Title 35A, Title 35A: Utah Workforce Services Code

35A-8-1005. Distribution of Community Services Block Grant funds. Community Services Block Grant funds received by the office shall be distributed as follows: (1) 90% to community action agencies; (2) 5% to: organizations with a statewide focus to accomplish specific objectives t…

35A-8-1006. Evaluations -- Reports. (1) The office shall periodically evaluate grantees of Community Services Block Grant funds as established by rule by the division in accordance with. Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act (2) A grantee of Community Services …

35A-8-1007. Program development by grantees. Grantees of Community Services Block Grant funds shall develop specific programs and goals, consistent with the Community Services Block Grant Act, designed to provide the most effective solutions to the problems of poverty identified …

35A-8-1008. Recognition of community action agencies. The office may: (1) recognize eligible organizations as community action agencies; (2) withdraw the recognition or terminate funding of a designated community action agency for cause, as established by rule made by the divisio…

35A-8-1009. Qualified Emergency Food Agencies Fund -- Expenditure of revenues. (1) As used in this section: "Association of governments" means the following created under the authority of: Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act an association of governments; or a region…

35A-8-101. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Accessible housing" means housing which has been constructed or modified to be accessible, as described in the State Construction Code or an approved code under. Title 15A, State Construction and Fire Codes Act (2) "Director" …

35A-8-1401. Title. This part is known as the "Home Energy Assistance Target (HEAT) Program Act."

35A-8-1402. Assistance to low-income persons -- Contracts -- Administration. (1) The department may assist certain low-income families and individuals in the payment of home energy costs. Assistance given under this part shall be made available to households throughout the state,…

35A-8-1403. Eligibility criteria. (1) In accordance with, the department may make rules establishing eligibility criteria for recipients of assistance under this part. Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act (2) A recipient of assistance under this part shall dem…

35A-8-1404. Guidelines for private contributions -- Assuring equitable distribution. The department shall coordinate with private contributors to home energy assistance programs, such as REACH and Lend-a-Hand, to help assure equitable statewide distribution of assistance to eligi…

35A-8-1405. Payment method. Direct payments for home energy costs shall be made jointly to the responsible householder and to the vendor of energy services to whom the family or individual served owes a payment except in certain cases, as established by rule by the department in …

35A-8-1501. Moratorium on involuntary termination for nonpayment of utility bills -- Eligibility criteria -- Department to establish and certify. (1) The department shall establish a program for a seasonal moratorium for involuntary termination for nonpayment by residential custo…

35A-8-1502. Contesting a customer's eligibility -- Department to determine case. When a utility contests the eligibility of any residential customer to participate in the program, the executive director or the executive director's designee shall act as an administrative law judge…

35A-8-1503. Premoratorium customers' eligibility for moratorium -- Criteria. A residential customer that has had service of an essential utility discontinued for nonpayment prior to the time the moratorium takes effect shall have service restored and continued during the period o…

35A-8-1504. Effective period of moratorium -- Extension by rule. (1) The moratorium shall be in effect from November 15 to March 15 of each year. (2) The department may, by rule, begin the moratorium at an earlier date or extend it to a later date when severe weather conditions w…

35A-8-201. Division of Community Services. The Division of Community Services is under the administration and general supervision of the director.

35A-8-202. Powers and duties of division. (1) The division shall: assist local governments and citizens in the planning, development, and maintenance of necessary public infrastructure and services; cooperate with, and provide technical assistance to, counties, cities, towns, reg…

35A-8-401. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "Area of operation" means: in the case of an authority of a city, the city, except that the area of operation of an authority of a city does not include an area that lies within the territorial boundaries of some other city; or in…

35A-8-402. Creation of housing authority authorized -- Procedure -- Registration as a limited purpose entity. (1) The governing body of each public body of the state, except the state itself, may create an authority, corporate and politic, to be known as a "housing authority." (2…

35A-8-403. Indian housing authorities. (1) There is created, with respect to each Indian tribe, band, or community in the state, a public body corporate and politic, to function in the operating area of the Indian tribe, band, or community to be known as the "housing authority" o…

35A-8-404. Commissioners -- Appointment -- Terms -- Quorum -- Meetings -- Employment of other officers and employees authorized. (1) If a housing authority is authorized to transact business and exercise powers under this part, not less than five nor more than seven people shall …

35A-8-405. Disclosure of interest in project -- Restrictions. (1) A commissioner, officer, or employee of an authority, who has voluntarily acquired any of the following interests, shall disclose to the commissioners of the authority, as soon as the person has knowledge of the in…

35A-8-406. Misconduct of commissioners -- Removal. (1) A commissioner of an authority may be removed by the mayor or, in the case of an authority for a county, by the body that appointed the commissioner for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or misconduct in office. (2) A commission…

35A-8-407. Powers of housing authority. (1) An authority has perpetual succession and all the powers necessary to carry out the purposes of this part. (2) An authority may: sue and be sued; have a seal and alter the seal; make and execute contracts and other instruments necessary…

