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2012 Utah Code
Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code
Article 2 - Incorporation, Classification, Boundaries, Consolidation, and Dissolution of Municipalities
- Section 101 - Definitions.
- Section 102 - Incorporation of a contiguous area -- Governing provisions of city or town incorporation.
- Section 103 - Request for feasibility study -- Requirements -- Limitations.
- Section 104 - Notice to owner of property -- Exclusion of property from proposed boundaries.
- Section 105 - Processing a request for incorporation -- Certification or rejection by county clerk -- Processing priority -- Limitations -- Township planning commission recommendation.
- Section 106 - Feasibility study -- Feasibility study consultant.
- Section 107 - Modified request for feasibility study -- Supplemental feasibility study.
- Section 108 - Public hearings on feasibility study results -- Notice of hearings.
- Section 109 - Incorporation petition -- Requirements and form.
- Section 110 - Processing of petition by county clerk -- Certification or rejection -- Processing priority.
- Section 111 - Incorporation election.
- Section 112 - Ballot used at the incorporation election.
- Section 113 - Notification to lieutenant governor of incorporation election results.
- Section 114 - Determination of number of council members -- Determination of election districts -- Hearings and notice.
- Section 115 - Notice of number of commission or council members to be elected and of district boundaries -- Declaration of candidacy for city office.
- Section 116 - Election of officers of new city.
- Section 117 - Notification to lieutenant governor of election of city officers.
- Section 118 - Elections governed by the Election Code.
- Section 119 - Filing of notice and approved final local entity plat with lieutenant governor -- Effective date of incorporation -- Necessity of recording documents and effect of not recording.
- Section 120 - Powers of officers-elect.
- Section 121 - Division of municipal-type services revenues -- County may provide startup funds.
- Section 123 - Costs of incorporation.
- Section 124 - Incorporation petition or feasibility study before May 8, 2012.
- Section 125 - Incorporation of a town -- Petition.
- Section 126 - Incorporation of town -- Public hearing on feasibility.
- Section 127 - Incorporation of town -- Election to incorporate -- Ballot form.
- Section 128 - Form of government -- Election of officers of new town.
- Section 129 - Notice to lieutenant governor -- Effective date of incorporation -- Effect of recording documents.
- Section 301 - Classification of municipalities according to population.
- Section 302 - Change of class of municipality.
- Section 303 - Effect of change in class.
- Section 306 - Judicial notice taken of existence and class.
- Section 401 - Definitions -- Property owner provisions.
- Section 401.5 - Annexation policy plan.
- Section 402 - Annexation -- Limitations.
- Section 403 - Annexation petition -- Requirements -- Notice required before filing.
- Section 405 - Acceptance or denial of an annexation petition -- Petition certification process -- Modified petition.
- Section 406 - Notice of certification -- Publishing and providing notice of petition.
- Section 407 - Protest to annexation petition -- Township planning commission recommendation -- Petition requirements -- Disposition of petition if no protest filed.
- Section 408 - Denying or approving the annexation petition -- Notice of approval.
- Section 408.5 - Annexation of an area within a township -- Withdrawing the area from the township.
- Section 409 - Boundary commission -- Creation -- Members.
- Section 409.5 - Municipal selection committee.
- Section 410 - Boundary commission member terms -- Staggered terms -- Chair -- Quorum -- Vacancy.
- Section 411 - Disqualification of commission member -- Alternate member.
- Section 412 - Boundary commission authority -- Expenses -- Records.
- Section 413 - Feasibility consultant -- Feasibility study -- Modifications to feasibility study.
- Section 414 - Modified annexation petition -- Supplemental feasibility study.
- Section 415 - Public hearing -- Notice.
- Section 416 - Commission decision -- Time limit -- Limitation on approval of annexation.
- Section 417 - District court review -- Notice.
- Section 418 - Annexation of an island or peninsula without a petition -- Notice -- Hearing.
- Section 419 - Boundary adjustment -- Notice and hearing -- Protest.
- Section 420 - Bonds not affected by boundary adjustments or annexations -- Payment of property taxes.
- Section 421 - Electric utility service in annexed area -- Reimbursement for value of facilities -- Liability -- Arbitration.
- Section 422 - Conclusive presumption of annexation.
- Section 425 - Filing of notice and plat -- Recording and notice requirements -- Effective date of annexation or boundary adjustment.
- Section 426 - Division of municipal-type services revenues.
- Section 428 - Neither annexation nor boundary adjustment has an effect on the boundaries of most local districts or special service districts.
- Section 501 - Municipal disconnection -- Definitions -- Request for disconnection -- Requirements upon filing request.
- Section 502.5 - Hearing on request for disconnection -- Determination by municipal legislative body -- Petition in district court.
- Section 502.7 - Court action.
- Section 506 - Taxes to meet municipal obligations.
- Section 507 - Disconnection ordinance or decree -- Filing of notice and plat -- Recording requirements -- Effective date of disconnection -- Costs of disconnection.
- Section 509 - Costs.
- Section 510 - Boundary adjustment procedure not affected.
- Section 601 - Consolidation of two or more municipalities.
- Section 602 - Contents of resolution or petition.
- Section 603 - Plan of consolidation.
- Section 604 - Duty of county legislative body when petition is by electors.
- Section 605 - Effect of plan of consolidation.
- Section 606 - Public hearings.
- Section 607 - Notice of election.
- Section 608 - Contents of notice.
- Section 609 - Election on consolidation.
- Section 610 - Canvass of election -- Notice of results -- Filing of notice and plat -- Recording requirements.
- Section 611 - When consolidation effective -- Disincorporation of original municipalities -- Effective date for assessment purposes.
- Section 612 - New municipality -- Ownership of property -- Indebtedness of original municipalities.
- Section 613 - Governing body until next election.
- Section 614 - Ordinances, resolutions, and orders.
- Section 701 - Petition for disincorporation -- Validity -- District court order for election.
- Section 701.5 - Form of petition.
- Section 702 - District court to examine petition -- Set date for election.
- Section 703 - Publication of notice of election.
- Section 704 - Form of ballot.
- Section 705 - Judgment -- Determination of claims.
- Section 706 - Taxes to meet municipal obligations.
- Section 707 - Disposition of records.
- Section 708 - Notice of disincorporation -- Publication and filing.
- Section 709 - Expenses of election.
- Section 710 - Limitation on jurisdiction of court to consider disincorporation petition.
- Section 711 - Dissolution by the county legislative body.
- Section 712 - Power of court -- Articles of dissolution -- Notice to lieutenant governor -- Recording requirements -- Effective date of dissolution.
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