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- Adequate protests: means , for all proposed assessment areas except sewer assessment areas, timely filed, written protests under Section
11-42-203 that represent at least 40% of the frontage, area, taxable value, fair market value, lots, number of connections, or equivalent residential units of the property proposed to be assessed, according to the same assessment method by which the assessment is proposed to be levied, after eliminating:(1)(a)(i) protests relating to:(1)(a)(i)(A) property that has been deleted from a proposed assessment area; or(1)(a)(i)(B) an improvement that has been deleted from the proposed improvements to be provided to property within the proposed assessment area; and(1)(a)(ii) protests that have been withdrawn under Subsection11-42-203 (3). See Utah Code 11-42-102- Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Agreement: means an oral or written agreement between a public entity and a person. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Appointed officer: includes an individual serving on a special, regular, or full-time committee, agency, or board, regardless of whether the individual is compensated for the individual's services. See Utah Code 10-3-1303
- Appraisal: A determination of property value.
- Assessment area: means an area, or, if more than one area is designated, the aggregate of all areas within a local entity's jurisdictional boundaries that is designated by a local entity under Part 2, Designating an Assessment Area, for the purpose of financing the costs of improvements, operation and maintenance, or economic promotion activities that benefit property within the area. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Assessment bonds: means bonds that are:
(3)(a) issued under Section11-42-605 ; and(3)(b) payable in part or in whole from assessments levied in an assessment area, improvement revenues, and a guaranty fund or reserve fund. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Assessment fund: means a special fund that a local entity establishes under Section
11-42-412 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Assessment lien: means a lien on property within an assessment area that arises from the levy of an assessment, as provided in Section
11-42-501 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Assessment method: means the method:
(6)(a) by which an assessment is levied against benefitted property, whether by frontage, area, taxable value, fair market value, lot, parcel, number of connections, equivalent residential unit, any combination of these methods, or any other method; and(6)(b) that, when applied to a benefitted property, accounts for an assessment that meets the requirements of Section11-42-409 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Assessment ordinance: means an ordinance adopted by a local entity under Section
11-42-404 that levies an assessment on benefitted property within an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Assessment resolution: means a resolution adopted by a local entity under Section
11-42-404 that levies an assessment on benefitted property within an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Assist: means to act, or offer or agree to act, in such a way as to help, represent, aid, advise, furnish information to, or otherwise provide assistance to a person or business entity, believing that such action is of help, aid, advice, or assistance to such person or business entity and with the intent to assist such person or business entity. See Utah Code 10-3-1303
- Banned member: means a member whose account or profile is the subject of a fraud ban. See Utah Code 13-67-101
- Benefitted property: means property within an assessment area that directly or indirectly benefits from improvements, operation and maintenance, or economic promotion activities. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Bond anticipation notes: means notes issued under Section
11-42-602 in anticipation of the issuance of assessment bonds. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Bonds: means assessment bonds and refunding assessment bonds. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Business entity: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity or association used to carry on a business for profit. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Business entity: means a sole proprietorship, partnership, association, joint venture, corporation, firm, trust, foundation, or other organization or entity used in carrying on a business. See Utah Code 10-3-1303
- 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- City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section
10-3c-102 . See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Commercial area: means an area in which at least 75% of the property is devoted to the interchange of goods or commodities. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Compensation: means anything of economic value, however designated, which is paid, loaned, granted, given, donated, or transferred to a person or business entity by anyone other than the governmental employer for or in consideration of personal services, materials, property, or any other thing whatsoever. See Utah Code 10-3-1303
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Contract price: means :
(15)(a) the cost of acquiring an improvement, if the improvement is acquired; or(15)(b) the amount payable to one or more contractors for the design, engineering, inspection, and construction of an improvement. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Criminal background screening: means a name search for an individual's criminal conviction and is conducted by searching:
(2)(a) available and regularly updated government public record databases that in the aggregate provide national coverage for criminal conviction records; or(2)(b) a regularly updated database with national coverage of criminal conviction records and sexual offender registries maintained by a private vendor. See Utah Code 13-67-101- Criminal conviction: includes an offense that would require registration under Title 77, Chapter 41, Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry, or under a similar law in a different jurisdiction. See Utah Code 13-67-101
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
- Designation ordinance: means an ordinance adopted by a local entity under Section
11-42-206 designating an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Designation resolution: means a resolution adopted by a local entity under Section
11-42-206 designating an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Determination of violation: means a determination by the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity of substantial likelihood that a retail facility incentive payment has been made in violation of Section
11-41-103 , in accordance with Section11-41-104 . See Utah Code 11-41-102- Development authority: means :
(18)(a) the Utah Inland Port Authority created in Section11-58-201 ; or(18)(b) the military installation development authority created in Section63H-1-201 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Division: means the Division of Consumer Protection in the Department of Commerce. See Utah Code 13-67-101
- Economic promotion activities: means activities that promote economic growth in a commercial area of a local entity, including:
(19)(a) sponsoring festivals and markets;(19)(b) promoting business investment or activities;(19)(c) helping to coordinate public and private actions; and(19)(d) developing and issuing publications designed to improve the economic well-being of the commercial area. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Elected officer: means :
(5)(a) an individual elected or appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of mayor, commissioner, or council member; or(5)(b) an individual who is considered to be elected to the office of mayor, commissioner, or council member by a municipal legislative body in accordance with Section20A-1-206 . See Utah Code 10-3-1303- Environmental mitigation: means an action or activity intended to remedy known negative impacts to the environment. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Environmental remediation activity: means a surface or subsurface enhancement, effort, cost, initial or ongoing maintenance expense, facility, installation, system, earth movement, or change to grade or elevation that improves the use, function, aesthetics, or environmental condition of publicly owned property. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- Equivalent residential unit: means a dwelling, unit, or development that is equal to a single-family residence in terms of the nature of its use or impact on an improvement to be provided in the assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Executive director: means the executive director of the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Fixed Rate: Having a "fixed" rate means that the APR doesn't change based on fluctuations of some external rate (such as the "Prime Rate"). In other words, a fixed rate is a rate that is not a variable rate. A fixed APR can change over time, in several circumstances:
- You are late making a payment or commit some other default, triggering an increase to a penalty rate
- The bank changes the terms of your account and you do not reject the change.
