2006 Utah Code - 17A-2-1017 — Consent required to control facilities -- Competition with existing publicly or privately owned public carriers prohibited.

     17A-2-1017.   Consent required to control facilities -- Competition with existing publicly or privately owned public carriers prohibited.
     The district shall not exercise control over any transit facilities now or hereafter owned and operated wholly or partly within, or without, the district by any city or public agency, unless by consent of the city or public agency and upon terms mutually agreed upon between the board and the city or public agency.
     The district may not establish directly or indirectly, any public transit service or system or acquire facilities necessary or incidental thereto in manner or form that may divert, lessen, or compete for the patronage or revenues of a preexisting system of a publicly or privately owned public carrier furnishing like services without the consent of the public or private carrier.
     The maintenance and operation of any existing system acquired by the district from a publicly or privately owned public carrier shall not be deemed to be the establishment of a public transit service or system within the meaning of this section.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 186, 1990 General Session