This document includes House Committee Amendments incorporated into the bill on Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 7:35 AM by pflowers.
Representative Michael J. Petersen proposes the following substitute bill:


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COUNTY OFFICE CONSOLIDATION AMENDMENTS

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2023 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Michael J. Petersen

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Senate Sponsor: David G. Buxton

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7     LONG TITLE
8     General Description:
9          This bill amends the requirements for a county legislative body related to consolidation
10     or separation of county offices.
11     Highlighted Provisions:
12          This bill:
13          ▸     changes the deadline for a county legislative body to enact an ordinance that
14     consolidates or separates county offices.
15     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
16          None
17     Other Special Clauses:
18          None
19     Utah Code Sections Affected:
20     AMENDS:
21          17-16-3, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2006, Chapter 3
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23     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
24          Section 1. Section 17-16-3 is amended to read:
25          17-16-3. Consolidation of offices.

26          (1) A county legislative body may, unless prohibited by Subsection (2), pass an
27     ordinance that:
28          (a) consolidates county offices and establishes the duties of those consolidated offices;
29          (b) separates any previously consolidated offices and reconsolidates them; or
30          (c) separates any previously consolidated offices without reconsolidating them.
31          (2) A county legislative body may not:
32          (a) consolidate the offices of county commissioner, county council member, or county
33     treasurer with the office of county auditor;
34          (b) consolidate the office of county executive with the office of county auditor, unless a
35     referendum approving that consolidation passes; or
36          (c) consolidate the offices of county commissioner, county council member, county
37     executive, county assessor, or county auditor with the office of county treasurer.
38          (3) Each county legislative body shall ensure that any ordinance consolidating or
39     separating county offices:
40          (a) is enacted before the [February] Ĥ→ [
December] November ←Ĥ 1 of the year before
40a     the year in which
41     county officers are elected; and
42          (b) takes effect on the first Monday in January after the year in which county officers
43     are elected.
44          (4) (a) Each county legislative body shall:
45          (i) enact an ordinance by February 1, 2010, separating any county offices that are
46     prohibited from consolidation by this section; and
47          (ii) publish, by February 15, 2010, a notice once in a newspaper of general circulation
48     in the county identifying the county offices that will be filled in the November 2010 election.
49          (b) (i) If a county legislative body has, by February 1, 2006, enacted an ordinance, in
50     compliance with this Subsection (4) then in effect, separating county offices that are prohibited
51     from consolidation by this section, the county legislative body may repeal that ordinance.
52          (ii) If a county legislative body has published notice in a newspaper identifying the
53     county offices that will be filled in the November 2006 election, and that notice, because of a
54     repeal of an ordinance under Subsection (4)(b)(i), is incorrect, the county legislative body shall
55     publish notice once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county indicating that the
56     previous notice was incorrect and correctly identifying the county offices that will be filled in

57     the November 2006 election.