2006 Utah Code - 10-3-101 — Governing body -- Legislative and executive powers.

     10-3-101.   Governing body -- Legislative and executive powers.
     (1) (a) Each municipality, except a municipality operating under a council-mayor form of government, shall have a governing body that consists of:
     (i) in a five-member council form of government, five council members, of which one is a mayor, who shall vote as a member of the governing body and who exercises ceremonial and administrative functions, and four are council members;
     (ii) in a six-member council form of government, six council members, of which one is a mayor, who shall vote only in the case of a tie or in the appointment or dismissal of a city manager under Section 10-3-830 and who exercises ceremonial and administrative functions, and five are council members; and
     (iii) in a council-manager form of government, a council of five or seven members, who shall appoint a manager.
     (b) Each governing body under Subsection (1)(a) shall exercise the legislative and executive powers of the municipality.
     (2) The government of a municipality operating under the council-mayor form of government is vested in two separate, independent, and equal branches of municipal government consisting of:
     (a) the mayor, who exercises executive powers and, under the mayor's supervision, the administrative departments and officers; and
     (b) a council of five or seven members, who exercise the legislative powers.

Amended by Chapter 202, 2004 General Session