount determined by subtracting from the amount calculated under Subsection
6240 (2)(a)(iii)(B)(III) any new growth as defined in this section:
6241 (Aa) within the taxing entity; and
6242 (Bb) for the current calendar year.
6243 (C) For purposes of Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B)(I), the aggregate taxable value of all
6244 property taxed:
6245 (I) except as provided in Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(C)(II), includes the total taxable value of

6246 the real and personal property contained on the tax rolls of the taxing entity; and
6247 (II) does not include the total taxable value of personal property contained on the tax
6248 rolls of the taxing entity that is:
6249 (Aa) assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3, County Assessment; and
6250 (Bb) semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
6251 (D) For purposes of Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B)(II), for calendar years beginning on or
6252 after January 1, 2007, the value of taxable property does not include the value of personal
6253 property that is:
6254 (I) within the taxing entity assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3,
6255 County Assessment; and
6256 (II) semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
6257 (E) For purposes of Subsection (2)(a)(iii)(B)(III)(Bb), for calendar years beginning on
6258 or after January 1, 2007, the percentage of property taxes collected does not include property
6259 taxes collected from personal property that is:
6260 (I) within the taxing entity assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3,
6261 County Assessment; and
6262 (II) semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
6263 (F) In accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, the
6264 commission may prescribe rules for calculating redevelopment adjustments for a calendar year.
6265 (iv) (A) In accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking
6266 Act, the commission shall make rules determining the calculation of ad valorem property tax
6267 revenues budgeted by a taxing entity.
6268 (B) For purposes of Subsection (2)(a)(iv)(A), ad valorem property tax revenues
6269 budgeted by a taxing entity shall be calculated in the same manner as budgeted property tax
6270 revenues are calculated for purposes of Section 59-2-913 .
6271 (v) The certified tax rates for the taxing entities described in this Subsection (2)(a)(v)
6272 shall be calculated as follows:
6273 (A) except as provided in Subsection (2)(a)(v)(B), for new taxing entities the certified

6274 tax rate is zero;
6275 (B) for each municipality incorporated on or after July 1, 1996, the certified tax rate is:
6276 (I) in a county of the first, second, or third class, the levy imposed for municipal-type
6277 services under Sections 17-34-1 and 17-36-9 ; and
6278 (II) in a county of the fourth, fifth, or sixth class, the levy imposed for general county
6279 purposes and such other levies imposed solely for the municipal-type services identified in
6280 Section 17-34-1 and Subsection 17-36-3 (22); and
6281 (C) for debt service voted on by the public, the certified tax rate shall be the actual levy
6282 imposed by that section, except that the certified tax rates for the following levies shall be
6283 calculated in accordance with Section 59-2-913 and this section:
6284 (I) school leeways provided for under Sections 11-2-7 , 53A-16-110 , 53A-17a-125 ,
6285 53A-17a-127 , 53A-17a-133 , 53A-17a-134 , 53A-17a-143 , 53A-17a-145 , and 53A-21-103 ; and
6286 (II) levies to pay for the costs of state legislative mandates or judicial or administrative
6287 orders under Section 59-2-906.3 .
6288 (vi) (A) A judgment levy imposed under Section 59-2-1328 or 59-2-1330 shall be
6289 established at that rate which is sufficient to generate only the revenue required to satisfy one or
6290 more eligible judgments, as defined in Section 59-2-102 .
6291 (B) The ad valorem property tax revenue generated by the judgment levy shall not be
6292 considered in establishing the taxing entity's aggregate certified tax rate.
6293 (b) (i) For the purpose of calculating the certified tax rate, the county auditor shall use
6294 the taxable value of property on the assessment roll.
6295 (ii) For purposes of Subsection (2)(b)(i), the taxable value of property on the
6296 assessment roll does not include:
6297 (A) new growth as defined in Subsection (2)(b)(iii); or
6298 (B) the total taxable value of personal property contained on the tax rolls of the taxing
6299 entity that is:
6300 (I) assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3, County Assessment; and
6301 (II) semiconductor manufacturing equipment.

6302 (iii) "New growth" means:
6303 (A) the difference between the increase in taxable value of the taxing entity from the
6304 previous calendar year to the current year; minus
6305 (B) the amount of an increase in taxable value described in Subsection (2)(b)(v).
6306 (iv) For purposes of Subsection (2)(b)(iii), the taxable value of the taxing entity does
6307 not include the taxable value of personal property that is:
6308 (A) contained on the tax rolls of the taxing entity if that property is assessed by a
6309 county assessor in accordance with Part 3, County Assessment; and
6310 (B) semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
6311 (v) Subsection (2)(b)(iii)(B) applies to the following increases in taxable value:
6312 (A) the amount of increase to locally assessed real property taxable values resulting
6313 from factoring, reappraisal, or any other adjustments; or
6314 (B) the amount of an increase in the taxable value of property assessed by the
6315 commission under Section 59-2-201 resulting from a change in the method of apportioning the
6316 taxable value prescribed by:
6317 (I) the Legislature;
6318 (II) a court;
6319 (III) the commission in an administrative rule; or
6320 (IV) the commission in an administrative order.
6321 (c) Beginning January 1, 1997, if a taxing entity receives increased revenues from
6322 uniform fees on tangible personal property under Section 59-2-404 , 59-2-405 , 59-2-405.1 ,
6323 59-2-405.2 , or 59-2-405.3 as a result of any county imposing a sales and use tax under Chapter
6324 12, Part 11, County Option Sales and Use Tax, the taxing entity shall decrease its certified tax
6325 rate to offset the increased revenues.
6326 (d) (i) Beginning July 1, 1997, if a county has imposed a sales and use tax under
6327 Chapter 12, Part 11, County Option Sales and Use Tax, the county's certified tax rate shall be:
6328 (A) decreased on a one-time basis by the amount of the estimated sales and use tax
6329 revenue to be distributed to the county under Subsection 59-12-1102 (3); and

6330 (B) increased by the amount necessary to offset the county's reduction in revenue from
6331 uniform fees on tangible personal property under Section 59-2-404 , 59-2-405 , 59-2-405.1 ,
6332 59-2-405.2 , or 59-2-405.3 as a result of the decrease in the certified tax rate under Subsection
6333 (2)(d)(i)(A).
6334 (ii) The commission shall determine estimates of sales and use tax distributions for
6335 purposes of Subsection (2)(d)(i).
6336 (e) Beginning January 1, 1998, if a municipality has imposed an additional resort
6337 communities sales tax under Section 59-12-402 , the municipality's certified tax rate shall be
6338 decreased on a one-time basis by the amount necessary to offset the first 12 months of estimated
6339 revenue from the additional resort communities sales and use tax imposed under Section
6340 59-12-402 .
6341 (f) (i) (A) For fiscal year 2000, the certified tax rate of each county required under
6342 Subsection 17-34-1 (4)(a) to provide advanced life support and paramedic services to the
6343 unincorporated area of the county shall be decreased by the amount necessary to reduce
6344 revenues in that fiscal year by an amount equal to the difference between the amount the county
6345 budgeted in its 2000 fiscal year budget for advanced life support and paramedic services
6346 countywide and the amount the county spent during fiscal year 2000 for those services,
6347 excluding amounts spent from a municipal services fund for those services.
6348 (B) For fiscal year 2001, the certified tax rate of each county to which Subsection
6349 (2)(f)(i)(A) applies shall be decreased by the amount necessary to reduce revenues in that fiscal
6350 year by the amount that the county spent during fiscal year 2000 for advanced life support and
6351 paramedic services countywide, excluding amounts spent from a municipal services fund for
6352 those services.
6353 (ii) (A) A city or town located within a county of the first class to which Subsection
6354 (2)(f)(i) applies may increase its certified tax rate by the amount necessary to generate within
6355 the city or town the same amount of revenues as the county would collect from that city or
6356 town if the decrease under Subsection (2)(f)(i) did not occur.
6357 (B) An increase under Subsection (2)(f)(ii)(A), whether occurring in a single fiscal year

6358 or spread over multiple fiscal years, is not subject to the notice and hearing requirements of
6359 Sections 59-2-918 and 59-2-919 .
6360 (g) (i) The certified tax rate of each county required under Subsection 17-34-1 (4)(b) to
6361 provide detective investigative services to the unincorporated area of the county shall be
6362 decreased:
6363 (A) in fiscal year 2001 by the amount necessary to reduce revenues in that fiscal year by
6364 at least $4,400,000; and
6365 (B) in fiscal year 2002 by the amount necessary to reduce revenues in that fiscal year by
6366 an amount equal to the difference between $9,258,412 and the amount of the reduction in
6367 revenues under Subsection (2)(g)(i)(A).
6368 (ii) (A) (I) Beginning with municipal fiscal year 2002, a city or town located within a
6369 county to which Subsection (2)(g)(i) applies may increase its certified tax rate to generate
6370 within the city or town the same amount of revenue as the county would have collected during
6371 county fiscal year 2001 from within the city or town except for Subsection (2)(g)(i)(A).
6372 (II) Beginning with municipal fiscal year 2003, a city or town located within a county to
6373 which Subsection (2)(g)(i) applies may increase its certified tax rate to generate within the city
6374 or town the same amount of revenue as the county would have collected during county fiscal
6375 year 2002 from within the city or town except for Subsection (2)(g)(i)(B).
6376 (B) (I) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(g)(ii)(B)(II), an increase in the city or
6377 town's certified tax rate under Subsection (2)(g)(ii)(A), whether occurring in a single fiscal year
6378 or spread over multiple fiscal years, is subject to the notice and hearing requirements of Sections
6379 59-2-918 and 59-2-919 .
6380 (II) For an increase under this Subsection (2)(g)(ii) that generates revenue that does not
6381 exceed the same amount of revenue as the county would have collected except for Subsection
6382 (2)(g)(i), the requirements of Sections 59-2-918 and 59-2-919 do not apply if the city or town:
6383 (Aa) publishes a notice that meets the size, type, placement, and frequency requirements
6384 of Section 59-2-919 , reflects that the increase is a shift of a tax from one imposed by the county
6385 to one imposed by the city or town, and explains how the revenues from the tax increase will be

6386 used; and
6387 (Bb) holds a public hearing on the tax shift that may be held in conjunction with the city
6388 or town's regular budget hearing.
6389 (h) (i) This Subsection (2)(h) applies to each county that:
6390 (A) establishes a countywide special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2,
6391 Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, to provide jail service, as provided in Subsection
6392 [ 17A-2-1304 (1)(a)(x)] 17D-1-201 (10); and
6393 (B) levies a property tax on behalf of the special service district under Section
6394 [ 17A-2-1322 ] 17D-1-105 .
6395 (ii) (A) The certified tax rate of each county to which this Subsection (2)(h) applies
6396 shall be decreased by the amount necessary to reduce county revenues by the same amount of
6397 revenues that will be generated by the property tax imposed on behalf of the special service
6398 district.
6399 (B) Each decrease under Subsection (2)(h)(ii)(A) shall occur contemporaneously with
6400 the levy on behalf of the special service district under Section [ 17A-2-1322 ] 17D-1-105 .
6401 (i) (i) As used in this Subsection (2)(i):
6402 (A) "Annexing county" means a county whose unincorporated area is included within a
6403 fire district by annexation.
6404 (B) "Annexing municipality" means a municipality whose area is included within a fire
6405 district by annexation.
6406 (C) "Equalized fire protection tax rate" means the tax rate that results from:
6407 (I) calculating, for each participating county and each participating municipality, the
6408 property tax revenue necessary to cover all of the costs associated with providing fire
6409 protection, paramedic, and emergency services:
6410 (Aa) for a participating county, in the unincorporated area of the county; and
6411 (Bb) for a participating municipality, in the municipality; and
6412 (II) adding all the amounts calculated under Subsection (2)(i)(i)(C)(I) for all
6413 participating counties and all participating municipalities and then dividing that sum by the

