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Utah Code Title 11. Cities, Counties, and Local Taxing Units § 11-59-102. Definitions

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

As used in this chapter:

(1) “Authority” means the Point of the Mountain State Land Authority, created in Section 11-59-201.

(2) “Board” means the authority's board, created in Section 11-59-301.

(3) “Development”:

(a) means the construction, reconstruction, modification, expansion, or improvement of a building, utility, infrastructure, landscape, parking lot, park, trail, recreational amenity, or other facility, including:

(i) the demolition or preservation or repurposing of a building, infrastructure, or other facility;

(ii) surveying, testing, locating existing utilities and other infrastructure, and other preliminary site work; and

(iii) any associated planning, design, engineering, and related activities; and

(b) includes all activities associated with:

(i) marketing and business recruiting activities and efforts;

(ii) leasing, or selling or otherwise disposing of, all or any part of the point of the mountain state land; and

(iii) planning and funding for mass transit infrastructure to service the point of the mountain state land.

(4) “Facilities division” means the Division of Facilities Construction and Management, created in Section 63A-5b-301.

(5) “New correctional facility” means the state correctional facility being developed in Salt Lake City to replace the state correctional facility in Draper.

(6) “Point of the mountain state land” means:

(a) the approximately 700 acres of state-owned land in Draper, including land used for the operation of a state correctional facility until completion of the new correctional facility and state-owned land in the vicinity of the current state correctional facility; and

(b) any land, in addition to the land described in Subsection (6)(a), that:

(i) the state acquires; and

(ii) is contiguous to the land described in Subsection (6)(a).

(7) “Public entity” means:

(a) the state, including each department, division, or other agency of the state; or

(b) a county, city, town, school district, special district, special service district, interlocal cooperation entity, community reinvestment agency, or other political subdivision of the state, including the authority.

(8) “Publicly owned infrastructure and improvements”:

(a) means infrastructure, improvements, facilities, or buildings that:

(i) benefit the public; and

(ii)(A) are owned by a public entity or a utility; or

(B) are publicly maintained or operated by a public entity; and

(b) includes:

(i) facilities, lines, or systems that provide:

(A) water, chilled water, or steam; or

(B) sewer, storm drainage, natural gas, electricity, energy storage, clean energy, microgrids, or telecommunications service;

(ii) streets, roads, curb, gutter, sidewalk, walkways, solid waste facilities, parking facilities, and public transportation facilities; and

(iii) greenspace, parks, trails, recreational amenities, or other similar facilities.

(9) “Taxing entity” means the same as that term is defined in Section 59-2-102.

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