35A-8-408. Profit from projects prohibited -- Criteria for determining rentals and payments. (1) To accomplish the public, governmental, and charitable purposes of this part, the Legislature declares that: an authority manage and operate the authority's housing projects in an eff…

35A-8-409. Eligibility requirements for occupants -- Rights of obligee on default of authority. (1) An authority shall make rules establishing eligibility requirements consistent with the purposes and objectives of this part for admission to and continued occupancy in its project…

35A-8-410. Penalties for fraudulently obtaining or continuing to receive housing assistance benefits. (1) A person may not knowingly, by misrepresentation, impersonation, or other fraudulent means, make a false statement to housing authority personnel or, after being accepted as …

35A-8-411. Authorities may join or cooperate. (1) Two or more authorities may cooperate with one another or jointly exercise any or all of their powers for the purpose of financing, issuing bonds and other obligations and giving security for them, planning, undertaking, owning, c…

35A-8-412. Preference for elderly and persons with a disability. (1) For the purpose of increasing the supply of low-rent housing and related facilities for medium and low-income elderly and medium and low-income persons with a disability, an authority may exercise any of its pow…

35A-8-413. Victims of major disaster. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other law relating to rentals, preferences, or eligibility for admission or occupancy of dwellings in housing projects during the period an authority determines that there is an acute need for…

35A-8-414. Property and funds of authority declared public property -- Exemption from taxes -- Alternative agreement with public body. (1) The property and funds of an authority are declared to be public property used for essential public, governmental, and charitable purposes. (…

35A-8-415. Projects subject to local building regulations. A project of an authority is subject to the planning, zoning, sanitary, and building laws, ordinances, and regulations applicable to the locality in which the project is situated.

35A-8-416. Bonds authorized -- Payment -- Security -- Liability -- Purpose -- Exemption from taxes except corporate franchise tax. (1) An authority may: issue bonds for any of its corporate purposes; issue refunding bonds for the purpose of paying or retiring bonds previously iss…

35A-8-417. Bonds to be authorized by resolution -- Form -- Sale -- Negotiability -- Validity presumed. (1) Bonds of an authority are authorized by resolution, may be issued in one or more series, and shall as provided by the resolution or its trust indenture: bear dates, includin…

35A-8-418. Bonds and other obligations -- Additional powers of authority. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under leases and in order to secure the payment of bonds or obligations, an authority may: (1) pledge all or a part of its gross or n…

35A-8-419. Issuance of bonds -- Other laws not to apply. (1) This part constitutes full authority for the authorization and issuance of bonds. (2) No other law for the authorization or issuance of obligations or the deposit of their proceeds that requires a bond election or in an…

35A-8-420. Rights of obligees of authority. An obligee of an authority, in addition to all other rights conferred on the obligee subject to any contractual restrictions binding upon the obligee, may: (1) compel an authority, its officers, agents, or employees to perform each term…

35A-8-421. Obligees -- Additional rights conferred by authority. (1) An authority may by resolution, trust indenture, mortgage, lease, or other contract, confer upon an obligee the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon default as defined in a reso…

35A-8-422. Property of authority exempt from levy and sale -- Obligees excepted -- Waiver. (1) Property, including money, acquired or held by an authority under this part shall be exempt from levy and sale by virtue of an execution. An execution or other judicial process may not …

35A-8-423. Financial assistance from federal government permitted. (1) In addition to the powers conferred upon an authority by other provisions of this part, an authority may: borrow money or accept contributions, grants, or other financial assistance from the federal government…

35A-8-424. Defaults -- Conveyance of title to federal government. (1) In a contract with the federal government for annual contributions, the authority may obligate itself to convey to the federal government possession of or title to the project upon the occurrence of a substanti…

35A-8-425. Powers of public body aiding in project. (1) For the purpose of aiding and cooperating in the planning, undertaking, construction, or operation of projects located within its jurisdiction, a public body may, with or without consideration: dedicate, sell, convey, or lea…

35A-8-426. Agreement by public body to accept payment from authority in lieu of taxes. In connection with a project of a housing authority located wholly or partly within the area in which a public body is authorized to act, the public body may agree with the housing authority wi…

35A-8-427. Public body may provide financial aid. In addition to other aids provided, a public body may provide financial aid to a housing authority by: (1) loan, donation, grant, contribution, and appropriation of money; (2) abatement or remission of taxes; (3) payments in lieu …

35A-8-428. Investment in authority authorized. (1) The state, public officers, political subdivisions, public bodies, banks, bankers, trust companies, savings banks and institutions, building and loan associations, savings and loan associations, investment companies, insurance co…

35A-8-429. Annual report -- Budget -- Minutes. (1) At least once a year, an authority shall file with the clerk, with a copy given to the governing body, a report containing: its activities for the preceding year; its approved annual budget; and recommendations for legislation or…