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2012 Utah Code
Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code
Article 8 - Powers and Duties of Municipalities
- Section 1 - Control of finances and property.
- Section 1.5 - Authority to make benefits generally available to employees, their dependents, and an adult designee -- Registry authorized -- Limitations.
- Section 1.7 - Use of incremental tax revenue for relocation expenses of displaced mobile home park residents.
- Section 2 - Appropriations -- Acquisition and disposal of property -- Municipal authority -- Corporate purpose -- Procedure -- Notice of intent to acquire real property.
- Section 2.5 - Prohibition against spending certain transportation funds.
- Section 3 - Tax districts.
- Section 4 - Special taxes and licenses.
- Section 5 - Erection and care of buildings.
- Section 6 - Borrowing power -- Warrants and bonds.
- Section 7 - Refunding bonds -- Purpose of issuance.
- Section 8 - Streets, parks, airports, parking facilities, public grounds, and pedestrian malls.
- Section 8.6 - Widening a street or alley.
- Section 9 - Bathhouses, playgrounds.
- Section 10 - Trees.
- Section 11 - Streets -- Encroachments, lighting, sprinkling, cleaning.
- Section 13 - Conduits, drains, etc.
- Section 14 - Water, sewer, gas, electricity, and public transportation -- Service beyond municipal limits -- Retainage -- Notice of service and agreement -- Cable television and public telecommunications services.
- Section 14.5 - Utility easements -- Use for water or sewerage service.
- Section 15 - Waterworks -- Construction -- Extraterritorial jurisdiction.
- Section 16 - Watercourses leading to and within city -- Mill privileges.
- Section 17 - City may act as distributing agent -- Collection of operating costs from users.
- Section 18 - Acquisition of water sources -- Retainage.
- Section 19 - Water supply -- Special tax for increasing supply when city acting as distributing agent.
- Section 20 - Lighting works -- Contracts -- Retainage.
- Section 21 - Lighting facilities -- Sale of gas and electric power -- Erection and removal of poles and wires.
- Section 22 - Water rates.
- Section 23 - Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice.
- Section 24 - Litter in streets.
- Section 25 - Crosswalks, curbs and gutters.
- Section 26 - Signs and advertising material.
- Section 27 - Placards and handbills.
- Section 28 - Flags and banners.
- Section 29 - Sales and merchandising on streets.
- Section 30 - Traffic regulations.
- Section 31 - Numbering houses and lots.
- Section 32 - Naming streets and public places.
- Section 33 - Railroads -- Tracks and franchises.
- Section 34 - Change of grade and crossings -- Nonuser as grounds for removal.
- Section 35 - Fences, cattle guards and street crossings -- Duty of railroads.
- Section 36 - Flagmen -- Grade crossings -- Drains along tracks.
- Section 37 - Construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- Retainage.
- Section 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.
- Section 41 - Prostitution, lewd or perverted acts, gambling, and obscene or lewd publications.
- Section 41.5 - Regulation of sexually oriented business.
- Section 41.6 - Regulation of retail tobacco specialty business.
- Section 42 - Intoxicating liquors -- Prohibitions on manufacture, sale, possession, etc.
- Section 43 - Establishment and regulation of markets -- Sale of meats, poultry, etc.
- Section 44 - Food stuffs -- Regulation and inspection.
- Section 44.5 - Prohibition against regulation of nutritional information dissemination.
- Section 45 - Weights and measures -- Inspection and sealing.
- Section 46 - Plumbing -- Regulation of construction and repair -- Board of examiners.
- Section 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, or tobacco to minors -- Possession of controlled substances -- Treatment of alcoholics and narcotics or drug addicts.
- Section 47.5 - Knives regulated by state.
- Section 49 - Vagrants -- Arrest -- Fine -- Putting to work -- Municipal lodging.
- Section 50 - Disturbing the peace -- Public intoxication -- Fighting -- Obscene language -- Disorderly conduct -- Lewd behavior -- Interference with officers -- Trespass.
- Section 51 - Beggars, prostitutes, swindlers -- Punishment.
- Section 52 - Buildings -- Fire limits -- Removal and destruction of buildings violating ordinance.
- Section 53 - Fire escapes -- Construction -- Building exits -- Fire extinguishers.
- Section 53.5 - Regulation of carbon monoxide detectors -- Enforcement against occupant only.
- Section 54 - Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes.
- Section 55 - Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations.
- Section 55.5 - Prohibition of flat response fee.
- Section 56 - Storage of combustibles and explosives -- Use of lights -- Bonfires.
- Section 57 - Inspection of boilers -- Licensing of stationary engineers.
- Section 58 - Jails and workhouses -- Establishment and maintenance.
- Section 58.5 - Contracting for management, maintenance, operation, or construction of jails.
- Section 59 - Cruelty to animals.
- Section 60 - Nuisances.
- Section 62 - Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation.
- Section 63 - Burial of dead -- Vital statistics.
- Section 65 - Dogs -- License and tax -- Destruction, sale or other disposal.
- Section 66 - Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction.
- Section 67 - Pigsties, privies, other offensive establishments -- Prohibiting establishment.
- Section 68 - Census.
- Section 69 - Conduct that interferes with or impedes traffic.
- Section 70 - Lumberyards and combustible materials.
- Section 71 - Waterworks -- Police and fire signals -- Retainage.
- Section 72 - Libraries and reading rooms -- Establishment and maintenance.
- Section 73 - Processions and demonstrations.
- Section 74 - Burial of indigents.
- Section 75 - Destitute children.
- Section 76 - Noise abatement -- Street performances.
- Section 77 - Untied animals in streets.
- Section 78 - Official bonds and reports.
- Section 79 - Creating offices -- Filling vacancies.
- Section 81 - Social clubs and athletic associations.
- Section 82 - Railroads -- Removal of unused tracks.
- Section 83 - Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation.
- Section 84 - Ordinances, rules, and regulations -- Passage -- Penalties.
- Section 84.5 - Limitations on employee benefits imposed by a municipality.
- Section 85 - Prison labor and fines.
- Section 85.5 - "Rental dwelling" defined -- Municipality may require a business license or a regulatory business license and inspections -- Exception.
- Section 85.6 - Definitions -- Electronic payments -- Fee.
- Section 85.7 - Implements of husbandry tracking debris onto municipal roads.
- Section 85.8 - Indemnification of farmers markets.
- Section 85.9 - Preservation of historical areas and sites.
- Section 86 - Organization, operation, maintenance, and funding of system for public transit authorized.
- Section 89 - Damage to abutting property -- Liability of city.
- Section 90 - Ownership and operation of hospitals.
- Section 91 - Levy of tax by cities of the third, fourth, and fifth class and towns.
- Section 92 - Joint board -- Membership -- Powers.
- Section 93 - Control of funds and disbursements -- Auditing of accounts by county auditor -- Transfer of county tax funds to board to cover deficiencies.
- Section 94 - Towns with same authority as cities.
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