Utah Code § 10-2a-501

Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 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 10-2-403 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.

Utah Code § 10-2a-501

Added by Chapter 534, 2024 General Session ,§ 4, eff. 5/1/2024.