2006 Utah Code - 17-3-3 — Certification of returns -- Governor\'s proclamation of creation of new county -- Name -- Judicial district -- Notice to lieutenant governor.

     17-3-3.   Certification of returns -- Governor's proclamation of creation of new county -- Name -- Judicial district -- Notice to lieutenant governor.
     (1) The certified abstract of returns under Section 17-3-2 shall be filed in the office of the lieutenant governor, who shall certify the result to the governor.
     (2) If it appears that any proposition submitted to the electors as provided in this chapter has been carried in the affirmative by a majority vote of the qualified electors residing in that portion of the county proposed as a new county, and also by a majority vote of the qualified electors residing in the remaining portion of that county, the governor shall issue a proclamation, stating:
     (a) the result of the vote in each division of the county;
     (b) the name and boundaries of the new county;
     (c) the boundaries of the original county as changed by the creation of the new county;
     (d) that the creation of the new county will take effect on the first Monday in January following;
     (e) the name proposed in the petition as the name of the new county; and
     (f) the judicial district to which the new county belongs.
     (3) (a) Within 30 days after the issuance of the governor's proclamation under Subsection (2), the legislative body of the county from which the greatest portion of the new county was taken shall send a notice to the lieutenant governor.
     (b) Each notice under Subsection (3)(a) shall include:
     (i) a copy of the governor's proclamation;
     (ii) a certification that all necessary legal requirements relating to the creation of the new county have been completed; and
     (iii) a map or plat that delineates an accurate metes and bounds description of the new county.
     (4) The new county that is the subject of the governor's proclamation under Subsection (2) shall be a county of the state from and after 12 noon of the first Monday in January following the issuance of the governor's proclamation.

Amended by Chapter 233, 2005 General Session