Utah Code § 10-8-85.9
A municipality may use public funds and other property tools to preserve or improve historical areas or sites.
- Historical preservation
- Public asset acquisition
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A municipality may use public funds and other property tools to preserve or improve historical areas or sites.
A municipality’s governing body may adopt a resolution to create, run, and maintain a public transit system and to levy sales and use taxes to fund it.
Municipalities in a metropolitan planning organization boundary must update their transportation and traffic circulation element by July 1, 2027, identify priority connections and related costs/funding/impediments, and the metropolitan planning organization must report to the Transportation Interim Committee by Novembe
If a city changes the grade of a street, alley, or other public ground and nearby real property is damaged after valuable improvements have been made, the owner may recover damages from the city in a civil action.
They may establish, maintain, and supervise bathhouses, public playgrounds, recreation places, and swimming pools.
Cities of the third, fourth, or fifth class and towns may own and operate hospitals, and may cooperate with other local governments. A covered hospital may not make a new agreement to operate a nursing care facility in another city, town, or county unless it first has an interlocal agreement or other contract with that
If two or more Utah political subdivisions join under this part, they must create a joint board with equal representation from each subdivision, and the board may administer, operate, construct, and maintain the joint hospital.
The joint board controls hospital funds, the county auditor must audit the board’s accounts quarterly or more often if needed, and the county executive may transfer certain levy funds to cover hospital deficiencies.
Towns have the same powers and authority as cities under this chapter, subject to listed limits.
County finance officers, city auditors, and school district board clerks must certify certain debt instruments as within the lawful debt limit and sign the certificate in their official capacity.
Auditors may rely on certain facts, and a local legislative body or school authority’s finding or declaration about specified appropriations or expenditures conclusively protects certain finance officials when certifying warrants within the lawful debt limit.
Certain local legislative bodies must invest sinking funds under the State Money Management Act procedures.
Certain local issuers may issue bonds in serial or term form, and bond principal and interest must be paid only at a designated bank or trust company, or sometimes at the issuer treasurer’s office if designated and chosen by the holder. Payments made to someone other than the bond owner are treated as trust funds, and
This section defines key terms used in the part, including when real property is treated as “dispose,” who counts as a governing body, and what counts as local governmental entity, public property, and a real estate offering website.
Before disposing of public property, a local governmental entity must determine whether it is a significant parcel and comply with applicable statutory requirements.
Local governmental entities must give public notice before disposing of a significant parcel, and must post a sign before disposing of other public property.
Public meeting to approve disposal. For a significant parcel, the local governmental entity may approve disposal after: complying with any statutory provisions outside this part that govern the local governmental entity and the local
This section lists exceptions where the requirements of this part do not apply.
A person may not operate certain alcohol-related premises or similar businesses without a business license, and a local authority may issue, suspend, or revoke such a license.
A license may not be granted unless the applicant meets the listed qualifications, and the local authority must verify this with written evidence before issuing licenses.
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