6414 aggregate taxable value of the property, as adjusted in accordance with Section 59-2-913 :
6415 (Aa) for participating counties, in the unincorporated area of all participating counties;
6416 and
6417 (Bb) for participating municipalities, in all the participating municipalities.
6418 (D) "Fire district" means a service area under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 9, Service
6419 Area Act, in the creation of which an election was not required under Subsection
6420 17B-1-214 (3)(c).
6421 (E) "Fire protection tax rate" means:
6422 (I) for an annexing county, the property tax rate that, when applied to taxable property
6423 in the unincorporated area of the county, generates enough property tax revenue to cover all the
6424 costs associated with providing fire protection, paramedic, and emergency services in the
6425 unincorporated area of the county; and
6426 (II) for an annexing municipality, the property tax rate that generates enough property
6427 tax revenue in the municipality to cover all the costs associated with providing fire protection,
6428 paramedic, and emergency services in the municipality.
6429 (F) "Participating county" means a county whose unincorporated area is included within
6430 a fire district at the time of the creation of the fire district.
6431 (G) "Participating municipality" means a municipality whose area is included within a
6432 fire district at the time of the creation of the fire district.
6433 (ii) In the first year following creation of a fire district, the certified tax rate of each
6434 participating county and each participating municipality shall be decreased by the amount of the
6435 equalized fire protection tax rate.
6436 (iii) In the first year following annexation to a fire district, the certified tax rate of each
6437 annexing county and each annexing municipality shall be decreased by the fire protection tax
6438 rate.
6439 (iv) Each tax levied under this section by a fire district shall be considered to be levied
6440 by:
6441 (A) each participating county and each annexing county for purposes of the county's tax

6442 limitation under Section 59-2-908 ; and
6443 (B) each participating municipality and each annexing municipality for purposes of the
6444 municipality's tax limitation under Section 10-5-112 , for a town, or Section 10-6-133 , for a city.
6445 (j) For the calendar year beginning on January 1, 2007, the calculation of a taxing
6446 entity's certified tax rate shall be adjusted by the amount necessary to offset any change in the
6447 certified tax rate that may result from excluding the following from the certified tax rate under
6448 Subsection (2)(a) enacted by the Legislature during the 2007 General Session:
6449 (i) personal property tax revenue:
6450 (A) received by a taxing entity;
6451 (B) assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3, County Assessment; and
6452 (C) for personal property that is semiconductor manufacturing equipment; or
6453 (ii) the taxable value of personal property:
6454 (A) contained on the tax rolls of a taxing entity;
6455 (B) assessed by a county assessor in accordance with Part 3, County Assessment; and
6456 (C) that is semiconductor manufacturing equipment.
6457 (3) (a) On or before June 22, each taxing entity shall annually adopt a tentative budget.
6458 (b) If the taxing entity intends to exceed the certified tax rate, it shall notify the county
6459 auditor of:
6460 (i) its intent to exceed the certified tax rate; and
6461 (ii) the amount by which it proposes to exceed the certified tax rate.
6462 (c) The county auditor shall notify all property owners of any intent to exceed the
6463 certified tax rate in accordance with Subsection 59-2-919 (2).
6464 (4) (a) The taxable value for the base year under Subsection 17C-1-102 (6) shall be
6465 reduced for any year to the extent necessary to provide a community development and renewal
6466 agency established under Title 17C, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Community
6467 Development and Renewal Agencies, with approximately the same amount of money the agency
6468 would have received without a reduction in the county's certified tax rate if:
6469 (i) in that year there is a decrease in the certified tax rate under Subsection (2)(c) or

6470 (2)(d)(i);
6471 (ii) the amount of the decrease is more than 20% of the county's certified tax rate of the
6472 previous year; and
6473 (iii) the decrease results in a reduction of the amount to be paid to the agency under
6474 Section 17C-1-403 or 17C-1-404 .
6475 (b) The base taxable value under Subsection 17C-1-102 (6) shall be increased in any
6476 year to the extent necessary to provide a community development and renewal agency with
6477 approximately the same amount of money as the agency would have received without an
6478 increase in the certified tax rate that year if:
6479 (i) in that year the base taxable value under Subsection 17C-1-102 (6) is reduced due to
6480 a decrease in the certified tax rate under Subsection (2)(c) or (2)(d)(i); and
6481 (ii) The certified tax rate of a city, school district, local district, or special service
6482 district increases independent of the adjustment to the taxable value of the base year.
6483 (c) Notwithstanding a decrease in the certified tax rate under Subsection (2)(c) or
6484 (2)(d)(i), the amount of money allocated and, when collected, paid each year to a community
6485 development and renewal agency established under Title 17C, Limited Purpose Local
6486 Government Entities - Community Development and Renewal Agencies, for the payment of
6487 bonds or other contract indebtedness, but not for administrative costs, may not be less than that
6488 amount would have been without a decrease in the certified tax rate under Subsection (2)(c) or
6489 (2)(d)(i).
6490 Section 155. Section 59-21-1 is amended to read:
6491 59-21-1. Disposition of federal mineral lease monies -- Priority to political
6492 subdivisions impacted by mineral development -- Disposition of mineral bonus payments
6493 -- Appropriation of monies attributable to royalties from extraction of minerals on federal
6494 land located within boundaries of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
6495 (1) Except as provided in Subsections (2) through (4), all monies received from the
6496 United States under the provisions of the Mineral Lands Leasing Act, 30 U.S.C. Sec. 181 et
6497 seq., shall:

6498 (a) be deposited in the Mineral Lease Account of the General Fund; and
6499 (b) be appropriated by the Legislature giving priority to those subdivisions of the state
6500 socially or economically impacted by development of minerals leased under the Mineral Lands
6501 Leasing Act, for:
6502 (i) planning;
6503 (ii) construction and maintenance of public facilities; and
6504 (iii) provision of public services.
6505 (2) Seventy percent of money received from federal mineral lease bonus payments shall
6506 be deposited into the Permanent Community Impact Fund and shall be used as provided in Title
6507 9, Chapter 4, Part 3, Community Impact Alleviation.
6508 (3) Thirty percent of money received from federal mineral lease bonus payments shall
6509 be deposited in the Mineral Bonus Account created by Subsection 59-21-2 (1) and appropriated
6510 as provided in that subsection.
6511 (4) (a) For purposes of this Subsection (4):
6512 (i) the "boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument" means the
6513 boundaries:
6514 (A) established by Presidential Proclamation No. 6920, 61 Fed. Reg. 50,223 (1996);
6515 and
6516 (B) modified by:
6517 (I) Pub. L. No. 105-335, 112 Stat. 3139; and
6518 (II) Pub. L. No. 105-355, 112 Stat. 3247; and
6519 (ii) a special service district, school district, or federal land is considered to be located
6520 within the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument if a portion of the
6521 special service district, school district, or federal land is located within the boundaries described
6522 in Subsection (4)(a)(i).
6523 (b) Beginning on July 1, 1999, the Legislature shall appropriate, as provided in
6524 Subsections (4)(c) through (g), monies received from the United States that are attributable to
6525 royalties from the extraction of minerals on federal land that, on September 18, 1996, was

6526 located within the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
6527 (c) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 40% of the monies described in
6528 Subsection (4)(b) to the Department of Transportation to be distributed by the Department of
6529 Transportation to special service districts that are:
6530 (i) established by counties under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special
6531 Service District Act;
6532 (ii) socially or economically impacted by the development of minerals under the Mineral
6533 Lands Leasing Act; and
6534 (iii) located within the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National
6535 Monument.
6536 (d) The Department of Transportation shall distribute the money described in
6537 Subsection (4)(c) in amounts proportionate to the amount of federal mineral lease money
6538 generated by the county in which a special service district is located.
6539 (e) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 40% of the monies described in
6540 Subsection (4)(b) to the State Board of Education to be distributed equally to school districts
6541 that are:
6542 (i) socially or economically impacted by the development of minerals under the Mineral
6543 Lands Leasing Act; and
6544 (ii) located within the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
6545 (f) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 2.25% of the monies described in
6546 Subsection (4)(b) to the Utah Geological Survey to facilitate the development of energy and
6547 mineral resources in counties that are:
6548 (i) socially or economically impacted by the development of minerals under the Mineral
6549 Lands Leasing Act; and
6550 (ii) located within the boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
6551 (g) Seventeen and three-fourths percent of the monies described in Subsection (4)(b)
6552 shall be deposited annually into the State School Fund established by Utah Constitution Article
6553 X, Section 5.

6554 Section 156. Section 59-21-2 is amended to read:
6555 59-21-2. Mineral Bonus Account created -- Contents -- Use of Mineral Bonus
6556 Account money -- Mineral Lease Account created -- Contents -- Appropriation of monies
6557 from Mineral Lease Account.
6558 (1) (a) The Mineral Bonus Account is created within the General Fund.
6559 (b) The Mineral Bonus Account consists of federal mineral lease bonus payments
6560 deposited pursuant to Subsection 59-21-1 (3).
6561 (c) The Legislature shall make appropriations from the Mineral Bonus Account in
6562 accordance with Section 35 of the Mineral Lands Leasing Act of 1920, 30 U.S.C. Sec. 191.
6563 (d) The state treasurer shall:
6564 (i) invest the money in the Mineral Bonus Account by following the procedures and
6565 requirements of Title 51, Chapter 7, State Money Management Act; and
6566 (ii) deposit all interest or other earnings derived from the account into the Mineral
6567 Bonus Account.
6568 (2) (a) The Mineral Lease Account is created within the General Fund.
6569 (b) The Mineral Lease Account consists of federal mineral lease money deposited
6570 pursuant to Subsection 59-21-1 (1).
6571 (c) The Legislature shall make appropriations from the Mineral Lease Account as
6572 provided in Subsection 59-21-1 (1) and this Subsection (2).
6573 (d) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 32.5% of all deposits made to the Mineral
6574 Lease Account to the Permanent Community Impact Fund established by Section 9-4-303 .
6575 (e) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 2.25% of all deposits made to the Mineral
6576 Lease Account to the State Board of Education, to be used for education research and
6577 experimentation in the use of staff and facilities designed to improve the quality of education in
6578 Utah.
6579 (f) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 2.25% of all deposits made to the Mineral
6580 Lease Account to the Utah Geological Survey, to be used for activities carried on by the survey
6581 having as a purpose the development and exploitation of natural resources in the state.

