(1) The state auditor may withhold state money allocated to a city for its failure to file a copy of a formally adopted budget when required or its failure to comply substantially with the annual financial reporting or independent auditing requirements required under this chapter.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 10-6-104

  • Budget: means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal period which embodies estimates of proposed expenditures for given purposes and the proposed means of financing them. See Utah Code 10-6-106
  • City: means a municipality that is classified by population as a city of the first class, a city of the second class, a city of the third class, a city of the fourth class, or a city of the fifth class, under Section 10-2-301. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
(2) Upon the city’s compliance with the requirement, the state auditor shall distribute the money to the city.