General Powers

  1. Law
  2. Utah Code
  3. Utah Municipal Code
  4. Powers and Duties of Municipalities
  5. General Powers

Checkout our iOS App for a better way to browser and research.

Section
1

Control of finances and property.

Section
1.5

Authority to make benefits generally available to employees, their dependents, and an adult designee -- Registry authorized -- Limitations.

Section
1.7

Use of incremental tax revenue for relocation expenses of displaced mobile home park residents.

Section
2

Appropriations -- Acquisition and disposal of property -- Municipal authority -- Corporate purpose -- Procedure -- Notice of intent to acquire real property.

Section
2.5

Prohibition against spending certain transportation funds.

Section
3

Tax districts.

Section
4

Special taxes and licenses.

Section
5

Erection and care of buildings.

Section
6

Borrowing power -- Warrants and bonds.

Section
7

Refunding bonds -- Purpose of issuance.

Section
8

Streets, parks, airports, parking facilities, public grounds, and pedestrian malls.

Section
8.6

Widening a street or alley.

Section
9

Bathhouses, playgrounds.

Section
10

Trees.

Section
11

Streets -- Encroachments, lighting, sprinkling, cleaning.

Section
13

Conduits, drains, etc.

Section
14

Utility and telecommunications services -- Service beyond municipal limits -- Retainage -- Notice of service and agreement.

Section
14.5

Utility easements -- Use for water or sewerage service.

Section
15

Waterworks -- Construction -- Extraterritorial jurisdiction.

Section
16

Watercourses leading to and within city -- Mill privileges.

Section
17

City may act as distributing agent -- Collection of operating costs from users.

Section
18

Acquisition of water sources -- Retainage.

Section
19

Water supply -- Special tax for increasing supply when city acting as distributing agent.

Section
20

Lighting works -- Contracts -- Retainage.

Section
21

Lighting facilities -- Sale of gas and electric power -- Erection and removal of poles and wires.

Section
22

Water rates.

Section
23

Sidewalks -- Regulation and control -- Owners required to remove weeds, litter, snow and ice.

Section
24

Litter in streets.

Section
25

Crosswalks, curbs and gutters.

Section
26

Signs and advertising material.

Section
27

Placards and handbills.

Section
28

Flags and banners.

Section
29

Sales and merchandising on streets.

Section
30

Traffic regulations.

Section
31

Numbering houses and lots.

Section
32

Naming streets and public places.

Section
33

Railroads -- Tracks and franchises.

Section
34

Change of grade and crossings -- Nonuser as grounds for removal.

Section
35

Fences, cattle guards and street crossings -- Duty of railroads.

Section
36

Flagmen -- Grade crossings -- Drains along tracks.

Section
37

Construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges, viaducts, and tunnels -- Retainage.

Section
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.

Section
41

Prostitution, lewd or perverted acts, gambling, and obscene or lewd publications.

Section
41.5

Regulation of sexually oriented business.

Section
41.6

Regulation of retail tobacco specialty business.

Section
42

Intoxicating liquors -- Prohibitions on manufacture, sale, possession, etc.

Section
43

Establishment and regulation of markets -- Sale of meats, poultry, etc.

Section
44

Food stuffs -- Regulation and inspection.

Section
44.5

Prohibition against regulation of nutritional information dissemination.

Section
44.6

Regulation of drive-through facilities.

Section
45

Weights and measures -- Inspection and sealing.

Section
46

Plumbing -- Regulation of construction and repair -- Board of examiners.

Section
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 nicotine products to minors -- Possession of controlled substances -- Treatment of alcoholics and narcotics or drug addicts.

Section
47.5

Knives regulated by state.

Section
49

Vagrants -- Arrest -- Fine -- Putting to work -- Municipal lodging.

Section
50

Disturbing the peace -- Public intoxication -- Fighting -- Obscene language -- Disorderly conduct -- Lewd behavior -- Interference with officers -- Trespass.

Section
51

Beggars, prostitutes, swindlers -- Punishment.

Section
52

Buildings -- Fire limits -- Removal and destruction of buildings violating ordinance.

Section
53

Fire escapes -- Construction -- Building exits -- Fire extinguishers.

Section
53.5

Regulation of carbon monoxide detectors -- Enforcement against occupant only.

Section
54

Regulation of construction and condition of chimneys and heating equipment -- Disposal of ashes.

Section
55

Fire departments -- Fire-fighting equipment -- Rules and regulations.

Section
55.5

Prohibition of flat response fee.

Section
56

Storage of combustibles and explosives -- Use of lights -- Bonfires.

Section
57

Inspection of boilers -- Licensing of stationary engineers.

Section
58

Jails and workhouses -- Establishment and maintenance.

Section
58.5

Contracting for management, maintenance, operation, or construction of jails.

Section
59

Cruelty to animals.

Section
60

Nuisances.

Section
62

Cemeteries -- Purchase and operation.

Section
63

Burial of dead -- Vital statistics.

Section
65

Regulation of dogs -- Service animals permitted.

Section
66

Offensive businesses -- Regulation of management and construction.

Section
67

Pigsties, privies, other offensive establishments -- Prohibiting establishment.

Section
68

Census.

Section
69

Conduct that interferes with or impedes traffic.

Section
70

Lumberyards and combustible materials.

Section
71

Waterworks -- Police and fire signals -- Retainage.

Section
72

Libraries and reading rooms -- Establishment and maintenance.

Section
73

Processions and demonstrations.

Section
74

Burial of indigents.

Section
75

Destitute children.

Section
76

Noise abatement -- Street performances.

Section
77

Untied animals in streets.

Section
78

Official bonds and reports.

Section
79

Creating offices -- Filling vacancies.

Section
81

Social clubs and athletic associations.

Section
82

Railroads -- Removal of unused tracks.

Section
83

Railroad gates -- Kind and quality -- Installation.

Section
84

Ordinances, rules, and regulations -- Passage -- Penalties.

Section
84.5

Limitations on employee benefits imposed by a municipality.

Section
85

Prison labor and fines.

Section
85.4

Ordinances regarding short-term rentals -- Prohibition on ordinances restricting speech on short-term rental websites.

Section
85.5

"Rental dwelling" defined -- Municipality may require a business license or a regulatory business license and inspections -- Exception.

Section
85.6

Definitions -- Electronic payments -- Fee.

Section
85.7

Implements of husbandry tracking debris onto municipal roads.

Section
85.8

Indemnification of farmers markets.

Section
85.9

Preservation of historical areas and sites.