6582 (g) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 2.25% of all deposits made to the Mineral
6583 Lease Account to the Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University, to be used for
6584 activities carried on by the laboratory having as a purpose the development and exploitation of
6585 water resources in the state.
6586 (h) (i) The Legislature shall annually appropriate to the Department of Transportation
6587 40% of all deposits made to the Mineral Lease Account to be distributed as provided in
6588 Subsection (2)(h)(ii) to:
6589 (A) counties;
6590 (B) special service districts established:
6591 (I) by counties;
6592 (II) under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act;
6593 and
6594 (III) for the purpose of constructing, repairing, or maintaining roads; or
6595 (C) special service districts established:
6596 (I) by counties;
6597 (II) under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act;
6598 and
6599 (III) for other purposes authorized by statute.
6600 (ii) The Department of Transportation shall allocate the funds specified in Subsection
6601 (2)(h)(i):
6602 (A) in amounts proportionate to the amount of mineral lease money generated by each
6603 county; and
6604 (B) to a county or special service district established by a county under Title [17A]
6605 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, as determined by the county
6606 legislative body.
6607 (i) (i) The Legislature shall annually appropriate 5% of all deposits made to the Mineral
6608 Lease Account to the Department of Community and Culture to be distributed to:
6609 (A) special service districts established:

6610 (I) by counties;
6611 (II) under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act;
6612 and
6613 (III) for the purpose of constructing, repairing, or maintaining roads; or
6614 (B) special service districts established:
6615 (I) by counties;
6616 (II) under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act;
6617 and
6618 (III) for other purposes authorized by statute.
6619 (ii) The Department of Community and Culture may distribute the amounts described in
6620 Subsection (2)(i)(i) only to special service districts established under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter
6621 [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, by counties:
6622 (A) of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class;
6623 (B) in which 4.5% or less of the mineral lease moneys within the state are generated;
6624 and
6625 (C) that are significantly socially or economically impacted as provided in Subsection
6626 (3)(i)(iii) by the development of minerals under the Mineral Lands Leasing Act, 30 U.S.C. Sec.
6627 181 et seq.
6628 (iii) The significant social or economic impact required under Subsection (2)(i)(ii)(C)
6629 shall be as a result of:
6630 (A) the transportation within the county of hydrocarbons, including solid hydrocarbons
6631 as defined in Section 59-5-101 ;
6632 (B) the employment of persons residing within the county in hydrocarbon extraction,
6633 including the extraction of solid hydrocarbons as defined in Section 59-5-101 ; or
6634 (C) a combination of Subsections (2)(i)(iii)(A) and (B).
6635 (iv) For purposes of distributing the appropriations under this Subsection (2)(i) to
6636 special service districts established by counties under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13,
6637 Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, the Department of Community and Culture shall:

6638 (A) (I) allocate 50% of the appropriations equally among the counties meeting the
6639 requirements of Subsections (2)(i)(ii) and (iii); and
6640 (II) allocate 50% of the appropriations based on the ratio that the population of each
6641 county meeting the requirements of Subsections (2)(i)(ii) and (iii) bears to the total population
6642 of all of the counties meeting the requirements of Subsections (2)(i)(ii) and (iii); and
6643 (B) after making the allocations described in Subsection (2)(i)(iv)(A), distribute the
6644 allocated revenues to special service districts established by the counties under Title [17A] 17D,
6645 Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, as determined by the executive
6646 director of the Department of Community and Culture after consulting with the county
6647 legislative bodies of the counties meeting the requirements of Subsections (2)(i)(ii) and (iii).
6648 (v) The executive director of the Department of Community and Culture:
6649 (A) shall determine whether a county meets the requirements of Subsections (2)(i)(ii)
6650 and (iii);
6651 (B) shall distribute the appropriations under Subsection (2)(i)(i) to special service
6652 districts established by counties under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special
6653 Service District Act, that meet the requirements of Subsections (2)(i)(ii) and (iii); and
6654 (C) in accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act,
6655 may make rules:
6656 (I) providing a procedure for making the distributions under this Subsection (2)(i) to
6657 special service districts; and
6658 (II) defining the term "population" for purposes of Subsection (2)(i)(iv).
6659 (j) (i) The Legislature shall annually make the following appropriations from the
6660 Mineral Lease Account:
6661 (A) an amount equal to 52 cents multiplied by the number of acres of school or
6662 institutional trust lands, lands owned by the Division of Parks and Recreation, and lands owned
6663 by the Division of Wildlife Resources that are not under an in lieu of taxes contract, to each
6664 county in which those lands are located;
6665 (B) to each county in which school or institutional trust lands are transferred to the

6666 federal government after December 31, 1992, an amount equal to the number of transferred
6667 acres in the county multiplied by a payment per acre equal to the difference between 52 cents
6668 per acre and the per acre payment made to that county in the most recent payment under the
6669 federal payment in lieu of taxes program, 31 U.S.C. Sec. 6901 et seq., unless the federal
6670 payment was equal to or exceeded the 52 cents per acre, in which case a payment under this
6671 Subsection (2)(j)(i)(B) may not be made for the transferred lands;
6672 (C) to each county in which federal lands, which are entitlement lands under the federal
6673 in lieu of taxes program, are transferred to the school or institutional trust, an amount equal to
6674 the number of transferred acres in the county multiplied by a payment per acre equal to the
6675 difference between the most recent per acre payment made under the federal payment in lieu of
6676 taxes program and 52 cents per acre, unless the federal payment was equal to or less than 52
6677 cents per acre, in which case a payment under this Subsection (2)(j)(i)(C) may not be made for
6678 the transferred land; and
6679 (D) to a county of the fifth or sixth class, an amount equal to the product of:
6680 (I) $1,000; and
6681 (II) the number of residences described in Subsection (2)(j)(iv) that are located within
6682 the county.
6683 (ii) A county receiving money under Subsection (2)(j)(i) may, as determined by the
6684 county legislative body, distribute the money or a portion of the money to:
6685 (A) special service districts established by the county under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter
6686 [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act;
6687 (B) school districts; or
6688 (C) public institutions of higher education.
6689 (iii) (A) Beginning in fiscal year 1994-95 and in each year after fiscal year 1994-95, the
6690 Division of Finance shall increase or decrease the amounts per acre provided for in Subsections
6691 (2)(j)(i)(A) through (C) by the average annual change in the Consumer Price Index for all urban
6692 consumers published by the Department of Labor.
6693 (B) For fiscal years beginning on or after fiscal year 2001-02, the Division of Finance

6694 shall increase or decrease the amount described in Subsection (2)(j)(i)(D)(I) by the average
6695 annual change in the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers published by the
6696 Department of Labor.
6697 (iv) Residences for purposes of Subsection (2)(j)(i)(D)(II) are residences that are:
6698 (A) owned by:
6699 (I) the Division of Parks and Recreation; or
6700 (II) the Division of Wildlife Resources;
6701 (B) located on lands that are owned by:
6702 (I) the Division of Parks and Recreation; or
6703 (II) the Division of Wildlife Resources; and
6704 (C) are not subject to taxation under:
6705 (I) Chapter 2, Property Tax Act; or
6706 (II) Chapter 4, Privilege Tax.
6707 (k) The Legislature shall annually appropriate to the Permanent Community Impact
6708 Fund all deposits remaining in the Mineral Lease Account after making the appropriations
6709 provided for in Subsections (2)(d) through (j).
6710 (3) (a) Each agency, board, institution of higher education, and political subdivision
6711 receiving money under this chapter shall provide the Legislature, through the Office of the
6712 Legislative Fiscal Analyst, with a complete accounting of the use of that money on an annual
6713 basis.
6714 (b) The accounting required under Subsection (3)(a) shall:
6715 (i) include actual expenditures for the prior fiscal year, budgeted expenditures for the
6716 current fiscal year, and planned expenditures for the following fiscal year; and
6717 (ii) be reviewed by the Economic Development and Human Resources Appropriation
6718 Subcommittee as part of its normal budgetary process under Title 63, Chapter 38, Budgetary
6719 Procedures Act.
6720 Section 157. Section 63-9-68 is amended to read:
6721 63-9-68. Memorials by the state or state agencies.

6722 (1) As used in this section:
6723 (a) "State agency" means any of the following of the state that holds title to state land:
6724 (i) a department;
6725 (ii) a division;
6726 (iii) a board;
6727 (iv) an institution of higher education; or
6728 (v) for the judicial branch, the state court administrator.
6729 (b) "State agency" does not mean a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose
6730 Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or a special service district under Title [17A] 17D,
6731 Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act[, or a dependent district under Title
6732 17A, Chapter 3, Dependent Districts].
6733 (2) The Legislature, the governor, or a state agency may authorize the use or donation
6734 of state land for the purpose of maintaining, erecting, or contributing to the erection or
6735 maintenance of a memorial to commemorate those individuals who have:
6736 (a) participated in or have given their lives in any of the one or more wars or military
6737 conflicts in which the United States of America has been a participant; or
6738 (b) given their lives in association with public service on behalf of the state, including
6739 firefighters, peace officers, highway patrol officers, or other public servants.
6740 (3) The use or donation of state land in relation to a memorial described in Subsection
6741 (2) may include:
6742 (a) using or appropriating public funds for the purchase, development, improvement, or
6743 maintenance of state land on which a memorial is located or established;
6744 (b) using or appropriating public funds for the erection, improvement, or maintenance
6745 of a memorial;
6746 (c) donating or selling state land for use in relation to a memorial; or
6747 (d) authorizing the use of state land for a memorial that is funded or maintained in part
6748 or in full by another public or private entity.
6749 (4) The Legislature, the governor, or a state agency may specify the form, placement,

6750 and design of a memorial that is subject to this section if the Legislature, the governor, or the
6751 state agency holds title to, has authority over, or donates the land on which a memorial is
6752 established.
6753 (5) Memorials within the definition of a capital development as defined in Section
6754 63A-5-104 must be approved as provided for in Section 63A-5-104 .
6755 (6) Nothing in this section shall be construed as a prohibition of memorials, including
6756 those for purposes not covered by this section, which have been erected within the approval
6757 requirements in effect at the time of their erection or which may be duly authorized through
6758 other legal means.
6759 Section 158. Section 63E-1-102 is amended to read:
6760 63E-1-102. Definitions.
6761 As used in this title:
6762 (1) "Authorizing statute" means the statute creating an entity as an independent entity.
6763 (2) "Committee" means the Retirement and Independent Entities Committee created in
6764 Section 63E-1-201 .
6765 (3) "Independent corporation" means a corporation incorporated in accordance with
6766 Chapter 2, Independent Corporations Act.
6767 (4) (a) "Independent entity" means an entity having a public purpose relating to the
6768 state or its citizens that is individually created by the state or is given by the state the right to
6769 exist and conduct its affairs as an:
6770 (i) independent state agency; or
6771 (ii) independent corporation.
6772 (b) "Independent entity" includes the:
6773 (i) Dairy Commission created in Title 4, Chapter 22, Dairy Promotion Act;
6774 (ii) Heber Valley Railroad Authority created in Title 9, Chapter 3, Part 3, Heber Valley
6775 Historic Railroad Authority;
6776 (iii) Utah Science Center Authority created in Title 9, Chapter 3, Part 4, Utah Science
6777 Center Authority;

