2010 Utah Code
Title 72 - Transportation Code
Chapter 10 - Aeronautics Act
72-10-408 - Appeals to board of adjustment -- Procedure -- Stay of proceedings -- Hearing and judgment.

72-10-408. Appeals to board of adjustment -- Procedure -- Stay of proceedings -- Hearing and judgment.
(1) Any person aggrieved, or taxpayer affected, by any decision of any administrative agency made in its administration of airport zoning regulations adopted under this part, or any governing body of a political subdivision, or any joint airport zoning board, which is of the opinion that a decision of an administrative agency is an improper application of airport zoning regulations of concern to the governing body or board, may appeal to the board of adjustment authorized to hear and decide appeals from the decisions of the administrative agency.
(2) (a) All appeals taken under this section shall be taken within a reasonable time, as provided by the rules of the board, by filing with the agency from which the appeal is taken and with the board, a notice of appeal specifying the grounds of the appeal.
(b) The agency from which the appeal is taken shall transmit to the board all the papers constituting the record upon which the action appealed from was taken.
(3) (a) An appeal shall stay all proceedings in furtherance of the action appealed from, unless the agency from which the appeal is taken certifies to the board, after the notice of appeal has been filed with it, that by reason of the facts stated in the certificate a stay would, in its opinion, cause imminent peril to life or property.
(b) In these cases, proceedings shall not be stayed otherwise than by order of the board on notice to the agency from which the appeal is taken and on due cause shown.
(4) (a) The board shall fix a reasonable time for the hearing of appeals, give public notice and due notice to the parties in interest, and decide the appeal within a reasonable time.
(b) Upon the hearing any party may appear in person or by agent or by attorney.
(5) The board may, in conformity with the provisions of this part, reverse or affirm wholly or partly, or modify, the order, requirement, decision, or determination appealed from and may make an order, requirement, decision, or determination as ought to be made, and to that end shall have all the powers of the administrative agency from which the appeal is taken.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 270, 1998 General Session