Title 10, Title 10: Utah Municipal Code

10-8-11. Streets -- Encroachments, lighting, sprinkling, cleaning. They may regulate the use of streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, crosswalks, parks, and public grounds, install, prevent, or remove obstructions and encroachments thereon, and provide for the lighting, sprinkling…

10-8-13. Conduits, drains, etc. They may regulate the opening and use of streets, alleys, sidewalks, crosswalks and public grounds for the laying of gas or water mains and of conduits and pipes, and the building and repairing of sewers, tunnels, conduits and drains.

10-8-14. Utility and telecommunications services -- Service beyond municipal limits -- Retainage -- Notice of service and agreement. (1) As used in this section, "communications service facility" means the same as that term is defined in Section. 10-18-102 (2) A municipality may:…

10-8-14.5. Utility easements -- Use for water or sewerage service. (1) If a municipality grants a general utility easement for the provision of electric, gas, or telephone service, the grant may also provide that the easement may be used by the corporation or other entity that pr…

10-8-15. Waterworks -- Construction -- Extraterritorial jurisdiction -- Notice. (1) As used in this section, "affected entity" means a: county that has land use authority over land subject to an ordinance or regulation described in this section; local health department, as that t…

10-8-16. Watercourses leading to and within city -- Mill privileges. They may control the water and watercourses leading to the city and regulate and control the watercourses and mill privileges within the city; provided, that the control may not be exercised to the injury of any…

10-8-17. City may act as distributing agent -- Collection of operating costs from users. (1) When the governing body of a city is acting as distributing agent of water, not the property of the corporation, outside of or within its corporate limits, the governing body may annually…

10-8-18. Acquisition of water sources -- Retainage. (1) They may construct, purchase or lease and maintain canals, ditches, artesian wells and reservoirs, may appropriate, purchase or lease springs, streams or sources of water supply for the purpose of providing water for irrigat…

10-8-19. Water supply -- Special tax for increasing supply when city acting as distributing agent. (1) Whenever a city is acting as distributing agent of water, not the property of the corporation, outside of or within the corporate limits of such city, upon written petition of t…

10-8-2. Appropriations -- Acquisition and disposal of property -- Municipal authority -- Corporate purpose -- Procedure -- Notice of intent to acquire real property. (1) Subject to Section, a municipal legislative body may: 11-41-103 appropriate money for corporate purposes only;…

10-8-2.5. Prohibition against spending certain transportation funds. (1) As used in this section: "Apportioned" means divided or assigned among the states based on a prescribed formula established in 23 U.S.C. "Authorization act" means an act of Congress enacted after July 1, 200…

10-8-20. Lighting works -- Contracts -- Retainage. (1) They may contract with and authorize any person, company or association to construct gas works, electric or other lighting works within the city, and give such persons, company or association the privilege of furnishing light…

10-8-21. Lighting facilities -- Sale of gas and electric power -- Erection and removal of poles and wires. They may provide for the lighting of streets and the erection of necessary appliances and lamp posts; may regulate the sale and use of gas, natural gas and electric or other…

10-8-22. Water rates. (1) As used in this section: "Designated water service area" means the area defined by a municipality in accordance with the, Subsection. (1)(c) "Large municipal drinking water system" means a municipally owned and operated drinking water system serving a po…

10-8-23. Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice. They may regulate and control the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder or thereover; and they may require the owner or occupant, or the agent of any owner or occupant,…

10-8-24. Litter in streets. They may regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage or any offensive matter in, and prevent injury or obstruction to, any street, sidewalk, avenue, alley, park or public ground.

10-8-25. Crosswalks, curbs and gutters. They may provide for and regulate the use of crosswalks, curbs and gutters.

10-8-26. Signs and advertising material. They may regulate or prevent the use of streets, sidewalks, public buildings and grounds for signs, signposts, awnings, horse troughs or racks, or for posting handbills or advertisements.

10-8-27. Placards and handbills. They may regulate or prohibit the exhibition, distribution or carrying of placards or handbills on the streets, public grounds or sidewalks.

10-8-28. Flags and banners. They may regulate or prevent the flying of flags, banners or signs across the streets or from houses.

10-8-29. Sales and merchandising on streets. They may regulate merchandising and sales upon the streets, sidewalks and public places.

10-8-3. Tax districts. They may divide the city into districts for the purpose of local taxation as occasion may require.

10-8-30. Traffic regulations. They may regulate the movement of traffic on the streets, sidewalks and public places, including the movement of pedestrians as well as of vehicles, and the cars and engines of railroads, street railroads and tramways, and may prevent racing and immo…

10-8-31. Numbering houses and lots. They may regulate the numbering of houses and lots.

10-8-32. Naming streets and public places. They may name streets, courts, parks, thoroughfares and other public places and change the names thereof.

