2006 Utah Code - 17-2-5 — Conditions of annexation.

     17-2-5.   Conditions of annexation.
     Whenever a majority of the legal voters of each of the counties to which the proposition is submitted vote in favor of annexing one county to another in the manner provided in this chapter such annexation shall be made under the following conditions:
     (1) Such annexation shall be complete and take effect on the first Monday of January following the day of the election at which such proposition was submitted.
     (2) All territory theretofore included within the boundaries of the county annexed shall become the territory of the annexing county.
     (3) The precincts and school districts existing in the county annexed shall continue and become precincts and school districts in the annexing county and shall remain as then organized until changed in the manner provided by law, and the officers of such precincts and school districts shall hold their respective offices until the expiration of the terms thereof.
     (4) All property, both real and personal, held and owned by the county annexed shall be vested in the annexing county.
     (5) The terms of all county officers in the county annexed shall terminate and cease on the day the annexation takes effect, and it is made the duty of such officers to immediately deliver to the corresponding officers of the annexing county all books, records and papers of the annexed county.
     (6) Any person who is confined under lawful commitment in the county jail of the county annexed, or otherwise lawfully held to answer for alleged violation of any of the criminal laws of this state, shall be immediately delivered to the sheriff of the annexing county, and such person shall be confined in its county jail for the unexpired term of the sentence or held as specified in the commitment.
     (7) All criminal proceedings pending in the county annexed shall be prosecuted to judgment and execution in the annexing county; all offenses theretofore committed in the county annexed which shall not have been prosecuted shall be prosecuted in the annexing county.
     (8) All actions, proceedings and matters pending in the district court of the county annexed may be proceeded with in the district court of the annexing county.
     (9) All indebtedness of the county annexed shall be transferred to and become the indebtedness of the annexing county with the same effect as if it had been incurred by such county.

No Change Since 1953