Full text of Utah Utah Code § 2a-501 — Definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 2a-501. Definitions.
Effective 5/7/2025 10-2a-501.
Definitions. As used in this part:
(1)
"Affordable housing" means housing occupied or reserved for occupancy by households with a gross household income equal to or less than 80% of the median gross income of the applicable municipal or county statistical area for households of the same size.
(2)
"Board," in relation to a preliminary municipality, means the same as a council described in Section 10-3b-402.
(3)
"Board chair," in relation to a preliminary municipality, means the same as a mayor described in Section 10-3b-402.
(4)
"Contiguous" means the same as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-102.
(5)
"Feasibility consultant" means a person or firm:
(a)
with expertise in the processes and economics of local government; and
(b)
who is independent of, and not affiliated with, a county or a sponsor of a petition to incorporate a preliminary municipality under this part.
(6)
"Feasibility request" means a request, described in Section 10-2a-502, for a feasibility study for the proposed incorporation of a preliminary municipality.
(7)
"Initial landowners" means the persons who owned the land within the proposed preliminary municipality area when the person filed the feasibility request under Section 20A-1-501.
(8)
"Municipal service" means the same as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-102.
(9)
"Pending annexation area" means an area proposed for annexation in an annexation petition described in Section 10-2-806 that is filed before, and is still pending when, a person files the applicable request for a feasibility study under Section 10-2a-502.
(10)
"Primary sponsor contact" means:
(a)
in relation to a feasibility request:
(i)
the individual designated as the primary sponsor contact for a feasibility request under Subsection 10-2a-502(5)(c); or
(ii)
an individual designated, in writing, by the initial landowners if a replacement primary sponsor contact is needed; or
(b)
in relation to a petition for incorporation of a preliminary municipality:
(i)
the individual designated as the primary sponsor contact for a petition for incorporation of a preliminary municipality under Subsection 10-2a-507(1)(d); or
(ii)
an individual designated, in writing, by the initial landowners if a replacement primary sponsor contact is needed.
(11)
"Private," in relation to real property, means taxable real property.
(12)
"Proposed preliminary municipality area" means the area proposed for incorporation as a preliminary municipality in a feasibility request.
(13)
"System infrastructure" means, as shown on the map or plat described in Subsection 10-2a-502(5)(e) for the proposed preliminary municipal area:
(a)
the main thoroughfares within the proposed preliminary municipal area, including the roads that connect the proposed preliminary municipality area to an existing road outside the proposed preliminary municipality area; and
(b)
the main lines that will connect a utility to the proposed preliminary municipality area, including the stubs that will connect the main lines to the development in the proposed preliminary municipality area.
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