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Utah Code § 10-2a-501

Definitions

Amended by Chapter 399, 2025 General Session

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.

Official source: Utah State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Utah statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.