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

35A-7-101. Title. This chapter is known as the "Centralized New Hire Registry Act."

35A-7-102. Definitions. As used in this chapter: (1) "Business day" means a day on which state offices are open for regular business. (2) "Compensation" means payment owed by an employer for labor or services performed by an employee. (3) "Date of hire" means the date labor or se…

35A-7-103. Establishment of registry. (1) The Department of Workforce Services, through contract with the Office of Recovery Services, shall establish a centralized new hire registry database for the purpose of receiving and maintaining information on newly hired or rehired emplo…

35A-7-104. Reporting requirements. (1) An employer that hires or rehires an employee shall send to the department: the employee's name, address, Social Security number, and date of hire or date of rehire; and the employer's name, address, and federal tax identification number. (2…

35A-7-105. Requirements of the new hire registry. (1) Within five business days after receiving information described in Section, the department shall: 35A-7-104 enter the information into the registry; conduct an automated comparison of the social security numbers reported by em…

35A-7-106. Penalties for failure to report. (1) An employer who fails to timely report the hiring or rehiring of an employee as required by this chapter is subject to a civil penalty of: $25 for each such failure; or $500 if the failure to report is intentional and is the result …

35A-7-107. Use and access to the registry records. (1) The records of the registry shall be maintained as private records under Section. 63G-2-202 In addition to those persons granted access to private records under Sectionsand, state or federal agencies may access data from the …

35A-7-108. Authorization to contract for services and collect funds. (1) The department may contract for services to assist with the implementation of this chapter. (2) The department, through contract with the Office of Recovery Services, may collect fees from state and federal …

35A-8-1001. Title. This part is known as the "State Community Services Act."

35A-8-1002. Definitions. As used in this part: (1) "Community action agency" means a local subdivision of the state, a combination of political subdivisions, a separate public agency, or a private nonprofit agency, which: has the authority under its applicable charter or laws to …

35A-8-1003. State Community Services Office created -- Purpose. (1) There is created within the Division of Community Services the State Community Services Office. (2) The office shall strengthen communities by reducing poverty and improving the quality of life for low-income per…

35A-8-1004. Duties of office. The office shall: (1) coordinate state activities designed to reduce poverty; (2) encourage entities in the private sector to participate in efforts to ameliorate poverty in the community; (3) cooperate with agencies of local, state, and the federal …

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…