2015 Utah Code
Title 17 - Counties
Chapter 16 - County Officers
Section 6 - County officers -- Time of holding elections -- County commissioners -- Terms of office.

Effective 3/6/2014
17-16-6. County officers -- Time of holding elections -- County commissioners -- Terms of office.

• (1) Except as otherwise provided in an optional plan adopted under Chapter 52, Changing Forms of County Government:
  • (a) each elected county officer shall be elected at the regular general election every four years in accordance with Section 20A-1-201, except as otherwise provided in this title;
  • (b) county commissioners shall be elected at the times, in the manner, and for the terms provided in Section 17-52-501; and
  • (c) an elected officer shall hold office for the term for which the officer is elected, beginning at noon on the first Monday in January following the officer's election and until a successor is elected or appointed and qualified, except as provided in Section 17-16-1.

• (2)
  • (a) The terms of county officers shall be staggered in accordance with this Subsection (2).
  • (b) Except as provided in Subsection (2)(c), in the 2014 general election:
    • (i) the following county officers shall be elected to one six-year term and thereafter elected to a four-year term:
      • (A) county treasurer;
      • (B) county recorder;
      • (C) county surveyor; and
      • (D) county assessor; and
    • (ii) all other county officers shall be elected to a four-year term.
  • (c) If a county legislative body consolidates two or more county offices in accordance with Section 17-16-3, and the consolidated offices are on conflicting election schedules, the county legislative body shall pass an ordinance that sets the election schedule for the consolidated offices in a reasonable manner that staggers the terms of county officers as provided in this Subsection (2).

Amended by Chapter 16, 2014 General Session