Chapter

Powers and Duties of Municipalities

Title 10 — Utah Municipal Code §§ 10-8-1–10-8-94

Utah Code § 10-8-1— Control of finances and property
Utah Code § 10-8-1.5— Authority to make benefits generally available to employees, their dependents, and an adult designee -- Registry authorized -- Limitations
Utah Code § 10-8-1.7— Use of incremental tax revenue for relocation expenses of displaced mobile home park residents
Utah Code § 10-8-2— Appropriations -- Acquisition and disposal of property -- Municipal authority -- Corporate purpose -- Procedure -- Notice of intent to acquire real property
Utah Code § 10-8-2.5— Prohibition against spending certain transportation funds
Utah Code § 10-8-3— Tax districts
Utah Code § 10-8-4— Special taxes and licenses
Utah Code § 10-8-5— Erection and care of buildings
Utah Code § 10-8-6— Borrowing power -- Warrants and bonds
Utah Code § 10-8-7— Refunding bonds -- Purpose of issuance
Utah Code § 10-8-8— Streets, parks, airports, parking facilities, public grounds, and pedestrian malls
Utah Code § 10-8-8.6— Widening a street or alley
Utah Code § 10-8-9— Bathhouses, playgrounds
Utah Code § 10-8-10— Trees
Utah Code § 10-8-11— Streets -- Encroachments, lighting, sprinkling, cleaning
Utah Code § 10-8-13— Conduits, drains, etc
Utah Code § 10-8-14— Utility and telecommunications services -- Service beyond municipal limits -- Retainage -- Notice of service and agreement
Utah Code § 10-8-14.5— Utility easements -- Use for water or sewerage service
Utah Code § 10-8-15— Waterworks -- Construction -- Extraterritorial jurisdiction -- Notice
Utah Code § 10-8-16— Watercourses leading to and within city -- Mill privileges
Utah Code § 10-8-17— City may act as distributing agent -- Collection of operating costs from users
Utah Code § 10-8-18— Acquisition of water sources -- Retainage
Utah Code § 10-8-19— Water supply -- Special tax for increasing supply when city acting as distributing agent
Utah Code § 10-8-20— Lighting works -- Contracts -- Retainage
Utah Code § 10-8-21— Lighting facilities -- Sale of gas and electric power -- Erection and removal of poles and wires
Utah Code § 10-8-22— Water rates
Utah Code § 10-8-23— Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice
Utah Code § 10-8-24— Litter in streets
Utah Code § 10-8-25— Crosswalks, curbs and gutters
Utah Code § 10-8-26— Signs and advertising material
Utah Code § 10-8-27— Placards and handbills
Utah Code § 10-8-28— Flags and banners
Utah Code § 10-8-29— Sales and merchandising on streets
Utah Code § 10-8-30— Traffic regulations
Utah Code § 10-8-31— Numbering houses and lots
Utah Code § 10-8-32— Naming streets and public places
Utah Code § 10-8-33— Railroads -- Tracks and franchises
Utah Code § 10-8-34— Change of grade and crossings -- Nonuser as grounds for removal
Utah Code § 10-8-35— Fences, cattle guards and street crossings -- Duty of railroads
Utah Code § 10-8-36— Flagmen -- Grade crossings -- Drains along tracks
Utah Code § 10-8-37— Construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- Retainage
Utah Code § 10-8-38— Drainage and sewage systems -- Construction regulation and control -- Retainage -- Mandatory hookup -- Charges for use -- Collection of charges -- Service to tenants -- Failure to pay for service -- Service outside municipality
Utah Code § 10-8-41— Prostitution, lewd or perverted acts, gambling, and obscene or lewd publications
Utah Code § 10-8-41.5— Regulation of sexually oriented business
Utah Code § 10-8-41.6— Regulation of retail tobacco specialty business
Utah Code § 10-8-42— Intoxicating liquors -- Prohibitions on manufacture, sale, possession, etc
Utah Code § 10-8-43— Establishment and regulation of markets -- Sale of meats, poultry, etc
Utah Code § 10-8-44— Food stuffs -- Regulation and inspection
Utah Code § 10-8-44.5— Prohibition against regulation of nutritional information dissemination
Utah Code § 10-8-44.6— Regulation of drive-through facilities
Utah Code § 10-8-45— Weights and measures -- Inspection and sealing
Utah Code § 10-8-46— Plumbing -- Regulation of construction and repair -- Board of examiners
Utah Code § 10-8-47— Intoxication -- Fights -- Disorderly conduct -- Assault and battery -- Petit larceny -- Riots and disorderly assemblies -- Firearms and fireworks -- False pretenses and embezzlement -- Sale of liquor, narcotics, tobacco products, electronic cigarette products, or nicotine products to minors -- Possession of controlled substances -- Treatment of alcoholics and narcotics or drug addicts
