Utah Code — 10
Browse 670 sections in division 10 of the Utah code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 10-1-103. Construction.
- § 10-1-104. Definitions.
- § 10-1-105. No changes intended.
- § 10-1-106. Scope of title.
- § 10-1-107. Municipalities.
- § 10-1-108. Cumulative powers -- Powers not in derogation of state agencies.
- § 10-1-109. Saving clause.
- § 10-1-111. Existing indebtedness.
- § 10-1-113. Severability clause.
- § 10-1-118. Changing the name of a municipality.
- § 10-1-201. Municipalities as political subdivisions of the state.
- § 10-1-201.5. Metro townships converted to municipalities -- Classification -- Form of government -- Continuity of operations.
- § 10-1-202. Power to sue, contract, adopt municipal name and seal.
- § 10-1-203. License fees and taxes -- Application information to be transmitted to the county assessor.
- § 10-1-203.5. Disproportionate rental fee -- Good landlord training program -- Fee reduction.
- § 10-1-204. Registration as a local government entity.
- § 10-1-205. Training requirements.
- § 10-1-206. Sister municipality restriction.
- § 10-1-301. Title.
- § 10-1-302. Purpose and intent.
- § 10-1-303. Definitions.
- § 10-1-304. Energy sales and use tax -- Rate -- Imposition or repeal of tax -- Tax rate change -- Effective date -- Notice requirements -- Exemptions.
- § 10-1-305. Municipal energy sales and use tax ordinance provisions.
- § 10-1-306. Rules for delivered value and point of sale.
- § 10-1-307. Administration, collection, and enforcement of taxes by commission -- Distribution of revenues -- Administrative charge -- Collection of taxes by municipality.
- § 10-1-308. Report of tax collections -- Allocation when location of taxpayer cannot be accurately determined.
- § 10-1-310. Existing energy franchise taxes or contractual franchise fees.
- § 10-1-401. Title.
- § 10-1-402. Definitions.
- § 10-1-403. Levy of telecommunications license tax -- Recovery from customers -- Enactment, repeal, or change in rate of tax -- Annexation.
- § 10-1-404. Municipal telecommunications license tax ordinance provisions.
- § 10-1-405. Collection of taxes by commission -- Uniform interlocal agreement -- Administrative charge -- Rulemaking authority.
- § 10-1-406. Limitation of other telecommunications taxes or fees.
- § 10-1-407. Attributing the gross receipts from telecommunications service to a municipality -- Rate impact.
- § 10-1-408. Procedure for taxes erroneously recovered from customers.
- § 10-1-410. Transactions consisting of telecommunications service and nontelecommunications services.
- § 10-2-301. Classification of municipalities according to population.
- § 10-2-302. Change of class of municipality.
- § 10-2-303. Effect of change in class.
- § 10-2-306. Judicial notice taken of existence and class.
- § 10-2-501. Municipal disconnection -- Definitions -- Request for disconnection -- Requirements upon filing request -- Notice.
- § 10-2-502.5. Hearing on request for disconnection -- Notice -- Determination by municipal legislative body -- Petition in district court.
- § 10-2-502.7. Court action.
- § 10-2-506. Taxes to meet municipal obligations.
- § 10-2-507. Disconnection ordinance or decree -- Filing of notice and plat -- Recording requirements -- Effective date of disconnection -- Costs of disconnection.
- § 10-2-509. Costs.
- § 10-2-510. Boundary adjustment procedure not affected.
- § 10-2-601. Consolidation of two or more municipalities -- Certification of petition signatures -- Removal of signature.
- § 10-2-602. Contents of resolution or petition.
- § 10-2-603. Plan of consolidation.
- § 10-2-604. Duty of county legislative body when petition is by electors.
- § 10-2-605. Effect of plan of consolidation.
- § 10-2-606. Public hearings.
- § 10-2-607. Notice of election.
- § 10-2-608. Contents of notice.
- § 10-2-609. Election on consolidation.
- § 10-2-610. Canvass of election -- Notice of results -- Filing of notice and plat -- Recording requirements.
- § 10-2-611. When consolidation effective -- Disincorporation of original municipalities -- Effective date for assessment purposes.
- § 10-2-612. New municipality -- Ownership of property -- Indebtedness of original municipalities.
- § 10-2-613. Governing body until next election.
- § 10-2-614. Ordinances, resolutions, and orders.