10-8-33. Railroads -- Tracks and franchises. They may permit, regulate or prohibit the locating, constructing or laying of the tracks of any railroad, or tramway in any street, alley or public place; and may by ordinance grant franchises to railroad and street railroad companies,…

10-8-34. Change of grade and crossings -- Nonuser as grounds for removal. They may provide for or change the location, grade or crossing of any railroad; and declare a nuisance and take up and remove, or cause to be taken up and removed, the tracks of any railroad or street railw…

10-8-35. Fences, cattle guards and street crossings -- Duty of railroads. They may require railroad companies to fence their respective railroads or any portion of the same, and to construct cattle guards, crossings of streets and public roads, and keep the same in repair within …

10-8-36. Flagmen -- Grade crossings -- Drains along tracks. They may require railroad companies to keep flagmen at railroad crossings of streets, or otherwise provide protection against injury to persons or property; may compel railroad and street railroad companies to raise or l…

10-8-37. Construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- Retainage. (1) They may construct and keep in repair bridges, viaducts and tunnels, and regulate the use thereof. (2) If any payment on a contract with a private person, firm, or corporation to co…

10-8-38. Drainage and sewage systems -- Construction regulation and control -- Retainage -- Mandatory hookup -- Charges for use -- Collection of charges -- Service to tenants -- Failure to pay for service -- Service outside municipality. (1) Boards of commissioners, city councils…

10-8-4. Special taxes and licenses. (1) Municipal legislative bodies may: subject to Subsection, fix the amount, terms, and manner of issuing licenses; and (2) consistent with general law, provide the manner and form in which special taxes are levied and collected. (2) Municipal …

10-8-41. Prostitution, lewd or perverted acts, gambling, and obscene or lewd publications. (1) Boards of commissioners and city councils of cities may suppress and prohibit the keeping of disorderly houses, houses of ill fame or assignation, or houses kept by, maintained for, or …

10-8-41.5. Regulation of sexually oriented business. (1) As used in this section: "Adult service" means dancing, serving food or beverages, modeling, posing, wrestling, singing, reading, talking, listening, or other performances or activities conducted by a nude or partially denu…

10-8-41.6. Regulation of retail tobacco specialty business. (1) As used in this section: "Community location" means: a public or private kindergarten, elementary, middle, junior high, or high school; a licensed child-care facility or preschool; a trade or technical school; a chur…

10-8-42. Intoxicating liquors -- Prohibitions on manufacture, sale, possession, etc. They may prohibit, except as provided by law, any person from knowingly having in the person's possession any intoxicating liquor, and the manufacture, sale, keeping or storing for sale, offering…

10-8-43. Establishment and regulation of markets -- Sale of meats, poultry, etc. They may establish markets and market houses, and provide for the regulation and use thereof, and provide for the place and the manner of sale of meats, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetable…

10-8-44. Food stuffs -- Regulation and inspection. They may provide for and regulate the inspection of meats, fruit, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, flour, meal and all other provisions, and provide for the inspection, measurement or graduation of any merchandise…

10-8-44.5. Prohibition against regulation of nutritional information dissemination. (1) A municipality may not regulate the dissemination of nutritional information or the content required to be placed on a menu, menu board, or food tag by a restaurant, eating establishment, or o…

10-8-44.6. Regulation of drive-through facilities. (1) As used in this section: "Business" means a private enterprise carried on for the purpose of gain or economic profit. "Business lobby" means a public area, including a lobby, dining area, or other area accessible to the publi…

10-8-45. Weights and measures -- Inspection and sealing. They may provide for the inspection, sealing and use of proper weights, measures, computing scales, and all weighing and measuring devices indicating the numerical value as well as weight or quantity.

10-8-46. Plumbing -- Regulation of construction and repair -- Board of examiners. They may regulate the construction, repair and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps, sewers, gutters and plumbing, and provide for a board of examiners to examine into the fitness and qua…

10-8-47. Intoxication -- Fights -- Disorderly conduct -- Assault and battery -- Petit larceny -- Riots and disorderly assemblies -- Firearms and fireworks -- False pretenses and embezzlement -- Sale of liquor, narcotics, tobacco products, electronic cigarette products, or nicotin…

10-8-47.5. Knives regulated by state. (1) As used in this section, "knife" means a cutting instrument that includes a sharpened or pointed blade. (2) The authority to regulate a knife is reserved to the state except where the Legislature specifically delegates responsibility to a…

10-8-49. Vagrants -- Arrest -- Fine -- Putting to work -- Municipal lodging. They may arrest and fine or set to work on the streets or elsewhere all vagrants, mendicants and persons found in the city without visible means of support or some legitimate business, and may establish …

10-8-5. Erection and care of buildings. They may erect all needful buildings for the use of the city, and provide for their care.