Title 10, Title 10: Utah Municipal Code

10-8-53.5. Regulation of carbon monoxide detectors -- Enforcement against occupant only. (1) Subject to Subsection, a municipality may not enforce an ordinance, rule, or regulation requiring the installation or maintenance of a carbon monoxide detector in a residential dwelling a…

10-8-54. Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes. They may prevent the dangerous construction and condition of chimneys, fireplaces, stoves, stovepipes, heaters, ovens, furnaces, boilers, and apparatus used in and about buil…

10-8-55. Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations. They may, except as otherwise provided by law, provide for the organization and support of a fire department, procure fire engines, hooks, ladders, buckets, hose and other apparatus, organize fire engi…

10-8-55.5. Prohibition of flat response fee. (1) A municipality, or a person who contracts with a municipality to provide emergency services: may not impose a flat fee, or collect a flat fee, from an individual involved in a traffic incident; and may only charge the individual fo…

10-8-56. Storage of combustibles and explosives -- Use of lights -- Bonfires. They may regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, gas, gasoline, benzine, turpentine, nitroglycerine, petroleum or any of the products thereof, and other combustible o…

10-8-57. Inspection of boilers -- Licensing of stationary engineers. They may provide for the inspection and may regulate the use of steam boilers, provide for the examination, regulation and licensing of stationary engineers and others having charge or control of stationary engi…

10-8-58. Jails and workhouses -- Establishment and maintenance. The governing body of a city or town may: (1) establish, erect, and maintain city jails, houses of correction, and workhouses for the temporary confinement, not to exceed 72 hours, of persons convicted of violating a…

10-8-58.5. Contracting for management, maintenance, operation, or construction of jails. (1) As used in this section, "medication assisted treatment plan" means a prescription plan to use buprenorphine, methadone, or naltrexone to treat substance use withdrawal symptoms or an opi…

10-8-59. Cruelty to animals. They may prohibit cruelty to animals.

10-8-6. Borrowing power -- Warrants and bonds. They may borrow money on the credit of the corporation for corporate purposes in the manner and to the extent allowed by the Constitution and the laws, and issue warrants and bonds therefor in such amounts and forms and on such condi…

10-8-60. Nuisances. They may declare what shall be a nuisance, and abate the same, and impose fines upon persons who may create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist.

10-8-62. Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation. The city legislative body may: (1) purchase, hold, and pay for lands within or without the corporate limits for the burial of the dead, and all necessary grounds for hospitals; (2) have and exercise police jurisdiction over those lan…

10-8-63. Burial of dead -- Vital statistics. They may regulate the burial of the dead, consistent with, the registration of births and deaths, direct the returning and keeping of bills of mortality, and impose penalties on physicians, sextons, and others for any default therein.

10-8-65. Regulation of dogs -- Service animals permitted. (1) Subject to Section, a municipality may: 18-2-101 license, tax, regulate, or prohibit the keeping of dogs; and authorize the destruction, sale, or other disposal of a dog if the dog is at large contrary to ordinance. (2…

10-8-66. Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction. They may direct the location and regulate the management and construction of packing houses, dairies, tanneries, canneries, renderies, bone factories, slaughterhouses, butcher shops, soap factories, found…

10-8-67. Pigsties, privies, other offensive establishments -- Prohibiting establishment. They may prohibit any offensive, unwholesome business or establishment in and within one mile of the limits of the corporation, compel the owner of any pigsty, privy, barn, corral, sewer or o…

10-8-68. Census. They may provide for the taking of censuses, but no census shall be taken oftener than once in five years, except as otherwise provided by law.

10-8-69. Conduct that interferes with or impedes traffic. (1) Except as provided in Subsection, the governing body of a city or town may prohibit or regulate conduct on a highway or sidewalk if the conduct interferes with or impedes traffic, including: (2) rolling a hoop; playing…

10-8-7. Refunding bonds -- Purpose of issuance. They may issue bonds in place of or to supply means to meet maturing bonds or for the consolidation or refunding of the same.

10-8-70. Lumberyards and combustible materials. They may regulate or prohibit the keeping of any lumberyard, and the placing or piling or selling of any lumber, timber, wood or other combustible material within the fire limits of the city.

10-8-71. Waterworks -- Police and fire signals -- Retainage. (1) They may purchase, construct, lease, rent, manage and maintain any system or part of any system of waterworks, hydrants and supplies of water, telegraphic or other police or fire signals, and pass all ordinances, pe…

10-8-72. Libraries and reading rooms -- Establishment and maintenance. They may establish, maintain and regulate free public libraries and reading rooms, as provided by law, and may perpetuate such free libraries and reading rooms as may have been heretofore established in the ci…

10-8-73. Processions and demonstrations. They may regulate or prohibit all public demonstrations and processions which interfere with public traffic or tend to cause disorder.

10-8-74. Burial of indigents. They may provide for the burial of the indigent dead and pay the expenses thereof.