- § 10-2-701. Petition for disincorporation -- Validity -- Certification of petition signatures -- Removal of signature -- District court order for election.
- § 10-2-701.5. Form of petition.
- § 10-2-702. District court to examine petition -- Set date for election.
- § 10-2-703. Providing notice of election.
- § 10-2-704. Form of ballot.
- § 10-2-705. Judgment -- Determination of claims.
- § 10-2-706. Taxes to meet municipal obligations.
- § 10-2-707. Disposition of records.
- § 10-2-708. Notice of disincorporation.
- § 10-2-709. Expenses of election.
- § 10-2-710. Limitation on jurisdiction of court to consider disincorporation petition.
- § 10-2-711. Dissolution by the county legislative body.
- § 10-2-712. Power of court -- Articles of dissolution -- Notice to lieutenant governor -- Recording requirements -- Effective date of dissolution.
- § 10-2-801. Definitions.
- § 10-2-802. Valuation of private real property -- Determining consent to petition or protest by owners of real property.
- § 10-2-803. Annexation policy plan.
- § 10-2-804. Annexation -- Limitations.
- § 10-2-805. Cross-county annexation -- Requirements.
- § 10-2-806. Annexation petition -- Requirements -- Notice required before filing.
- § 10-2-807. Acceptance or denial of an annexation petition -- Petition certification process -- Modified petition.
- § 10-2-808. Notice of certification -- Providing notice of petition.
- § 10-2-809. Boundary commission -- Creation -- Members -- Terms -- Chair -- Boundary commission quorum -- Municipal selection committee.
- § 10-2-810. Protest to annexation petition -- Planning advisory area planning commission recommendation -- Petition requirements -- Disposition of petition if no protest filed -- Public hearing and notice.
- § 10-2-811. Public hearing of protest -- Notice -- Decision -- Municipal legislative action -- Judicial review.
- § 10-2-812. Annexation of an island or peninsula without a petition -- Notice -- Hearing.
- § 10-2-813. Filing of notice and plat -- Recording and notice requirements -- Effective date of annexation or boundary adjustment.
- § 10-2-814. Automatic annexations in counties of the first class and second class -- Notice.
- § 10-2-815. Conclusive presumption of annexation.
- § 10-2-816. Bonds not affected by annexations -- Payment of property taxes.
- § 10-2-817. Electric utility service in annexed area -- Reimbursement for value of facilities -- Liability -- Arbitration.
- § 10-2-901. Definitions.
- § 10-2-902. Valuation of private real property -- Determining consent to petition or protest by owners of real property.
- § 10-2-903. Municipal boundary adjustment -- Notice and hearing -- Protest.
- § 10-2-904. Bonds not affected by municipal boundary adjustment -- Payment of property taxes.
- § 10-2-905. Municipal boundary adjustment effect on local districts and special service districts.
- § 2a-102. Definitions.
- § 2a-103. Incorporation of a contiguous area -- Incorporation of a community council area -- Incorporation involving more than one county.
- § 2a-104. Elections governed by the Election Code.
- § 2a-106. Feasibility request filed before changes to law take effect.
- § 2a-107. Effect of incorporation of community council area.
- § 2a-201.5. Qualifications for incorporation.
- § 2a-202. Feasibility request -- Requirements -- Limitations.-- Request to Utah Population Committee.
- § 2a-204. Processing a feasibility request -- Certification or rejection -- Processing priority.
- § 2a-204.3. Notice to property owners -- First public hearing.
- § 2a-204.5. Notice to owner of property -- Exclusion or inclusion of property from or in proposed municipality.
- § 2a-205. Feasibility study -- Feasibility study consultant -- Qualifications for proceeding with incorporation.
- § 2a-205.5. Additional feasibility consultant considerations for proposed incorporation of community council area -- Additional feasibility study requirements.
- § 2a-206. Modified feasibility request -- Supplemental feasibility study.
- § 2a-207. Additional public hearings on feasibility study results -- Notice of hearings.
- § 2a-208. Petition for incorporation -- Requirements and form -- Removal of signature.
- § 2a-209. Processing of petition by county clerk -- Certification or rejection -- Petition modification.
- § 2a-210. Incorporation election -- Notice of election -- Voter information pamphlet.
- § 2a-211. Ballot used in incorporation election.
- § 2a-212. Notification to lieutenant governor of incorporation election results.
- § 2a-213. Determination of number of council members -- Determination of election districts -- Hearings and notice.