6778 (iv) Utah Housing Corporation created in Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 9, Utah Housing
6779 Corporation Act;
6780 (v) Utah State Fair Corporation created in Title 9, Chapter 4, Part 11, Utah State Fair
6781 Corporation Act;
6782 (vi) Workers' Compensation Fund created in Title 31A, Chapter 33, Workers'
6783 Compensation Fund;
6784 (vii) Utah State Retirement Office created in Title 49, Chapter 11, Utah State
6785 Retirement Systems Administration;
6786 (viii) School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration created in Title 53C, Chapter
6787 1, Part 2, School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration;
6788 (ix) Utah Communications Agency Network created in Title 63C, Chapter 7, Utah
6789 Communications Agency Network Act; and
6790 (x) Utah Capital Investment Corporation created in Title 63, Chapter 38f, Part 12, Utah
6791 Venture Capital Enhancement Act.
6792 (c) Notwithstanding this Subsection (4), "independent entity" does not include:
6793 (i) the Public Service Commission of Utah created in Section 54-1-1 ;
6794 (ii) an institution within the state system of higher education;
6795 (iii) a city, county, or town;
6796 (iv) a local school district;
6797 (v) a local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local
6798 Districts; or
6799 (vi) a special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1,
6800 Special Service District Act.
6801 (5) "Independent state agency" means an entity that is created by the state, but is
6802 independent of the governor's direct supervisory control.
6803 (6) "Monies held in trust" means monies maintained for the benefit of:
6804 (a) one or more private individuals, including public employees;
6805 (b) one or more public or private entities; or

6806 (c) the owners of a quasi-public corporation.
6807 (7) "Public corporation" means an artificial person, public in ownership, individually
6808 created by the state as a body politic and corporate for the administration of a public purpose
6809 relating to the state or its citizens.
6810 (8) "Quasi-public corporation" means an artificial person, private in ownership,
6811 individually created as a corporation by the state which has accepted from the state the grant of
6812 a franchise or contract involving the performance of a public purpose relating to the state or its
6813 citizens.
6814 Section 159. Section 67-1a-6.5 is amended to read:
6815 67-1a-6.5. Lieutenant governor certification of governmental entity creation,
6816 consolidation, division, dissolution, or boundary change.
6817 (1) As used in this section:
6818 (a) "AGRC" means the Automated Geographic Reference Center created under Section
6819 63F-1-506 .
6820 (b) "Boundary change" means the adjustment of an entity's boundary either through
6821 gaining territory (annexation), losing territory (withdrawal), adjusting the common boundary
6822 with an adjacent entity (may gain territory, lose territory, or a combination of both gaining and
6823 losing territory), or any other adjustment of the entity's boundary.
6824 (c) "Consolidation" means the combining of two or more entities into a single entity
6825 such that the consolidated entity's boundary contains all of the territory of the original entities,
6826 but no additional territory.
6827 (d) "County attorney" means the county attorney of each county which contains any
6828 part of the area affected by the entity creation, consolidation, division, dissolution, or boundary
6829 change.
6830 (e) (i) "County auditor" means the county auditor of each county which contains any
6831 part of the area affected by the entity creation, consolidation, division, dissolution, or boundary
6832 change.
6833 (ii) If the county does not have a county auditor, "county auditor" means the county

6834 clerk or other government official acting as the county auditor.
6835 (f) "County recorder" means the county recorder of each county which contains any
6836 part of the area affected by the entity creation, consolidation, division, dissolution, or boundary
6837 change.
6838 (g) "County surveyor" means the county surveyor of each county which contains any
6839 part of the area affected by the entity creation, consolidation, division, dissolution, or boundary
6840 change.
6841 (h) "Creation" means the forming of a new entity where that entity did not exist before
6842 its creation.
6843 (i) "Dissolution" means the disbandment of an entity.
6844 (j) "Division" means the dividing of one entity into two or more entities such that the
6845 original entity's boundary contains all of the territory of the resultant entities, but no additional
6846 territory.
6847 (k) "Entity" means the entity that is created, consolidated, divided, dissolved, or whose
6848 boundary is changed.
6849 (l) "Initiating body" means the county legislative body, municipal legislative body, local
6850 district or special service district board, court, public official, or other authorized person or
6851 body that initiates the creation, dissolution, consolidation, or boundary change of an entity or
6852 entities.
6853 (m) "Notice of entity boundary change" means the notice the lieutenant governor
6854 receives under Subsection 10-1-116 (1), 10-2-419 (4), 10-2-425 (1), 10-2-507 (1), 17-2-9 (2),
6855 17-2-13 (3), 17-50-104 (3), 17-50-105 (1)(b) or (2)(e), [ 17A-2-1327 (4),] 17B-1-414 (2),
6856 17B-1-417 (6), 17B-1-512 (1), or 53A-2-101.5 (1), or Section 17D-1-403 or 17D-1-603 of an
6857 entity's pending boundary change.
6858 (n) "Notice of entity consolidation" means the notice the lieutenant governor receives
6859 under Section 10-2-610 or Subsection 10-1-116 (1) [or], 17-2-4 (2), or 17D-3-203 (3) of entities'
6860 pending consolidation.
6861 (o) "Notice of entity creation" means the notice the lieutenant governor receives under

6862 Subsection 10-1-116 (1), 10-2-119 (1), 10-2-125 (8), 11-13-204 (4), 11-13-205 (6),
6863 [ 17A-2-1311 (2),] 17B-1-215 (1), 17C-1-201 (2), 17D-3-203 (3), or 53A-2-101.5 (1) or Section
6864 17D-1-209 of an entity's pending creation.
6865 (p) "Notice of entity dissolution" means the notice the lieutenant governor receives
6866 under Subsection 10-1-116 (1), 10-2-712 (2), [17A-2-1329 (3),] 17B-1-1308 (4), [or]
6867 17C-1-701 (2)(a), or 17D-3-203 (3), or Section 17D-1-603 of an entity's pending dissolution.
6868 (q) "Notice of entity division" means the notice the lieutenant governor receives under
6869 Subsection 17-3-3 (3) or 17D-3-203 (3) of an entity's pending division.
6870 (r) "Notice of intention to file articles of incorporation" means the notice the lieutenant
6871 governor receives under Subsection 10-2-120 (1).
6872 (s) "Lieutenant governor" means the lieutenant governor created in Article VII, Section
6873 1 of the Utah Constitution.
6874 (t) "State auditor" means the state auditor created in Article VII, Section 1 of the Utah
6875 Constitution.
6876 (u) "State Tax Commission" means the State Tax Commission created in Article XIII,
6877 Section 6 of the Utah Constitution.
6878 (2) Within ten days after receiving a notice of entity creation, the lieutenant governor
6879 shall:
6880 (a) issue a certificate of entity creation;
6881 (b) (i) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (2)(a) and a copy of the
6882 notice of entity creation, including the accompanying map or legal description, to the State Tax
6883 Commission, AGRC, county recorder, county surveyor, county auditor, and county attorney;
6884 and
6885 (ii) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (2)(a) to the state auditor; and
6886 (c) send to the initiating body a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (2)(a)
6887 and a statement indicating completion of Subsection (2)(b).
6888 (3) Within ten days after receiving a notice of intention to file articles of incorporation,
6889 the lieutenant governor shall:

6890 (a) issue a certificate indicating receipt of a notice of intention to file articles of
6891 incorporation;
6892 (b) (i) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (3)(a) and a copy of the
6893 notice of intention to file articles of incorporation, including the accompanying map or legal
6894 description, to the State Tax Commission, AGRC, county recorder, county surveyor, county
6895 auditor, and county attorney; and
6896 (ii) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (3)(a) to the state auditor; and
6897 (c) send to the initiating body a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (3)(a)
6898 and a statement indicating completion of Subsection (3)(b).
6899 (4) Within ten days after receiving a notice of entity consolidation, the lieutenant
6900 governor shall:
6901 (a) issue a certificate of entity consolidation;
6902 (b) (i) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (4)(a) and a copy of the
6903 notice of entity consolidation to the State Tax Commission, AGRC, county recorder, county
6904 surveyor, county auditor, and county attorney; and
6905 (ii) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (4)(a) to the state auditor; and
6906 (c) send to the initiating body and the entities being consolidated, if different from the
6907 initiating body, a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (4)(a) and a statement
6908 indicating completion of Subsection (4)(b).
6909 (5) Within ten days after receiving a notice of entity division, the lieutenant governor
6910 shall:
6911 (a) issue a certificate of entity division;
6912 (b) (i) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (5)(a) and a copy of the
6913 notice of entity consolidation, including the accompanying map or legal description, to the State
6914 Tax Commission, AGRC, county recorder, county surveyor, county auditor, and county
6915 attorney; and
6916 (ii) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (5)(a) to the state auditor; and
6917 (c) send to the initiating body a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (5)(a)

6918 and a statement indicating completion of Subsection (5)(b).
6919 (6) Within ten days after receiving a notice of entity dissolution, the lieutenant governor
6920 shall:
6921 (a) issue a certificate of entity dissolution;
6922 (b) (i) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (6)(a) and a copy of the
6923 notice of entity dissolution to the State Tax Commission, AGRC, county recorder, county
6924 surveyor, county auditor, and county attorney; and
6925 (ii) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (6)(a) to the state auditor; and
6926 (c) send to the initiating body and the entity being dissolved, if different than the
6927 initiating body, a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (6)(a) and a statement
6928 indicating completion of Subsection (6)(b).
6929 (7) Within ten days after receiving a notice of entity boundary change, the lieutenant
6930 governor shall:
6931 (a) issue a certificate of entity boundary change;
6932 (b) send a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (7)(a) and a copy of the
6933 notice of entity boundary change, including the accompanying map or legal description, to the
6934 State Tax Commission, AGRC, county recorder, county surveyor, county auditor, and county
6935 attorney; and
6936 (c) send to the initiating body or bodies, and each entity whose boundary is changed, if
6937 different than the initiating body, a copy of the certificate issued under Subsection (7)(a) and a
6938 statement indicating completion of Subsection (7)(b).
6939 (8) (a) The lieutenant governor shall keep, index, maintain, and make available to the
6940 public certificates, notices, maps, and other documents necessary in performing the duties of
6941 Subsections (2) through (7).
6942 (b) The lieutenant governor shall furnish a certified copy of documents to any person
6943 who requests a certified copy.
6944 (c) The lieutenant governor may charge a reasonable fee for copies of documents or
6945 certified copies of documents.

