Title 54, Title 54: Public Utilities

54-8-13. Assessment list to be prepared. After a decision is taken by a governing body to proceed with the district and project, it shall cause to be prepared an assessment list detailing the total amount to be assessed, the specific properties assessed, and the amount of assessm…

54-8-14. Declaration of costs -- Contents of resolution. After the preparation of the proposed assessment list, the governing body shall cause to be prepared for adoption at the hearing hereinafter provided for, a resolution declaring the entire cost of the improvement including …

54-8-15. Board of equalization and review -- Appointment -- Functions and authority. Whenever the governing body of any municipality shall propose to levy any tax under any provision of this chapter, it shall before doing so, appoint a board of equalization and review which shall…

54-8-16. Notice of assessment -- Publication. (1) After the preparation of a resolution under Section, the governing body shall give notice of a public hearing on the proposed assessments. 54-8-14 (2) The governing body shall provide the notice described in Subsectionfor the dist…

54-8-17. Assessments -- Hearings on -- Corrections of -- Assessment not to exceed benefit. On the date and at the time and place specified in the aforesaid notice, the governing body shall, in open and public session, hear all arguments relating to the benefits accruing to any tr…

54-8-18. Assessments -- Resolution to adopt. After the public hearing has been concluded and all corrections made to the assessment list, and in the case of a municipality, after receiving the report from the board of equalization and review, the governing body shall proceed to a…

54-8-19. Assessments -- Right to levy against property -- Due date -- Notice -- Payment in annual installments. (1) The governing body may levy the assessments under the assessment list in whole or in part at any time after the adoption of the assessment resolution, but if not le…

54-8-2. Legislative purpose. The Legislature finds that in many areas of the state, it is in the public interest to convert existing overhead electric and communication facilities to underground locations through the creation of an improvement district. The Legislature hereby dec…

54-8-20. Assessments -- Failure to pay installment -- Interest and penalties -- Lien on property -- Sale of property -- Disposition of proceeds. The failure to pay any installment and any interest thereon when due shall ipso facto cause all other installments and the interest the…

54-8-21. Assessments -- Prepayment of unpaid installments. The governing body may in the resolution levying the assessments provide that all unpaid installments of assessments levied against any piece of property may (but only in their entirety) be paid prior to the dates on whic…

54-8-22. Bonds -- Issuance authorized -- Amount -- Interest -- Additional requirements. After the expiration of 30 days from the date of the adoption of the resolution levying the assessments, the county legislative body may issue negotiable interest-bearing bonds in a principal …

54-8-23. Objection to amount of assessment -- Civil action -- Litigation to question or attack proceedings or legality of bonds -- Notice. (1) No special assessment levied under this chapter shall be declared void, nor shall any such assessment or part thereof be set aside in con…

54-8-24. Payment to utilities -- Allowable costs. (1) In determining the conversion costs included in the costs and feasibility report required by Section, the public utility corporations shall be entitled to amounts sufficient to repay them for the following, as computed and ref…

54-8-25. Utilities responsible for work -- May subcontract -- Title to converted facilities retained. (1) The utility concerned: shall be responsible for the accomplishment of all construction work to the point of delivery; and may contract out any part of the construction work a…

54-8-26. Notice that service from underground facilities is available -- Consequences of failure to convert overhead facilities. (1) If service from the underground public utility is to be made available to all or part of an improvement district area, the governing body of the co…

54-8-27. Bill for conversion costs -- Not to exceed estimate -- Payment within 30 days -- Accounting procedures. Upon completion of the conversion contemplated by this chapter, the public utility corporation shall present the governing body with its verified bill for conversion c…

54-8-28. Additional overhead facilities prohibited -- Exception. Once removed, no overhead electric or communication facilities shall be installed within the boundary of a local improvement district for conversion of overhead electric and communication facilities in nominal volta…

54-8-29. Jurisdiction over public utilities. Nothing contained in this chapter shall vest any jurisdiction over public utilities in the governing bodies. The Public Service Commission of Utah shall retain all jurisdiction now or hereafter conferred upon it by law.

54-8-3. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Assessment" means for the purpose of taxation wherever appropriate. (2) "Communication service" means the transmission of intelligence by electrical means, including telephone, telegraph, messenger-call, clock, police, fire alarm…

54-8-30. Commencement of conversion -- When required. If an improvement district is established pursuant to this chapter, the public utility corporations involved shall not be required to commence conversion until the ordinance, the assessment roll and issuance of bonds have beco…

54-8-4. Creation of local improvement districts authorized. The governing body of every county is hereby authorized and empowered to create local improvement districts under this chapter within the unincorporated portion of such county, and the governing body of every city and to…

54-8-5. Apportionment of costs -- Assessment against benefitted property -- Public lands not subject to assessment. (1) If an improvement district is created as provided in this chapter, the governing body of the county or municipality that created the improvement district may le…

54-8-6. Creation of improvement district -- Petition by property owners -- Resolution of governing body -- Utilities to submit reports. (1) A governing body may, upon a petition signed by two-thirds of the owners of the real property and the owners of not less than two-thirds in …

54-8-7. Reports of utilities -- Recommendations -- Estimate of costs. The public utility or utilities report shall set forth an estimate of the total underground conversion costs and shall also indicate the costs of underground conversion of facilities of the public utility corpo…

54-8-8. Approval of utilities' report by governing body -- Passage of resolutions -- Contents. On the filing with the clerk of any governing body of the costs and feasibility report by the public utility corporation(s), as hereinbefore provided and after considering the same, the…

54-8-9. Public hearing -- Notice -- Contents. (1) After the passage of the resolution in Section, the governing body shall cause notice of a public hearing on the proposed improvement to be given as provided in Section. 54-8-8 54-8-10 (2) The notice required under Subsectionshall…