- § 2a-214. Notice of number of commission or council members to be elected and of district boundaries -- Declaration of candidacy for municipal office.
- § 2a-215. Election of officers of new municipality -- Primary and final election dates -- Notice of election -- County clerk duties -- Candidate duties -- Occupation of office.
- § 2a-216. Notification to lieutenant governor of election of municipal officers.
- § 2a-217. Filing of notice and approved final local entity plat with lieutenant governor -- Effective date of incorporation -- Necessity of recording documents and effect of not recording.
- § 2a-218. Powers of officers-elect.
- § 2a-219. Division of municipal service revenues -- County may provide startup funds.
- § 2a-220. Costs of incorporation -- Fees established by lieutenant governor.
- § 2a-501. Definitions.
- § 2a-502. Incorporation of a preliminary municipality -- Feasibility request -- Requirements.
- § 2a-503. Processing a feasibility request -- Certification or rejection -- Processing priority -- Determination by the Utah Population Committee.
- § 2a-504. Feasibility study -- Feasibility study consultant -- Qualifications for proceeding with incorporation.
- § 2a-505. Modified feasibility request -- Supplemental feasibility study.
- § 2a-506. Public hearings on feasibility study results -- Notice of hearings.
- § 2a-507. Petition for incorporation -- Requirements and form.
- § 2a-508. Processing of petition by lieutenant governor -- Certification or rejection -- Petition modification.
- § 2a-509. Governance of preliminary municipality -- Utilities -- Road maintenance.
- § 2a-510. Transitioning from a preliminary municipality to a town -- Petition -- Election of officers.
- § 10-3-201. Municipal general election -- Terms of office.
- § 10-3-202. Terms of elected municipal officers.
- § 10-3-205. Election of officers in municipalities operating under a city council form of government.
- § 10-3-205.5. At-large election of officers -- Election of commissioners or council members.
- § 10-3-208. Campaign finance disclosure in municipal election.
- § 10-3-209. Personal use expenditure -- Authorized and prohibited uses of campaign funds -- Enforcement -- Penalties.
- § 10-3-209.1. Municipal office candidate -- Year-end summary report -- Penalty.
- § 10-3-209.3. Municipal office candidate -- Final summary report -- Termination of duty to report.
- § 10-3-301. Notice of offices to be filled and declaration of candidacy period -- Eligibility and residency requirements for elected municipal office -- Mayor and recorder limitations.
- § 10-3-301.5. Conflict of interest disclosure statement for municipal office -- Required when filing for candidacy -- Public availability -- Enforcement.
- § 10-3-302. Mayoral or council vacancy of a municipality.
- § 10-3-502. Regular and special council meetings.
- § 10-3-504. Quorum defined.
- § 10-3-505. Compelling attendance at meetings of legislative body.
- § 10-3-506. How the vote is taken.
- § 10-3-507. Minimum vote required.
- § 10-3-508. Reconsideration.
- § 10-3-601. Business of governing body conducted only in open meeting.
- § 10-3-603. Public records.
- § 10-3-604. Annual examination of municipal finances -- Publication of results.
- § 10-3-605. Penalty.
- § 10-3-606. Rules of order and procedure.
- § 10-3-607. Expulsion of members prohibited -- Exception for disorderly conduct.
- § 10-3-608. Rules of conduct for the public.
- § 10-3-609. Action on committee reports.
- § 10-3-610. Requiring attendance of witnesses-- Production of evidence.
- § 10-3-701. Legislative power exercised by ordinance.
- § 10-3-702. Extent of power exercised by ordinance.
- § 10-3-702.1. Family impact consideration before enacting ordinance.
- § 10-3-703. Criminal penalties for violation of ordinance -- Civil penalties prohibited -- Exceptions.
- § 10-3-703.7. Administrative proceedings -- Penalty for code violation.
- § 10-3-704. Form of ordinance.
- § 10-3-705. Requirements as to form -- Effective date.
- § 10-3-706. Revision of ordinances.
- § 10-3-707. Power to codify ordinances.
- § 10-3-708. Arrangement of ordinances.
- § 10-3-709. Repeal of conflicting provisions -- Title.
- § 10-3-710. Publication in book, pamphlet, or looseleaf form -- State statutes.
- § 10-3-711. Publication and posting of ordinances.
- § 10-3-712. Effective date.
- § 10-3-713. Recording, numbering, and certification of passage.
- § 10-3-714. Contents, dates, publication proved under seal.