6946 Section 160. Section 67-3-1 is amended to read:
6947 67-3-1. Functions and duties.
6948 (1) (a) The state auditor is the auditor of public accounts and is independent of any
6949 executive or administrative officers of the state.
6950 (b) The state auditor is not limited in the selection of personnel or in the determination
6951 of the reasonable and necessary expenses of his office.
6952 (2) The state auditor shall examine and certify annually in respect to each fiscal year,
6953 financial statements showing:
6954 (a) the condition of the state's finances;
6955 (b) the revenues received or accrued;
6956 (c) expenditures paid or accrued;
6957 (d) the amount of unexpended or unencumbered balances of the appropriations to the
6958 agencies, departments, divisions, commissions, and institutions; and
6959 (e) the cash balances of the funds in the custody of the state treasurer.
6960 (3) (a) The state auditor shall:
6961 (i) audit each permanent fund, each special fund, the General Fund, and the accounts of
6962 any department of state government or any independent agency or public corporation as the law
6963 requires, as the auditor determines is necessary, or upon request of the governor or the
6964 Legislature;
6965 (ii) perform the audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and
6966 other auditing procedures as promulgated by recognized authoritative bodies;
6967 (iii) as the auditor determines is necessary, conduct the audits to determine:
6968 (A) honesty and integrity in fiscal affairs;
6969 (B) accuracy and reliability of financial statements;
6970 (C) effectiveness and adequacy of financial controls; and
6971 (D) compliance with the law.
6972 (b) If any state entity receives federal funding, the state auditor shall ensure that the
6973 audit is performed in accordance with federal audit requirements.

6974 (c) (i) The costs of the federal compliance portion of the audit may be paid from an
6975 appropriation to the state auditor from the General Fund.
6976 (ii) If an appropriation is not provided, or if the federal government does not specifically
6977 provide for payment of audit costs, the costs of the federal compliance portions of the audit
6978 shall be allocated on the basis of the percentage that each state entity's federal funding bears to
6979 the total federal funds received by the state.
6980 (iii) The allocation shall be adjusted to reflect any reduced audit time required to audit
6981 funds passed through the state to local governments and to reflect any reduction in audit time
6982 obtained through the use of internal auditors working under the direction of the state auditor.
6983 (4) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (4)(b), the state auditor shall, in addition to
6984 financial audits, and as the auditor determines is necessary, conduct performance and special
6985 purpose audits, examinations, and reviews of any entity that receives public funds, including a
6986 determination of any or all of the following:
6987 (i) the honesty and integrity of all its fiscal affairs;
6988 (ii) whether or not its administrators have faithfully complied with legislative intent;
6989 (iii) whether or not its operations have been conducted in an efficient, effective, and
6990 cost-efficient manner;
6991 (iv) whether or not its programs have been effective in accomplishing the intended
6992 objectives; and
6993 (v) whether or not its management, control, and information systems are adequate and
6994 effective.
6995 (b) The auditor may not conduct performance and special purpose audits, examinations,
6996 and reviews of any entity that receives public funds if the entity:
6997 (i) has an elected auditor; and
6998 (ii) has, within the entity's last budget year, had its financial statements or performance
6999 formally reviewed by another outside auditor.
7000 (5) The state auditor shall administer any oath or affirmation necessary to the
7001 performance of the duties of the auditor's office, and may subpoena witnesses and documents,

7002 whether electronic or otherwise, and examine into any matter that the auditor considers
7003 necessary.
7004 (6) The state auditor may require all persons who have had the disposition or
7005 management of any property of this state or its political subdivisions to submit statements
7006 regarding it at the time and in the form that the auditor requires.
7007 (7) The state auditor shall:
7008 (a) except where otherwise provided by law, institute suits in Salt Lake County in
7009 relation to the assessment, collection, and payment of its revenues against:
7010 (i) persons who by any means have become entrusted with public monies or property
7011 and have failed to pay over or deliver those monies or property; and
7012 (ii) all debtors of the state;
7013 (b) collect and pay into the state treasury all fees received by the state auditor;
7014 (c) perform the duties of a member of all boards of which the state auditor is a member
7015 by the constitution or laws of the state, and any other duties that are prescribed by the
7016 constitution and by law;
7017 (d) stop the payment of the salary of any state official or state employee who:
7018 (i) refuses to settle accounts or provide required statements about the custody and
7019 disposition of public funds or other state property;
7020 (ii) refuses, neglects, or ignores the instruction of the state auditor or any controlling
7021 board or department head with respect to the manner of keeping prescribed accounts or funds;
7022 or
7023 (iii) fails to correct any delinquencies, improper procedures, and errors brought to the
7024 official's or employee's attention;
7025 (e) establish accounting systems, methods, and forms for public accounts in all taxing or
7026 fee-assessing units of the state in the interest of uniformity, efficiency, and economy;
7027 (f) superintend the contractual auditing of all state accounts;
7028 (g) subject to Subsection (8), withhold state allocated funds or the disbursement of
7029 property taxes from any state taxing or fee-assessing unit, if necessary, to ensure that officials

7030 and employees in those taxing units of the state comply with state laws and procedures in the
7031 budgeting, expenditures, and financial reporting of public funds; and
7032 (h) subject to Subsection (9), withhold the disbursement of tax monies from any county,
7033 if necessary, to ensure that officials and employees in the county comply with Section
7034 59-2-303.1 .
7035 (8) Except as otherwise provided by law, the state auditor may not withhold funds
7036 under Subsection (7)(g) until a taxing or fee-assessing unit has received formal written notice of
7037 noncompliance from the auditor and has been given 60 days to make the specified corrections.
7038 (9) The state auditor may not withhold funds under Subsection (7)(h) until a county has
7039 received formal written notice of noncompliance from the auditor and has been given 60 days to
7040 make the specified corrections.
7041 (10) The state auditor shall:
7042 (a) establish audit guidelines and procedures for audits of local mental health and
7043 substance abuse authorities and their contract providers, conducted pursuant to Title 17,
7044 Chapter 43, Parts 2, Local Substance Abuse Authorities and 3, Local Mental Health
7045 Authorities, Title 51, Chapter 2a, Accounting Reports from Political Subdivisions, Interlocal
7046 Organizations, and Other Local Entities Act, and Title 62A, Chapter 15, Substance Abuse and
7047 Mental Health Act; and
7048 (b) ensure that those guidelines and procedures provide assurances to the state that:
7049 (i) state and federal funds appropriated to local mental health authorities are used for
7050 mental health purposes;
7051 (ii) a private provider under an annual or otherwise ongoing contract to provide
7052 comprehensive mental health programs or services for a local mental health authority is in
7053 compliance with state and local contract requirements, and state and federal law;
7054 (iii) state and federal funds appropriated to local substance abuse authorities are used
7055 for substance abuse programs and services; and
7056 (iv) a private provider under an annual or otherwise ongoing contract to provide
7057 comprehensive substance abuse programs or services for a local substance abuse authority is in

7058 compliance with state and local contract requirements, and state and federal law.
7059 (11) The state auditor may, in accordance with the auditor's responsibilities for political
7060 subdivisions of the state as provided in Title 51, Chapter 2a, Accounting Reports from Political
7061 Subdivisions, Interlocal Organizations, and Other Local Entities Act, initiate audits or
7062 investigations of any political subdivision that are necessary to determine honesty and integrity
7063 in fiscal affairs, accuracy and reliability of financial statements, effectiveness, and adequacy of
7064 financial controls and compliance with the law.
7065 (12) (a) The state auditor may not audit work that the state auditor performed before
7066 becoming state auditor.
7067 (b) If the state auditor has previously been a responsible official in state government
7068 whose work has not yet been audited, the Legislature shall:
7069 (i) designate how that work shall be audited; and
7070 (ii) provide additional funding for those audits, if necessary.
7071 (13) The state auditor shall:
7072 (a) with the assistance, advice, and recommendations of an advisory committee
7073 appointed by the state auditor from among local district boards of trustees, officers, and
7074 employees and special service district boards, officers, and employees:
7075 (i) prepare a Uniform Accounting Manual for Local Districts that:
7076 (A) prescribes a uniform system of accounting and uniform budgeting and reporting
7077 procedures for local districts under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities -
7078 Local Districts, and special service districts under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah]
7079 1, Special Service District Act;
7080 (B) conforms with generally accepted accounting principles; and
7081 (C) prescribes reasonable exceptions and modifications for smaller districts to the
7082 uniform system of accounting, budgeting, and reporting;
7083 (ii) maintain the manual under Subsection (13)(a) so that it continues to reflect
7084 generally accepted accounting principles;
7085 (iii) conduct a continuing review and modification of procedures in order to improve

7086 them;
7087 (iv) prepare and supply each district with suitable budget and reporting forms; and
7088 (v) prepare instructional materials, conduct training programs, and render other services
7089 considered necessary to assist local districts and special service districts in implementing the
7090 uniform accounting, budgeting, and reporting procedures; and
7091 (b) continually analyze and evaluate the accounting, budgeting, and reporting practices
7092 and experiences of specific local districts and special service districts selected by the state
7093 auditor and make the information available to all districts.
7094 (14) (a) The following records in the custody or control of the state auditor are
7095 protected records under Title 63, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management
7096 Act:
7097 (i) records that would disclose information relating to allegations of personal
7098 misconduct, gross mismanagement, or illegal activity of a past or present governmental
7099 employee if the information or allegation cannot be corroborated by the state auditor through
7100 other documents or evidence, and the records relating to the allegation are not relied upon by
7101 the state auditor in preparing a final audit report;
7102 (ii) records and audit workpapers to the extent they would disclose the identity of a
7103 person who during the course of an audit, communicated the existence of any waste of public
7104 funds, property, or manpower, or a violation or suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation
7105 adopted under the laws of this state, a political subdivision of the state, or any recognized entity
7106 of the United States, if the information was disclosed on the condition that the identity of the
7107 person be protected;
7108 (iii) before an audit is completed and the final audit report is released, records or drafts
7109 circulated to a person who is not an employee or head of a governmental entity for their
7110 response or information;
7111 (iv) records that would disclose an outline or part of any audit survey plans or audit
7112 program; and
7113 (v) requests for audits, if disclosure would risk circumvention of an audit.

7114 (b) The provisions of Subsections (14)(a)(i), (ii), and (iii) do not prohibit the disclosure
7115 of records or information that relate to a violation of the law by a governmental entity or
7116 employee to a government prosecutor or peace officer.
7117 (c) The provisions of this Subsection (14) do not limit the authority otherwise given to
7118 the state auditor to classify a document as public, private, controlled, or protected under Title
7119 63, Chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act.
7120 Section 161. Section 69-2-4 is amended to read:
7121 69-2-4. Administration.
7122 The administration of the 911 emergency telephone system shall be provided by the
7123 governing authority of the public agency establishing 911 emergency telephone service either
7124 directly or by the appointment of employees of the public agency as directed by the governing
7125 authority, except that any 911 emergency telephone service established by a special service
7126 district shall be administered as set forth in Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13] 1, Special
7127 Service District Act.
7128 Section 162. Section 69-2-5 is amended to read:
7129 69-2-5. Funding for 911 emergency telephone service.
7130 (1) In providing funding of 911 emergency telephone service, any public agency
7131 establishing a 911 emergency telephone service may:
7132 (a) seek assistance from the federal or state government, to the extent constitutionally
7133 permissible, in the form of loans, advances, grants, subsidies, and otherwise, directly or
7134 indirectly;
7135 (b) seek funds appropriated by local governmental taxing authorities for the funding of
7136 public safety agencies; and
7137 (c) seek gifts, donations, or grants from individuals, corporations, or other private
7138 entities.
7139 (2) For purposes of providing funding of 911 emergency telephone service, special
7140 service districts may raise funds as provided in Section [ 17A-2-1322 ] 17D-1-105 and may
7141 borrow money and incur indebtedness as provided in Section [ 17A-2-1316 ] 17D-1-103 .