10-8-75. Destitute children. They may authorize the taking, and provide for the safekeeping and education for such periods of time as may be expedient, for all children who are destitute of proper parental care.

10-8-76. Noise abatement -- Street performances. They may prevent the ringing of bells, blowing of horns and bugles, crying of goods by auctioneers and others, and the making of other noises, for the purpose of business, amusement or otherwise, and prevent all performances and de…

10-8-77. Untied animals in streets. They may compel persons to fasten animals attached to vehicles standing or remaining in the street.

10-8-78. Crime insurance and reports. The governing body of a city may require all municipal officers and agents, elected or appointed, to: (1) obtain crime insurance in relation to the performance of the officers' or agents' duties; and (2) require from every officer of the city…

10-8-79. Creating offices -- Filling vacancies. They may create any office they may deem necessary for the good government of the city, and provide for filling vacancies in elective and appointive offices, and prescribe the powers, duties and compensation of all officers of the c…

10-8-8. Streets, parks, airports, parking facilities, public grounds, and pedestrian malls. A municipal legislative body may lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, narrow, extend, grade, pave, or otherwise improve streets, alleys, avenues, boulevards, sidewalks, parks, airports,…

10-8-8.6. Widening a street or alley. Before a city may widen a street or alley in such a way that access to underground facilities is affected, the city shall notify in writing, and consult with, the owners or operators of the underground facilities, as defined in Section, and u…

10-8-81. Social clubs and athletic associations. They may regulate all social clubs, recreational associations, athletic associations and kindred associations, whether incorporated or not, which maintain club rooms or regular meeting rooms within the corporate limits of the city.…

10-8-82. Railroads -- Removal of unused tracks. They may require the tracks of any railroad or street railway company to be taken up and removed which shall have been laid upon the streets or highways of the city, and which remain in the streets or highways contrary to the terms …

10-8-83. Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation. They may require any railroad or street railway company to place gates at any place along its tracks, and may designate the places where such gates shall be placed, and the nature, kind and quality of such gates.

10-8-84. Ordinances, rules, and regulations -- Passage -- Penalties. (1) The municipal legislative body may pass all ordinances and rules, and make all regulations, not repugnant to law, necessary for carrying into effect or discharging all powers and duties conferred by this cha…

10-8-84.5. Limitations on employee benefits imposed by a municipality. (1) For the purpose of this section: "Accident and health insurance" is as defined in Section. 31A-1-301 "Employee" means an individual employed by an employer. "Employee benefit" means one or more benefits or…

10-8-84.6. Prohibition on licensing or certification of child care programs. (1) As used in this section, "child care program" means a child care facility or program operated by a person who holds a license or certificate from the Department of Health and Human Services under. Ti…

10-8-85. Prison labor and fines. They may provide by ordinance that any person committed to the county or municipal jail or other place of incarceration as a punishment or in default of the payment of a fine, or fine and costs, shall be required to work for the city at such labor…

10-8-85.10. Ordinances regarding co-ownership -- Prohibition on municipal ordinances restricting co-ownership models. (1) As used in this section: "Co-owned home" means any residential unit that is jointly owned, in any manner or form, by any combination of individuals or entitie…

10-8-85.11. Golf courses -- Limitations on municipal ordinances restricting golf course maintenance. (1) As used in this section: "Golf course" means: a privately owned golf course that is located, in whole or in part, within municipal boundaries; or a golf course located, in who…

10-8-85.4. Ordinances regarding short-term rentals -- Prohibition on ordinances restricting speech on short-term rental websites -- Evidence of short-term rental -- Removing a listing. (1) As used in this section: "Internal accessory dwelling unit" means the same as that term is …

10-8-85.5. "Rental dwelling" defined -- Municipality may require a business license or a regulatory business license and inspections -- Exception. (1) As used in this section, "rental dwelling" means a building or portion of a building that is: used or designated for use as a res…

10-8-85.6. Definitions -- Electronic payments -- Fee. (1) As used in this section: "Electronic payment" means the payment of money to a municipality by electronic means, including by means of a credit card, charge card, debit card, prepaid or stored value card or similar device, …

10-8-85.7. Implements of husbandry tracking debris onto municipal roads. A municipality may not prohibit or punish the tracking of dirt, mud, or other debris onto a municipal road resulting from the operation of an implement of husbandry if the operation of the implement of husba…

10-8-85.8. Indemnification of farmers markets. A municipality may: (1) operate a farmers market, as defined in Section, on municipality-owned property in order to promote economic development; 4-5-102 (2) indemnify a food producer participating in the farmers market; and (3) defi…

10-8-85.9. Preservation of historical areas and sites. A municipality may: (1) expend public funds to preserve, protect, or enhance an historical area or site; (2) acquire an historical area or site by direct purchase, contract, lease, trade, or gift; (3) obtain an easement or ri…