Full text of Utah Utah Code § 10-20-301 — Ordinance establishing planning commission required -- Ordinance requirements -- Compensation., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
Each municipality shall enact an ordinance establishing a planning commission.
(b)
The ordinance shall:
(i)
include the number and terms of the planning commission members and, if the municipality chooses, alternate members;
(ii)
provide procedures for appointing a planning commission member;
(iii)
provide procedures for filling vacancies on the planning commission;
(iv)
provide procedures for removing a planning commission member from the planning commission and specify that:
(A)
in a form of government described in Section 10-3b-301 or 10-3b-401, and subject to any delegation of authority under Subsection 10-3b-303(1) or 10-3b-403(1), the legislative body may remove a planning commission member; or
(B)
in a form of government described in Section 10-3b-202, the mayor may remove a planning commission member;
(v)
except as provided in Subsection (1)(b)(vi), describe the causes for which a planning commission member may be removed from the planning commission, which shall include:
(A)
using public funds for a political purpose under Title 20A, Chapter 11, Part 12, Political Activities of Public Entities Act;
(B)
violating a provision of Title 10, Chapter 3, Part 13, Municipal Officers' and Employees' Ethics Act; and
(C)
acting with the intent to influence a land use decision or an appeal of a pending land use application in a manner that creates actual impermissible bias or an unacceptable risk of impermissible bias in the planning commission member's administrative or quasi-judicial duties;
(vi)
provide that a planning commission member deliberating about a specific pending land use application in a planning commission meeting with municipal staff, an elected official, or the land use applicant is not cause for removing a planning commission member from the planning commission;
(vii)
provide requirements for when a planning commission member shall recuse oneself from deliberating or voting on certain land use applications;
(viii)
define the authority of the planning commission;
(ix)
subject to Subsection (1)(c), include rules of order and procedure for use by the planning commission in a public meeting; and
(x)
include other details relating to the organization and procedures of the planning commission.
The legislative body may authorize a member to receive per diem and travel expenses for meetings actually attended, in accordance with Section 11-55-103.
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