7142 (3) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(b) and subject to the other provisions of
7143 this Subsection (3) a county, city, or town within which 911 emergency telephone service is
7144 provided may levy monthly an emergency services telephone charge on:
7145 (i) each local exchange service switched access line within the boundaries of the county,
7146 city, or town;
7147 (ii) each revenue producing radio communications access line with a billing address
7148 within the boundaries of the county, city, or town; and
7149 (iii) any other service, including voice over Internet protocol, provided to a user within
7150 the boundaries of the county, city, or town that allows the user to make calls to and receive calls
7151 from the public switched telephone network, including commercial mobile radio service
7152 networks.
7153 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(a), an access line provided for public coin telephone
7154 service is exempt from emergency telephone charges.
7155 (c) The amount of the charge levied under this section may not exceed:
7156 (i) 61 cents per month for each local exchange service switched access line;
7157 (ii) 61 cents per month for each radio communications access line; and
7158 (iii) 61 cents per month for each service under Subsection (3)(a)(iii).
7159 (d) (i) For purposes of this Subsection (3)(d) the following terms shall be defined as
7160 provided in Section 59-12-102 :
7161 (A) "mobile telecommunications service";
7162 (B) "primary place of use";
7163 (C) "service address"; and
7164 (D) "telephone service."
7165 (ii) An access line described in Subsection (3)(a) is considered to be within the
7166 boundaries of a county, city, or town if the telephone services provided over the access line are
7167 located within the county, city, or town:
7168 (A) for purposes of sales and use taxes under Title 59, Chapter 12, Sales and Use Tax
7169 Act; and

7170 (B) determined in accordance with Section 59-12-207.4 .
7171 (iii) The rate imposed on an access line under this section shall be determined in
7172 accordance with Subsection (3)(d)(iv) if the location of an access line described in Subsection
7173 (3)(a) is determined under Subsection (3)(d)(ii) to be a county, city, or town other than county,
7174 city, or town in which is located:
7175 (A) for telephone service other than mobile telecommunications service, the purchaser's
7176 service address; or
7177 (B) for mobile telecommunications service, the purchaser's primary place of use.
7178 (iv) The rate imposed on an access line under this section shall be the lower of:
7179 (A) the rate imposed by the county, city, or town in which the access line is located
7180 under Subsection (3)(d)(ii); or
7181 (B) the rate imposed by the county, city, or town in which it is located:
7182 (I) for telephone service other than mobile telecommunications service, the purchaser's
7183 service address; or
7184 (II) for mobile telecommunications service, the purchaser's primary place of use.
7185 (e) (i) A county, city, or town shall notify the Public Service Commission of the intent
7186 to levy the charge under this Subsection (3) at least 30 days before the effective date of the
7187 charge being levied.
7188 (ii) For purposes of this Subsection (3)(e):
7189 (A) "Annexation" means an annexation to:
7190 (I) a city or town under Title 10, Chapter 2, Part 4, Annexation; or
7191 (II) a county under Title 17, Chapter 2, Annexation to County.
7192 (B) "Annexing area" means an area that is annexed into a county, city, or town.
7193 (iii) (A) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(C) or (D), if on or after July 1,
7194 2003, a county, city, or town enacts or repeals a charge or changes the amount of the charge
7195 under this section, the enactment, repeal, or change shall take effect:
7196 (I) on the first day of a calendar quarter; and
7197 (II) after a 90-day period beginning on the date the State Tax Commission receives

7198 notice meeting the requirements of Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(B) from the county, city, or town.
7199 (B) The notice described in Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(A) shall state:
7200 (I) that the county, city, or town will enact or repeal a charge or change the amount of
7201 the charge under this section;
7202 (II) the statutory authority for the charge described in Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(B)(I);
7203 (III) the effective date of the charge described in Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(B)(I); and
7204 (IV) if the county, city, or town enacts the charge or changes the amount of the charge
7205 described in Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(B)(I), the amount of the charge.
7206 (C) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(A), the enactment of a charge or a charge
7207 increase under this section shall take effect on the first day of the first billing period:
7208 (I) that begins after the effective date of the enactment of the charge or the charge
7209 increase; and
7210 (II) if the billing period for the charge begins before the effective date of the enactment
7211 of the charge or the charge increase imposed under this section.
7212 (D) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(e)(iii)(A), the repeal of a charge or a charge
7213 decrease under this section shall take effect on the first day of the last billing period:
7214 (I) that began before the effective date of the repeal of the charge or the charge
7215 decrease; and
7216 (II) if the billing period for the charge begins before the effective date of the repeal of
7217 the charge or the charge decrease imposed under this section.
7218 (iv) (A) Except as provided in Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(C) or (D), if for an annexation that
7219 occurs on or after July 1, 2003, the annexation will result in the enactment, repeal, or a change
7220 in the amount of a charge imposed under this section for an annexing area, the enactment,
7221 repeal, or change shall take effect:
7222 (I) on the first day of a calendar quarter; and
7223 (II) after a 90-day period beginning on the date the State Tax Commission receives
7224 notice meeting the requirements of Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(B) from the county, city, or town that
7225 annexes the annexing area.

7226 (B) The notice described in Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(A) shall state:
7227 (I) that the annexation described in Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(A) will result in an enactment,
7228 repeal, or a change in the charge being imposed under this section for the annexing area;
7229 (II) the statutory authority for the charge described in Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(B)(I);
7230 (III) the effective date of the charge described in Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(B)(I); and
7231 (IV) if the county, city, or town enacts the charge or changes the amount of the charge
7232 described in Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(B)(I), the amount of the charge.
7233 (C) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(A), the enactment of a charge or a charge
7234 increase under this section shall take effect on the first day of the first billing period:
7235 (I) that begins after the effective date of the enactment of the charge or the charge
7236 increase; and
7237 (II) if the billing period for the charge begins before the effective date of the enactment
7238 of the charge or the charge increase imposed under this section.
7239 (D) Notwithstanding Subsection (3)(e)(iv)(A), the repeal of a charge or a charge
7240 decrease under this section shall take effect on the first day of the last billing period:
7241 (I) that began before the effective date of the repeal of the charge or the charge
7242 decrease; and
7243 (II) if the billing period for the charge begins before the effective date of the repeal of
7244 the charge or the charge decrease imposed under this section.
7245 (f) Subject to Subsection (3)(g), an emergency services telephone charge levied under
7246 this section shall:
7247 (i) be billed and collected by the person that provides the:
7248 (A) local exchange service switched access line services; or
7249 (B) radio communications access line services; and
7250 (ii) except for costs retained under Subsection (3)(h), remitted to the State Tax
7251 Commission.
7252 (g) An emergency services telephone charge on a mobile telecommunications service
7253 may be levied, billed, and collected only to the extent permitted by the Mobile

7254 Telecommunications Sourcing Act, 4 U.S.C. Sec. 116 et seq.
7255 (h) The person that bills and collects the charges levied under Subsection (3)(f) may:
7256 (i) bill the charge imposed by this section in combination with the charge levied under
7257 Section 69-2-5.6 as one line item charge; and
7258 (ii) retain an amount not to exceed 1.5% of the levy collected under this section as
7259 reimbursement for the cost of billing, collecting, and remitting the levy.
7260 (i) The State Tax Commission shall:
7261 (i) collect, enforce, and administer the charge imposed under this Subsection (3) using
7262 the same procedures used in the administration, collection, and enforcement of the state sales
7263 and use taxes under:
7264 (A) Title 59, Chapter 1, General Taxation Policies; and
7265 (B) Title 59, Chapter 12, Part 1, Tax Collection, except for:
7266 (I) Section 59-12-104 ;
7267 (II) Section 59-12-104.1 ;
7268 (III) Section 59-12-104.2 ; and
7269 (IV) Section 59-12-107.1 ;
7270 (ii) transmit monies collected under this Subsection (3):
7271 (A) monthly; and
7272 (B) by electronic funds transfer by the commission to the county, city, or town that
7273 imposes the charge; and
7274 (iii) charge the county, city, or town for the State Tax Commission's services under this
7275 Subsection (3) in an amount:
7276 (A) sufficient to reimburse the State Tax Commission for the cost to the State Tax
7277 Commission in rendering the services; and
7278 (B) that may not exceed an amount equal to 1.5% of the charges imposed under this
7279 Subsection (3).
7280 (4) (a) Any money received by a public agency for the provision of 911 emergency
7281 telephone service shall be deposited in a special emergency telephone service fund.

7282 (b) (i) Except as provided in Subsection (5), the money in the emergency telephone
7283 service fund shall be expended by the public agency to pay the costs of establishing, installing,
7284 maintaining, and operating a 911 emergency telephone system or integrating a 911 system into
7285 an established public safety dispatch center, including contracting with the providers of local
7286 exchange service, radio communications service, and vendors of appropriate terminal equipment
7287 as necessary to implement the 911 emergency telephone service.
7288 (ii) Revenues derived for the funding of 911 emergency telephone service may only be
7289 used for that portion of costs related to the operation of the 911 emergency telephone system
7290 when such a system is integrated with any public safety dispatch system.
7291 (c) Any unexpended money in the emergency telephone service fund at the end of a
7292 fiscal year does not lapse, and must be carried forward to be used for the purposes described in
7293 this section.
7294 (5) (a) Revenue received by a local entity from an increase in the levy imposed under
7295 Subsection (3) after the 2004 Annual General Session, or from grants from the Utah 911
7296 Committee pursuant to Section 53-10-605 :
7297 (i) shall be deposited into the special emergency telephone service fund described in
7298 Subsection (4)(a); and
7299 (ii) shall only be used for that portion of the costs related to the development and
7300 operation of wireless and land-based enhanced 911 emergency telephone service and the
7301 implementation of wireless E-911 Phase I and Phase II services as provided in Subsection
7302 (5)(b).
7303 (b) The costs allowed under Subsection (5)(a)(ii) shall include the public service
7304 answering point's or local entity's costs for:
7305 (i) acquisition, upgrade, modification, maintenance, and operation of public service
7306 answering point equipment capable of receiving E-911 information;
7307 (ii) database development, operation, and maintenance; and
7308 (iii) personnel costs associated with establishing, installing, maintaining, and operating
7309 wireless E-911 Phase I and Phase II services, including training emergency service personnel

7310 regarding receipt and use of E-911 wireless service information and educating consumers
7311 regarding the appropriate and responsible use of E-911 wireless service.
7312 (6) A local entity that increases the levy it imposes under Subsection (3)(c) after the
7313 2004 Annual General Session shall increase the levy to the maximum amount permitted by
7314 Subsection (3)(c).
7315 Section 163. Section 73-2-1 is amended to read:
7316 73-2-1. State engineer -- Term -- Powers and duties -- Qualification for duties.
7317 (1) There shall be a state engineer.
7318 (2) The state engineer shall:
7319 (a) be appointed by the governor with the consent of the Senate;
7320 (b) hold office for the term of four years and until a successor is appointed; and
7321 (c) have five years experience as a practical engineer or the theoretical knowledge,
7322 practical experience, and skill necessary for the position.
7323 (3) (a) The state engineer shall be responsible for the general administrative supervision
7324 of the waters of the state and the measurement, appropriation, apportionment, and distribution
7325 of those waters.
7326 (b) The state engineer may secure the equitable apportionment and distribution of the
7327 water according to the respective rights of appropriators.
7328 (4) The state engineer shall make rules, in accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah
7329 Administrative Rulemaking Act, consistent with the purposes and provisions of this title,
7330 regarding:
7331 (a) reports of water right conveyances;
7332 (b) the construction of water wells and the licensing of water well drillers;
7333 (c) dam construction and safety;
7334 (d) the alteration of natural streams;
7335 (e) sewage effluent reuse;
7336 (f) geothermal resource conservation; and
7337 (g) enforcement orders and the imposition of fines and penalties.

