2006 Utah Code - 10-9a-517 — Municipal ordinances governing elderly residential facilities.

     10-9a-517.   Municipal ordinances governing elderly residential facilities.
     (1) Each municipality shall adopt ordinances that establish that a residential facility for elderly persons is a permitted use in any area where residential dwellings are allowed, except an area zoned to permit exclusively single-family dwellings.
     (2) The ordinances shall establish a permit process that may require only that:
     (a) the facility meet each building, safety, land use, and health ordinance applicable to similar dwellings;
     (b) adequate off-street parking space be provided;
     (c) the facility be capable of use as a residential facility for elderly persons without structural or landscaping alterations that would change the structure's residential character;
     (d) residential facilities for elderly persons be reasonably dispersed throughout the municipality;
     (e) no person being treated for alcoholism or drug abuse be placed in a residential facility for elderly persons; and
     (f) placement in a residential facility for elderly persons be on a strictly voluntary basis and not a part of, or in lieu of, confinement, rehabilitation, or treatment in a correctional facility.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 254, 2005 General Session