- § 10-3-715. Municipal ordinances received in evidence.
- § 10-3-716. Fines and forfeitures -- Disposition.
- § 10-3-717. Purpose of resolutions.
- § 10-3-718. Form of resolution.
- § 10-3-719. Resolutions need no publication effective date.
- § 10-3-801. Administrative powers in cities of the first class.
- § 10-3-803. Officers limited to one office -- Exceptions.
- § 10-3-805. Administrative powers in cities of the second class.
- § 10-3-818. Salaries in municipalities -- Notice.
- § 10-3-826. Official neglect and misconduct class A misdemeanor -- Removal from office.
- § 10-3-827. Oaths.
- § 10-3-828. Oath -- Filing.
- § 10-3-829. Acts of officials not voided.
- § 10-3-831. Crime insurance.
- § 10-3-902. City engineer required to be licensed.
- § 10-3-903. City engineer -- Custodian of records of public improvements.
- § 10-3-904. Books and supplies -- Recording, filing, and inspection. and inspection -- Filing -- Inspection.
- § 10-3-905. Fees to be paid in advance.
- § 10-3-906. Seal.
- § 10-3-907. Recordation not to interfere with other recordation.
- § 10-3-908. Noncompliance a misdemeanor.
- § 10-3-909. Police and fire departments in cities of the first and second class.
- § 10-3-910. Heads of departments and subordinate officers.
- § 10-3-912. Chief of department may suspend subordinates.
- § 10-3-913. Authority of chief of police -- Oversight.
- § 10-3-914. Police officers -- Authority.
- § 10-3-915. Rights to arrest without warrant.
- § 10-3-916. Appointment of recorder and treasurer in a city of third, fourth, or fifth class or a town -- Vacancies in office.
- § 10-3-917. Engineer in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
- § 10-3-918. Chief of police or marshal in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
- § 10-3-919. Powers, duties, and obligations of police chief, marshal, and their assistants in a city of the third, fourth, or fifth class or town.
- § 10-3-928. Attorney duties -- Deputy attorneys.
- § 10-3-1001. Subordinates in police, health, and fire departments to be appointed from list.
- § 10-3-1002. Classified civil service -- Places of employment constituting classified civil service -- Appointments to and from classified civil service.
- § 10-3-1003. Civil service commission -- Number, term, vacancies.
- § 10-3-1004. Qualifications of commissioners -- Salary -- Removal.
- § 10-3-1005. Organization of commission -- Secretary -- Offices.
- § 10-3-1006. Rules and regulations -- Printing and distribution.
- § 10-3-1007. Examinations.
- § 10-3-1008. Appointments from civil service list -- Probation period.
- § 10-3-1009. Certification of applicants for position -- Number -- Eligible lists, removal.
- § 10-3-1010. Promotions -- Basis -- Certification of applicants.
- § 10-3-1011. Temporary employees.
- § 10-3-1012. Suspension or discharge by department head -- Appeal to commission -- Hearing and decision.
- § 10-3-1012.5. Appeal to Court of Appeals -- Scope of review.
- § 10-3-1013. Annual and special reports by commission.
- § 10-3-1103. Sickness, disability, and death benefits.
- § 10-3-1104. Library personnel -- Monthly wage deductions and matching sums -- Time of inclusion.
- § 10-3-1105. Municipal employees -- Duration and termination of employment -- Exceptions.
- § 10-3-1106. Discharge, suspension without pay, or involuntary transfer -- Appeals -- Board -- Procedure.
- § 10-3-1107. Cost of living adjustment -- Price index used.
- § 10-3-1108. Political activity of municipal officer or employee.
- § 10-3-1109. Compliance with Labor Code requirements.
- § 10-3-1109.5. Overtime for law enforcement personnel.
- § 10-3-1110. Exemption from state licensure by Division of Real Estate.
- § 10-3-1111. Municipality required to provide leave to a legislator on an authorized legislative day.
- § 10-3-1301. Short title.
- § 10-3-1302. Purpose.
- § 10-3-1303. Definitions.
- § 10-3-1303.5. Statutory construction.
- § 10-3-1304. Use of office for personal benefit prohibited.
- § 10-3-1305. Compensation for assistance in transaction involving municipality -- Public disclosure and filing required.
- § 10-3-1306. Interest in business entity regulated by municipality -- Disclosure statement required.
- § 10-3-1307. Interest in business entity doing business with municipality -- Disclosure.
