2006 Utah Code - 17A-3-311 — Connections of public utilities -- Service owned or provided by municipality, power to assess cost of connection.

     17A-3-311.   Connections of public utilities -- Service owned or provided by municipality, power to assess cost of connection.
     The governing body may require in any special improvement district before paving or repaving is done within it that all water, gas, sewer, and underground electric and telephone connections be made under such regulations and at such distances from the street mains to the line of the property abutting upon the street to be paved or repaved as may be prescribed by resolution. The governing body may require that any waterworks company owning the water pipe main, any gas company owning the gas pipe main, and any electric or telephone company owning any underground electric or telephone main make these connections. Upon the neglect or failure of the company to do the same, the governing body may cause the same to be done; and the cost of this shall be deducted from any indebtedness of the municipality to the company, and no bills shall be paid to the company by the municipality until all such expense for pipe laying shall have been liquidated. The governing body shall also have the power at any time to assess for reasonable connection fees or for the cost of any sewer, water, gas, or electric connections when the municipality owns or supplies these services and owns the mains, to such depth as it shall deem just and equitable, upon the property benefited.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 186, 1990 General Session