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2025 Utah Code
Title 10 - Utah Municipal Code
Chapter 2a - Municipal Incorporation
Part 2 - Incorporation of a Municipality
Section 218 - Powers of officers-elect.
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UT Code § 10-2a-218 (2025)
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Effective 5/14/2019
10-2a-218. Powers of officers-elect.
Amended by Chapter 165, 2019 General Session
10-2a-218. Powers of officers-elect.
- (1) After the county conducts the canvass of the final election of municipal officers under Section 10-2a-215, and until the future municipality becomes legally incorporated, the officers of the future municipality may:
- (a) prepare and adopt, under Chapter 6, Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Utah Cities, a proposed budget and compilation of ordinances;
- (b) negotiate and make personnel contracts and hirings;
- (c) negotiate and make service contracts;
- (d) negotiate and make contracts to purchase equipment, materials, and supplies;
- (e) borrow funds from the county in which the future municipality is located under Subsection 10-2a-219(3);
- (f) borrow funds for startup expenses of the future municipality;
- (g) issue tax anticipation notes in the name of the future municipality; and
- (h) make appointments to the municipality's planning commission.
- (2) The municipal council shall review and ratify each contract made by a municipal officer under Subsection (1) within 30 days after the day on which the municipality's incorporation is effective under Section 10-2a-217.
Amended by Chapter 165, 2019 General Session
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