- § 10-3-1308. Investment creating conflict of interest with duties -- Disclosure.
- § 10-3-1309. Inducing officer or employee to violate part prohibited.
- § 10-3-1310. Penalties for violation -- Dismissal from employment or removal from office.
- § 10-3-1311. Municipal ethics commission -- Complaints charging violations.
- § 10-3-1312. Violation of disclosure requirements -- Penalties -- Rescission of prohibited transaction.
- § 10-3-1313. Annual conflict of interest disclosure -- City recorder or town clerk -- Posting of written disclosure statement -- Penalties.
- § 3b-101. Title.
- § 3b-102. Definitions.
- § 3b-103. Forms of municipal government -- Form of government for towns -- Former council-manager form.
- § 3b-104. Powers and duties of mayor in six-member council and five-member council forms of government.
- § 3b-105. Municipal council in six-member council and five-member council forms of government.
- § 3b-201. Separate branches of government under a council-mayor form of government.
- § 3b-202. Mayor in council-mayor form of government.
- § 3b-203. Council in a council-mayor form of government.
- § 3b-204. Presenting council action to mayor -- Veto -- Reconsideration -- When ordinance, tax levy, or appropriation takes effect.
- § 3b-205. Rules and regulations by municipal officers.
- § 3b-301. Municipal government powers vested in a six-member council.
- § 3b-302. Mayor in six-member council form of government -- Mayor pro tempore.
- § 3b-303. Council in six-member council form of government.
- § 3b-401. Municipal government powers vested in a five-member council.
- § 3b-402. Mayor in a five-member council form of government.
- § 3b-403. Council in a five-member council form of government.
- § 3b-601. Authority to change to another form of municipal government.
- § 3b-602. Voter approval required for a change in the form of government.
- § 3b-603. Resolution or petition proposing a change in the form of government.
- § 3b-604. Limitations on adoption of a resolution and filing of a petition.
- § 3b-605. Ballot form.
- § 3b-606. Election of officers after a change in the form of government.
- § 3b-607. Effective date of change in the form of government.
- § 10-5-101. Short title.
- § 10-5-102. Applicability.
- § 10-5-102.5. Definitions.
- § 10-5-103. Withholding state money of town failing to file budget.
- § 10-5-104. Fiscal year.
- § 10-5-105. Revenue and expenditure records.
- § 10-5-106. Funds for which budget prepared.
- § 10-5-107. Tentative budgets required for public inspection -- Contents -- Adoption of tentative budget.
- § 10-5-107.5. Transfer of enterprise fund money to another fund -- Notice.
- § 10-5-108. Budget hearing -- Notice -- Adjustments.
- § 10-5-109. Adoption of budgets -- Filing.
- § 10-5-110. Budgets effective for year -- Amendment -- Public access.
- § 10-5-111. Basis for property tax levy.
- § 10-5-112. Property tax levy set by ordinance -- Maximum -- Certification.
- § 10-5-112.4. Property taxes levied for specified services -- Special revenue fund -- Limitations on expenditures.
- § 10-5-112.5. Property tax levy for culinary water, wastewater treatment, hospitals, and recreational facilities.
- § 10-5-113. Accumulation of retained earnings or fund balance -- Limit as to general fund -- Reserve for capital improvements.
- § 10-5-114. Appropriations limited to estimated revenue.
- § 10-5-115. Expenditures limited to appropriations -- Obligations in excess invalid -- Processing claims required.
- § 10-5-116. Transfer of unencumbered appropriation balance.
- § 10-5-117. Increasing budget total of fund.
- § 10-5-118. Emergency expenditures.
- § 10-5-119. Special fund balance -- Disposition when fund no longer required.
- § 10-5-120. Loans between funds -- Bonds purchased by funds.
- § 10-5-121. Records of council proceedings -- Clerk's records as evidence.
- § 10-5-122. Signing and record of contracts by clerk.
- § 10-5-123. Fund records maintained -- Pre-audit of claims and demands -- Certifications on check copy -- Bids received and advertisement records -- Time for keeping.
- § 10-5-124. Warrants tendered for claims.
- § 10-5-125. Treasurer -- Duties.
- § 10-5-126. Receipts for payments to town -- Filing copies.
- § 10-5-127. Signing of checks -- Determination of sufficiency of account.
- § 10-5-128. Deposit of town funds -- Commingling with personal funds prohibited -- Suspension from office for unauthorized use or profit from town funds.