Utah § 11-65-101 - Definitions.

Effective 5/1/2024
11-65-101.  Definitions.
     As used in this chapter:

(1)	"Adjacent political subdivision" means a political subdivision of the state with a boundary that abuts the lake authority boundary or includes lake authority land.

(2)	"Board" means the lake authority's governing body, created in Section 11-65-301.

(3)	"Lake authority" means the Utah Lake Authority, created in Section 11-65-201.

(4)	"Lake authority boundary" means the boundary: (a) defined by recorded boundary settlement agreements between private landowners and the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands; and (b) that separates privately owned land from Utah Lake sovereign land.

(5)	"Lake authority land" means land on the lake side of the lake authority boundary.

(6)

"Management" means work to coordinate and facilitate the improvement of Utah Lake, including work to enhance the long-term viability and health of Utah Lake and to produce economic, aesthetic, recreational, environmental, and other benefits for the state, consistent with the strategies, policies, and objectives described in this chapter.

(7)	"Management plan" means a plan to conceptualize, design, facilitate, coordinate, encourage, and bring about the management of the lake authority land to achieve the policies and objectives described in Section 11-65-203.

(8)	"Nonvoting member" means an individual appointed as a member of the board under Subsection 11-65-302(6) who does not have the power to vote on matters of lake authority business.

(9)	"Project area" means an area that is identified in a project area plan as the area where the management described in the project area plan will occur.

(10)	"Project area budget" means a multiyear projection of annual or cumulative revenues and expenses and other fiscal matters pertaining to a project area.

(11)	"Project area plan" means a written plan that, after the plan's effective date, manages activity within a project area within the scope of a management plan.

(12)

"Public entity" means: (a) the state, including each department, division, or other agency of the state; or (b) a county, city, town, school district, special district, special service district, interlocal cooperation entity, community reinvestment agency, or other political subdivision of the state.

(13)

"Publicly owned infrastructure and improvements": (a) means infrastructure, improvements, facilities, or buildings that: (i) benefit the public; and (ii) (A) are owned by a public entity or a utility; or (B) are publicly maintained or operated by a public entity; and (b) includes: (i) facilities, lines, or systems that provide: (A) water, chilled water, or steam; or (B) sewer, storm drainage, natural gas, electricity, energy storage, clean energy, microgrids, or telecommunications service; and (ii) streets, roads, curbs, gutters, sidewalks, walkways, solid waste facilities, parking facilities, and public transportation facilities.

(14)	"Sovereign land" means land: (a) lying below the ordinary high water mark of a navigable body of water at the date of statehood; and (b) owned by the state by virtue of the state's sovereignty.

(15)	"Utah Lake" includes all waters of Utah Lake and all land, whether or not submerged under water, within the lake authority boundary.

(16)	"Voting member" means an individual appointed as a member of the board under Subsection 11-65-302(2).

Amended by Chapter 53, 2024 General Session
Amended by Chapter 438, 2024 General Session