7338 (5) The state engineer may make rules, in accordance with Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah
7339 Administrative Rulemaking Act, consistent with the purposes and provisions of this title,
7340 governing:
7341 (a) water distribution systems and water commissioners;
7342 (b) water measurement and reporting;
7343 (c) ground-water recharge and recovery;
7344 (d) the determination of water rights; and
7345 (e) the form and content of applications and related documents, maps, and reports.
7346 (6) The state engineer may bring suit in courts of competent jurisdiction to:
7347 (a) enjoin the unlawful appropriation, diversion, and use of surface and underground
7348 water without first seeking redress through the administrative process;
7349 (b) prevent theft, waste, loss, or pollution of those waters;
7350 (c) enable him to carry out the duties of his office; and
7351 (d) enforce administrative orders and collect fines and penalties.
7352 (7) The state engineer may:
7353 (a) upon request from the board of trustees of an irrigation district under Title 17B,
7354 Chapter 2a, Part 5, Irrigation District Act, or another local district under Title 17B, Limited
7355 Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, or a special service district under Title
7356 [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act, that operates an
7357 irrigation water system, cause a water survey to be made of all lands proposed to be annexed to
7358 the district in order to determine and allot the maximum amount of water that could be
7359 beneficially used on the land, with a separate survey and allotment being made for each 40-acre
7360 or smaller tract in separate ownership; and
7361 (b) upon completion of the survey and allotment under Subsection (7)(a), file with the
7362 district board a return of the survey and report of the allotment.
7363 (8) (a) The state engineer may establish water distribution systems and define their
7364 boundaries.
7365 (b) The water distribution systems shall be formed in a manner that:

7366 (i) secures the best protection to the water claimants; and
7367 (ii) is the most economical for the state to supervise.
7368 Section 164. Section 73-5-15 is amended to read:
7369 73-5-15. Groundwater management plan.
7370 (1) As used in this section:
7371 (a) "Critical management area" means a groundwater basin in which the groundwater
7372 withdrawals consistently exceed the safe yield.
7373 (b) "Safe yield" means the amount of groundwater that can be withdrawn from a
7374 groundwater basin over a period of time without exceeding the long-term recharge of the basin
7375 or unreasonably affecting the basin's physical and chemical integrity.
7376 (2) (a) The state engineer may regulate groundwater withdrawals within a specific
7377 groundwater basin by adopting a groundwater management plan in accordance with this section
7378 for any groundwater basin or aquifer or combination of hydrologically connected groundwater
7379 basins or aquifers.
7380 (b) The objectives of a groundwater management plan are to:
7381 (i) limit groundwater withdrawals to safe yield;
7382 (ii) protect the physical integrity of the aquifer; and
7383 (iii) protect water quality.
7384 (c) The state engineer shall adopt a groundwater management plan for a groundwater
7385 basin if more than 1/3 of the water right owners in the groundwater basin request that the state
7386 engineer adopt a groundwater management plan.
7387 (3) (a) In developing a groundwater management plan, the state engineer may consider:
7388 (i) the hydrology of the groundwater basin;
7389 (ii) the physical characteristics of the groundwater basin;
7390 (iii) the relationship between surface water and groundwater, including whether the
7391 groundwater should be managed in conjunction with hydrologically connected surface waters;
7392 (iv) the geographic spacing and location of groundwater withdrawals;
7393 (v) water quality;

7394 (vi) local well interference; and
7395 (vii) other relevant factors.
7396 (b) The state engineer shall base the provisions of a groundwater management plan on
7397 the principles of prior appropriation.
7398 (c) (i) The state engineer shall use the best available scientific method to determine safe
7399 yield.
7400 (ii) As hydrologic conditions change or additional information becomes available, safe
7401 yield determinations made by the state engineer may be revised by following the procedures
7402 listed in Subsection (5).
7403 (4) (a) (i) Except as provided in Subsection (4)(b), the withdrawal of water from a
7404 groundwater basin shall be limited to the basin's safe yield.
7405 (ii) Before limiting withdrawals in a groundwater basin to safe yield, the state engineer
7406 shall:
7407 (A) determine the groundwater basin's safe yield; and
7408 (B) adopt a groundwater management plan for the groundwater basin.
7409 (iii) If the state engineer determines that groundwater withdrawals in a groundwater
7410 basin exceed the safe yield, the state engineer shall regulate groundwater rights in that
7411 groundwater basin based on the priority date of the water rights under the groundwater
7412 management plan, unless a voluntary arrangement exists under Subsection (4)(c) that requires a
7413 different distribution.
7414 (b) When adopting a groundwater management plan for a critical management area, the
7415 state engineer shall, based on economic and other impacts to an individual water user or a local
7416 community caused by the implementation of safe yield limits on withdrawals, allow gradual
7417 implementation of the groundwater management plan.
7418 (c) (i) In consultation with the state engineer, water users in a groundwater basin may
7419 agree to participate in a voluntary arrangement for managing withdrawals at any time, either
7420 before or after a determination that groundwater withdrawals exceed the groundwater basin's
7421 safe yield.

7422 (ii) A voluntary arrangement under Subsection (4)(c)(i) shall be consistent with other
7423 law.
7424 (iii) The adoption of a voluntary arrangement under this Subsection (4)(c) by less than
7425 all of the water users in a groundwater basin does not affect the rights of water users who do
7426 not agree to the voluntary arrangement.
7427 (5) To adopt a groundwater management plan, the state engineer shall:
7428 (a) give notice as specified in Subsection (7) at least 30 days before the first public
7429 meeting held in accordance with Subsection (5)(b):
7430 (i) that the state engineer proposes to adopt a groundwater management plan;
7431 (ii) describing generally the land area proposed to be included in the groundwater
7432 management plan; and
7433 (iii) stating the location, date, and time of each public meeting to be held in accordance
7434 with Subsection (5)(b);
7435 (b) hold one or more public meetings in the geographic area proposed to be included
7436 within the groundwater management plan to:
7437 (i) address the need for a groundwater management plan;
7438 (ii) present any data, studies, or reports that the state engineer intends to consider in
7439 preparing the groundwater management plan;
7440 (iii) address safe yield and any other subject that may be included in the groundwater
7441 management plan;
7442 (iv) outline the estimated administrative costs, if any, that groundwater users are likely
7443 to incur if the plan is adopted; and
7444 (v) receive any public comments and other information presented at the public meeting,
7445 including comments from any of the entities listed in Subsection (7)(a)(iii);
7446 (c) receive and consider written comments concerning the proposed groundwater
7447 management plan from any person for a period determined by the state engineer of not less than
7448 60 days after the day on which the notice required by Subsection (5)(a) is given;
7449 (d) (i) at least 60 days prior to final adoption of the groundwater management plan,

7450 publish notice:
7451 (A) that a draft of the groundwater management plan has been proposed; and
7452 (B) specifying where a copy of the draft plan may be reviewed; and
7453 (ii) promptly provide a copy of the draft plan in printed or electronic form to each of the
7454 entities listed in Subsection (7)(a)(iii) that makes written request for a copy; and
7455 (e) provide notice of the adoption of the groundwater management plan.
7456 (6) A groundwater management plan shall become effective on the date notice of
7457 adoption is completed under Subsection (7), or on a later date if specified in the plan.
7458 (7) (a) A notice required by this section shall be:
7459 (i) published once a week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general
7460 circulation in each county that encompasses a portion of the land area proposed to be included
7461 within the groundwater management plan;
7462 (ii) published conspicuously on the state engineer's Internet website; and
7463 (iii) mailed to each of the following that has within its boundaries a portion of the land
7464 area to be included within the proposed groundwater management plan:
7465 (A) county;
7466 (B) incorporated city or town;
7467 (C) improvement district under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 4, Improvement District
7468 Act;
7469 (D) service area, under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 9, Service Area Act;
7470 (E) drainage district, under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 2, Drainage District Act;
7471 (F) irrigation district, under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 5, Irrigation District Act;
7472 (G) metropolitan water district, under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 6, Metropolitan
7473 Water District Act;
7474 (H) special service district providing water, sewer, drainage, or flood control services,
7475 under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act;
7476 (I) water conservancy district, under Title 17B, Chapter 2a, Part 10, Water
7477 Conservancy District Act; and

7478 (J) conservation district, under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter 3, [Part 8,] Conservation
7479 [Districts] District Act.
7480 (b) A notice required by this section is effective upon substantial compliance with
7481 Subsections (7)(a)(i) through (iii).
7482 (8) A groundwater management plan may be amended in the same manner as a
7483 groundwater management plan may be adopted under this section.
7484 (9) The existence of a groundwater management plan does not preclude any otherwise
7485 eligible person from filing any application or challenging any decision made by the state engineer
7486 within the affected groundwater basin.
7487 (10) (a) A person aggrieved by a groundwater management plan may challenge any
7488 aspect of the groundwater management plan by filing a complaint within 60 days after the
7489 adoption of the groundwater management plan in the district court for any county in which the
7490 groundwater basin is found.
7491 (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (9), a person may challenge the components of a
7492 groundwater management plan only in the manner provided by Subsection (10)(a).
7493 (c) An action brought under this Subsection (10) is reviewed de novo by the district
7494 court.
7495 (d) A person challenging a groundwater management plan under this Subsection (10)
7496 shall join the state engineer as a defendant in the action challenging the groundwater
7497 management plan.
7498 (e) (i) Within 30 days after the day on which a person files an action challenging any
7499 aspect of a groundwater management plan under Subsection (10)(a), the person filing the action
7500 shall publish notice of the action in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the
7501 district court is located.
7502 (ii) The notice required by Subsection (10)(e)(i) shall be published once a week for two
7503 consecutive weeks.
7504 (iii) The notice required by Subsection (10)(e)(i) shall:
7505 (A) identify the groundwater management plan the person is challenging;

7506 (B) identify the case number assigned by the district court;
7507 (C) state that a person affected by the groundwater management plan may petition the
7508 district court to intervene in the action challenging the groundwater management plan; and
7509 (D) list the address for the clerk of the district court in which the action is filed.
7510 (iv) (A) Any person affected by the groundwater management plan may petition to
7511 intervene in the action within 60 days after the day on which notice is last published under
7512 Subsections (10)(e)(i) and (ii).
7513 (B) The district court's treatment of a petition to intervene under this Subsection
7514 (10)(e)(iv) is governed by the Utah Rules of Civil Procedure.
7515 (v) A district court in which an action is brought under Subsection (10)(a) shall
7516 consolidate all actions brought under that Subsection and include in the consolidated action any
7517 person whose petition to intervene is granted.
7518 (11) A groundwater management plan adopted or amended in accordance with this
7519 section is exempt from the requirements in Title 63, Chapter 46a, Utah Administrative
7520 Rulemaking Act.
7521 (12) Recharge and recovery projects permitted under Chapter 3b, Groundwater
7522 Recharge and Recovery Act, are exempted from this section.
7523 (13) Nothing in this section may be interpreted to require the development,
7524 implementation, or consideration of a groundwater management plan as a prerequisite or
7525 condition to the exercise of the state engineer's enforcement powers under other law, including
7526 powers granted under Section 73-2-25 .
7527 (14) A groundwater management plan adopted in accordance with this section may not
7528 apply to the dewatering of a mine.
7529 (15) (a) A groundwater management plan adopted by the state engineer before May 1,
7530 2006, remains in force and has the same legal effect as it had on the day on which it was
7531 adopted by the state engineer.
7532 (b) If a groundwater management plan that existed before May 1, 2006, is amended on
7533 or after May 1, 2006, the amendment is subject to this section's provisions.

