2006 Utah Code - 17A-2-1002 — Legislative findings.

     17A-2-1002.   Legislative findings.
     The Legislature hereby finds and declares:
     (1) that the predominant part of the state's population is located in its rapidly expanding metropolitan and other urban areas which generally cross the boundary lines of local jurisdictions and often extend into two or more counties;
     (2) that usage of present public urban transit systems has been declining while cost of operation has been increasing, so that present public transit systems have been forced to curtail services rendered, and their plans and equipment have been deteriorating with the result that they are unable to provide the type of service needed by citizens and are unable to plan, establish and coordinate area-wide metropolitan public transit systems;
     (3) that the welfare and vitality of urban areas, the satisfactory movement of people within these areas, the lessening of traffic congestion and the effectiveness of housing, tourist, highway and other governmental programs, are being jeopardized thereby; and
     (4) that the problems involved in adequately furnishing public urban transportation for the present and future needs of the people of the state are of such magnitude and complexity that the various urban transit systems, municipalities and counties acting individually, lack the ability, finances and jurisdiction to resolve, establish and coordinate urban transportation.
     Therefore, it is essential to establish a public agency known as a transit district which can operate in its own right and authority and exercise jurisdiction without being restricted to municipal corporate or county limits, governed by representatives of the governmental units lying within the district. It is the purpose of this part to provide the means necessary for mass transportation of persons presently and in the future.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 186, 1990 General Session