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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As provided in this part, a county or municipality may create a special service district to provide any combination of the following services:
(1) water;
(2) sewerage;
(3) drainage;
(4) flood control;
(5) garbage collection and disposal;
(6) health care;
(7) transportation, including the receipt of federal secure rural school funds under Section 51-9-603 for the purposes of constructing, improving, repairing, or maintaining public roads;
(8) recreation;
(9) fire protection, including:
(a) emergency medical services, ambulance services, and search and rescue services, if fire protection service is also provided;
(b) Firewise Communities programs and the development of community wildfire protection plans; and
(c) the receipt of federal secure rural school funds as provided under Section 51-9-603 for the purposes of carrying out Firewise Communities programs, developing community wildfire protection plans, and performing emergency services, including firefighting on federal land and other services authorized under this Subsection (9);
(10) providing, operating, and maintaining correctional and rehabilitative facilities and programs for municipal, state, and other detainees and prisoners;
(11) street lighting;
(12) consolidated 911 and emergency dispatch;
(13) animal shelter and control;
(14) receiving federal mineral lease funds under Title 59, Chapter 21, Mineral Lease Funds, and expending those funds to be used in accordance with state and federal law;
(15) in a county of the first class, extended police protection;
(16) control or abatement of earth movement or a landslide;
(17) an energy efficiency upgrade, a clean energy system, or electric vehicle charging infrastructure as defined in Section 11-42a-102, in accordance with Title 11, Chapter 42a, Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy Act; or
(18) cemetery.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Utah Code Title 17D. Limited Purpose Local Government Entities--Other Entities § 17D-1-201. Services that a special service district may be created to provide - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ut/title-17d-limited-purpose-local-government-entities-other-entities/ut-code-sect-17d-1-201/
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