7534 Section 165. Section 73-10-21 is amended to read:
7535 73-10-21. Loans for water systems -- Eligible projects.
7536 This chapter shall apply to all eligible projects of incorporated cities and towns, local
7537 districts under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts,
7538 assessment areas under Title 11, Chapter 42, Assessment Area Act, and special service districts
7539 under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act. Eligible
7540 projects are those for the acquisition, improvement, or construction of water systems used for
7541 the production, supply, transmission, storage, distribution, or treatment of water for cities,
7542 towns, metropolitan water districts, water conservancy districts, improvement districts, special
7543 improvement districts, or special service districts, or the improvement or extension of such
7544 systems.
7545 Section 166. Section 77-7-18 is amended to read:
7546 77-7-18. Citation on misdemeanor or infraction charge.
7547 A peace officer, in lieu of taking a person into custody, any public official of any county
7548 or municipality charged with the enforcement of the law, a port-of-entry agent as defined in
7549 Section 72-1-102 , an animal control officer of a special service district under Title 17D, Chapter
7550 1, Special Service District Act, that is authorized to provide animal control service, and a
7551 volunteer authorized to issue a citation under Section 41-6a-213 may issue and deliver a citation
7552 requiring any person subject to arrest or prosecution on a misdemeanor or infraction charge to
7553 appear at the court of the magistrate before whom the person should be taken pursuant to law if
7554 the person had been arrested.
7555 Section 167. Section 78B-4-509 is amended to read:
7556 78B-4-509. Inherent risks of certain recreational activities -- Claim barred
7557 against county or municipality -- No effect on duty or liability of person participating in
7558 recreational activity or other person.
7559 (1) As used in this section:
7560 (a) "Inherent risks" means those dangers, conditions, and potentials for personal injury
7561 or property damage that are an integral and natural part of participating in a recreational

7562 activity.
7563 (b) "Municipality" has the meaning as defined in Section 10-1-104 .
7564 (c) "Person" includes an individual, regardless of age, maturity, ability, capability, or
7565 experience, and a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or any other form of
7566 business enterprise.
7567 (d) "Recreational activity" includes a rodeo, an equestrian activity, skateboarding,
7568 skydiving, para gliding, hang gliding, roller skating, ice skating, fishing, hiking, walking,
7569 running, jogging, bike riding, or in-line skating on property:
7570 (i) owned, leased, or rented by, or otherwise made available to:
7571 (A) with respect to a claim against a county, the county; and
7572 (B) with respect to a claim against a municipality, the municipality; and
7573 (ii) intended for the specific use in question.
7574 (2) Notwithstanding anything in Sections 78B-5-817 through 78B-5-823 to the
7575 contrary, no person may make a claim against or recover from any of the following entities for
7576 personal injury or property damage resulting from any of the inherent risks of participating in a
7577 recreational activity:
7578 (a) a county, municipality, local district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local
7579 Government Entities - Local Districts, or special service district under Title [17A] 17D, Chapter
7580 [2, Part 13, Utah] 1, Special Service District Act[, or dependent district under Title 17A,
7581 Chapter 3, Dependent Districts]; or
7582 (b) the owner of property that is leased, rented, or otherwise made available to a
7583 county, municipality, local district, or special service district[, or dependent district] for the
7584 purpose of providing or operating a recreational activity.
7585 (3) (a) Nothing in this section may be construed to relieve a person participating in a
7586 recreational activity from an obligation that the person would have in the absence of this section
7587 to exercise due care or from the legal consequences of a failure to exercise due care.
7588 (b) Nothing in this section may be construed to relieve any other person from an
7589 obligation that the person would have in the absence of this section to exercise due care or from

7590 the legal consequences of a failure to exercise due care.
7591 Section 168. Repealer.
7592 This bill repeals:
7593 Section 17A-2-1301, Short title.
7594 Section 17A-2-1302, Definitions.
7595 Section 17A-2-1303, Purpose.
7596 Section 17A-2-1304, Establishing special service districts -- Improvement districts
7597 within special service districts.
7598 Section 17A-2-1305, Establishment of district by resolution based on motion or
7599 petition.
7600 Section 17A-2-1306, Resolution proposing district to include part of another
7601 subdivision or district -- Action by governing body of other entity -- Jurisdiction on
7602 approval.
7603 Section 17A-2-1307, Notice of intention to establish district -- Hearing.
7604 Section 17A-2-1308, Publication of notice.
7605 Section 17A-2-1309, Protests -- Procedures -- Effect.
7606 Section 17A-2-1310, Petition or protest -- Corporation or property held by more
7607 than one person.
7608 Section 17A-2-1311, Adoption of resolution -- Notice to lieutenant governor --
7609 Judicial review.
7610 Section 17A-2-1312, General obligation bonds authorized by petition of property
7611 owners -- Contest.
7612 Section 17A-2-1313, Service district as separate body politic -- Supervision and
7613 control by governing authority.
7614 Section 17A-2-1314, Rights, powers, and authority of special service district.
7615 Section 17A-2-1315, Designation of assessment area by special service district.
7616 Section 17A-2-1316, Borrowing power -- Issuance of bonds and notes -- Use of
7617 proceeds.

7618 Section 17A-2-1317, Bonds payable from taxes -- Limitations.
7619 Section 17A-2-1318, Guaranteed bonds.
7620 Section 17A-2-1319, Service district indebtedness not enforceable against state,
7621 county, municipality, school district, other public corporations.
7622 Section 17A-2-1320, Fees or charges -- Penalties for delinquencies.
7623 Section 17A-2-1321, Delinquent fees and charges.
7624 Section 17A-2-1322, Tax levy and bonds -- Approval by majority of electors voting
7625 in election -- Procedure for election.
7626 Section 17A-2-1323, Intent of Legislature regarding bond elections -- Validation of
7627 elections.
7628 Section 17A-2-1324, Effect of voter approval.
7629 Section 17A-2-1325, Exceptions to election requirements.
7630 Section 17A-2-1326, Administrative control board -- Powers -- Compensation.
7631 Section 17A-2-1327, Adding additional services -- Annexing additional area --
7632 Notice to lieutenant governor.
7633 Section 17A-2-1328, Discontinuance of service.
7634 Section 17A-2-1329, Dissolution of district -- Withdrawal of area from district --
7635 Notice to lieutenant governor.
7636 Section 17A-2-1330, Other districts not affected -- Election by other districts to
7637 become service districts.
7638 Section 17A-2-1331, Part controlling in conflict of laws.
7639 Section 17A-2-1332, Validation of creation and prior actions of districts.
7640 Section 17A-3-401, Short title.
7641 Section 17A-3-402, Purpose.
7642 Section 17A-3-403, Definitions.
7643 Section 17A-3-404, Establishment of improvement district -- Tax levy -- Parking
7644 and business improvement fund.
7645 Section 17A-3-405, Resolution -- Petition.

7646 Section 17A-3-406, Notice of intention to establish district -- Contents.
7647 Section 17A-3-407, Publication or posting of notice.
7648 Section 17A-3-408, Protests -- Hearing -- Abandonment.
7649 Section 17A-3-409, Signature of petition or protest on behalf of business.
7650 Section 17A-3-410, Resolution -- Contents -- Judicial review.
7651 Section 17A-3-411, Funds of district -- Budget -- Collection -- Investment --
7652 Expenditures.
7653 Section 17A-3-412, Control of district by governing authority -- Administrative
7654 board of directors -- Powers.
7655 Section 17A-3-413, Disestablishment of districts -- Hearing -- Resolution.
7656 Section 17A-3-414, Disestablishment of districts -- Disposition of assets and
7657 liabilities.
7658 Section 17A-3-801, Organization -- Petition.
7659 Section 17A-3-802, Hearing -- Factors considered -- Action on petition -- Denial.
7660 Section 17A-3-803, Consolidation, division, or termination of district -- Action on
7661 petition.
7662 Section 17A-3-804, Governing body of districts -- Candidates' qualifications --
7663 Procedures -- Termination of office upon consolidation, division, or termination -- New
7664 elections.
7665 Section 17A-3-805, District a political subdivision -- Functions, powers, and duties.
7666 Section 17A-3-806, Land use recommendations authorized.
7667 Section 17A-3-807, District courts have jurisdiction.
7668 Section 17A-3-1201, Districts for road improvements.
7669 Section 17A-3-1202, Abutting property to bear cost -- Taxation.
7670 Section 17A-3-1203, Notice of proposed tax -- Objections.
7671 Section 17A-3-1204, Hearings.
7672 Section 17A-3-1205, Tax becomes a lien.
7673 Section 17A-3-1206, Manner of collecting -- Delinquencies.

7674 Section 17A-3-1301, Short title.
7675 Section 17A-3-1302, Declaration of legislative intent.
7676 Section 17A-3-1303, Expenditure of public funds.
7677 Section 17A-3-1304, Power of counties, cities, and towns.
7678 Section 17A-3-1305, Existing powers to acquire private property not limited.
7679 Section 17A-3-1306, Existing powers with respect to historic areas not limited.
7680 Section 169. Coordinating S.B. 47 with H.B. 77 -- Technical amendments.
7681 If this S.B. 47 and H.B. 77, Personal Property Tax Amendments, both pass, it is the
7682 intent of the Legislature that the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel, in
7683 preparing the Utah Code database for publication, modify Subsection 59-2-924.2 (5) in H.B. 77
7684 to read:
7685 "(5) (a) This Subsection (5) applies to each county that:
7686 (i) establishes a countywide special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special
7687 Service District Act, to provide jail service, as provided in Subsection 17D-1-201 (10); and
7688 (ii) levies a property tax on behalf of the special service district under Section
7689 17D-1-105 .
7690 (b) (i) The certified tax rate of each county to which this Subsection (5) applies shall be
7691 decreased by the amount necessary to reduce county revenues by the same amount of revenues
7692 that will be generated by the property tax imposed on behalf of the special service district.
7693 (ii) Each decrease under Subsection (5)(b)(i) shall occur contemporaneously with the
7694 levy on behalf of the special service district under Section 17D-1-105."