2006 Utah Code - 17A-2-1309 — Protests -- Procedures -- Effect.

     17A-2-1309.   Protests -- Procedures -- Effect.
     (1) (a) Any interested person may protest the establishment of a service district or the furnishing of specified types of services within a service district.
     (b) Protests may be made:
     (i) orally at the hearing, or in writing at the hearing;
     (ii) any time prior to the hearing; or
     (iii) within 15 days after the conclusion of the hearing.
     (2) Any withdrawal of protest, or cancellation of withdrawal, must be filed within 30 days after the public hearing.
     (3) At the place, date, and time specified for the hearing in the notice of intention, the county or municipal governing authority shall:
     (a) give full consideration to all protests that have been filed; and
     (b) hear and consider all interested persons desiring to be heard.
     (4) The governing authority may continue the hearing to another date and time if necessary.
     (5) The governing authority shall abandon the proposed establishment of the special service district or eliminate those types of services objected to within the service district, if written protests against establishing the service district or against types of services proposed to be offered by the district are filed by:
     (a) more than 50% of the qualified voters of the territory proposed to be included within the service district; or
     (b) the owners of more than 50% of the taxable value of the taxable property included within the proposed service district.
     (6) The governing authority may consider the voter registration records of the county as conclusive evidence of residency in the service district.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 186, 1990 General Session