Utah Code § 10-8-47.5— Knives regulated by state
Utah Code § 10-8-49— Vagrants -- Arrest -- Fine -- Putting to work -- Municipal lodging
Utah Code § 10-8-50— Disturbing the peace -- Public intoxication -- Fighting -- Obscene language -- Disorderly conduct -- Lewd behavior -- Interference with officers -- Trespass
Utah Code § 10-8-51— Beggars, prostitutes, swindlers -- Punishment
Utah Code § 10-8-52— Buildings -- Fire limits -- Removal and destruction of buildings violating ordinance
Utah Code § 10-8-53— Fire escapes -- Construction -- Building exits -- Fire extinguishers
Utah Code § 10-8-53.5— Regulation of carbon monoxide detectors -- Enforcement against occupant only
Utah Code § 10-8-54— Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes
Utah Code § 10-8-55— Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations
Utah Code § 10-8-55.5— Prohibition of flat response fee
Utah Code § 10-8-56— Storage of combustibles and explosives -- Use of lights -- Bonfires
Utah Code § 10-8-57— Inspection of boilers -- Licensing of stationary engineers
Utah Code § 10-8-58— Jails and workhouses -- Establishment and maintenance
Utah Code § 10-8-58.5— Contracting for management, maintenance, operation, or construction of jails
Utah Code § 10-8-59— Cruelty to animals
Utah Code § 10-8-60— Nuisances
Utah Code § 10-8-62— Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation
Utah Code § 10-8-63— Burial of dead -- Vital statistics
Utah Code § 10-8-65— Regulation of dogs -- Service animals permitted
Utah Code § 10-8-66— Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction
Utah Code § 10-8-67— Pigsties, privies, other offensive establishments -- Prohibiting establishment
Utah Code § 10-8-68— Census
Utah Code § 10-8-69— Conduct that interferes with or impedes traffic
Utah Code § 10-8-70— Lumberyards and combustible materials
Utah Code § 10-8-71— Waterworks -- Police and fire signals -- Retainage
Utah Code § 10-8-72— Libraries and reading rooms -- Establishment and maintenance
Utah Code § 10-8-73— Processions and demonstrations
Utah Code § 10-8-74— Burial of indigents
Utah Code § 10-8-75— Destitute children
Utah Code § 10-8-76— Noise abatement -- Street performances
Utah Code § 10-8-77— Untied animals in streets
Utah Code § 10-8-78— Crime insurance and reports
Utah Code § 10-8-79— Creating offices -- Filling vacancies
Utah Code § 10-8-81— Social clubs and athletic associations
Utah Code § 10-8-82— Railroads -- Removal of unused tracks
Utah Code § 10-8-83— Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation
Utah Code § 10-8-84— Ordinances, rules, and regulations -- Passage -- Penalties
Utah Code § 10-8-84.5— Limitations on employee benefits imposed by a municipality
Utah Code § 10-8-84.6— Prohibition on licensing or certification of child care programs
Utah Code § 10-8-85— Prison labor and fines
Utah Code § 10-8-85.4— Ordinances regarding short-term rentals -- Prohibition on ordinances restricting speech on short-term rental websites -- Evidence of short-term rental -- Removing a listing
Utah Code § 10-8-85.5— "Rental dwelling" defined -- Municipality may require a business license or a regulatory business license and inspections -- Exception
Utah Code § 10-8-85.6— Definitions -- Electronic payments -- Fee
Utah Code § 10-8-85.7— Implements of husbandry tracking debris onto municipal roads
Utah Code § 10-8-85.8— Indemnification of farmers markets
Utah Code § 10-8-85.9— Preservation of historical areas and sites
Utah Code § 10-8-85.10— Ordinances regarding co-ownership -- Prohibition on municipal ordinances restricting co-ownership models
Utah Code § 10-8-85.11— Golf courses -- Limitations on municipal ordinances restricting golf course maintenance
Utah Code § 10-8-86— Organization, operation, maintenance, and funding of system for public transit authorized
Utah Code § 10-8-87— Transportation connectivity plan -- Reporting
Utah Code § 10-8-89— Damage to abutting property -- Liability of city
Utah Code § 10-8-90— Ownership and operation of hospitals
Utah Code § 10-8-92— Joint board -- Membership -- Powers
Utah Code § 10-8-93— Control of funds and disbursements -- Auditing of accounts by county auditor -- Transfer of county tax funds to board to cover deficiencies
Utah Code § 10-8-94— Towns with same authority as cities