- The rate expires (if the rate was fixed for only a certain period of time).
- Forbearance: A means of handling a delinquent loan. A
- Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
- Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
- Fraud ban: means the expulsion of a member from an online dating service because, in the judgment of the online dating service provider, there is a significant risk the member will attempt to obtain money from another member through fraudulent means. See Utah Code 13-67-101
- General plan: means the same as that term is defined in Section
23A-6-101 . See Utah Code 11-41-102- Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
- Governing body: means collectively the legislative body and the executive of any municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
- Governing body: means :
(22)(a) for a county, city, or town, the legislative body of the county, city, or town;(22)(b) for a special district, the board of trustees of the special district;(22)(c) for a special service district:(22)(c)(i) the legislative body of the county, city, or town that established the special service district, if no administrative control board has been appointed under Section17D-1-301 ; or(22)(c)(ii) the administrative control board of the special service district, if an administrative control board has been appointed under Section17D-1-301 ;(22)(d) for the military installation development authority created in Section63H-1-201 , the board, as defined in Section63H-1-102 ;(22)(e) for the Utah Inland Port Authority, created in Section11-58-201 , the board, as defined in Section11-58-102 ; and(22)(f) for a public infrastructure district, the board of the public infrastructure district as defined in Section17D-4-102 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Guaranty fund: means the fund established by a local entity under Section
11-42-701 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Improved property: means property upon which a residential, commercial, or other building has been built. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Incidental refunding costs: means any costs of issuing refunding assessment bonds and calling, retiring, or paying prior bonds, including:
(27)(a) legal and accounting fees;(27)(b) charges of financial advisors, escrow agents, certified public accountant verification entities, and trustees;(27)(c) underwriting discount costs, printing costs, the costs of giving notice;(27)(d) any premium necessary in the calling or retiring of prior bonds;(27)(e) fees to be paid to the local entity to issue the refunding assessment bonds and to refund the outstanding prior bonds;(27)(f) any other costs that the governing body determines are necessary and proper to incur in connection with the issuance of refunding assessment bonds; and(27)(g) any interest on the prior bonds that is required to be paid in connection with the issuance of the refunding assessment bonds. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Installment payment date: means the date on which an installment payment of an assessment is payable. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
- Interim warrant: means a warrant issued by a local entity under Section
11-42-601 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Jurisdictional boundaries: means :
(30)(a) for a county, the boundaries of the unincorporated area of the county; and(30)(b) for each other local entity, the boundaries of the local entity. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Land: includes :
(18)(a) land;(18)(b) a tenement;(18)(c) a hereditament;(18)(d) a water right;(18)(e) a possessory right; and(18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- Local entity: means :
(31)(a) a county, city, town, special service district, or special district;(31)(b) an interlocal entity as defined in Section11-13-103 ;(31)(c) the military installation development authority, created in Section63H-1-201 ;(31)(d) a public infrastructure district under Title 17D, Chapter 4, Public Infrastructure District Act, including a public infrastructure district created by a development authority;(31)(e) the Utah Inland Port Authority, created in Section11-58-201 ; or(31)(f) any other political subdivision of the state. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Local entity obligations: means assessment bonds, refunding assessment bonds, interim warrants, and bond anticipation notes issued by a local entity. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Mailing address: means :
(33)(a) a property owner's last-known address using the name and address appearing on the last completed real property assessment roll of the county in which the property is located; and(33)(b) if the property is improved property:(33)(b)(i) the property's street number; or(33)(b)(ii) the post office box, rural route number, or other mailing address of the property, if a street number has not been assigned. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Member: means an individual who submits to an online dating service provider the information required by the online dating service provider to access the online dating service provider's online dating service. See Utah Code 13-67-101
- Mixed-use development: means development with mixed land uses, including housing. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Moderate income housing plan: means the moderate income housing plan element of a general plan. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
- Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
- Municipal employee: means an individual who is employed on a full or part-time basis by a municipality or by a community reinvestment agency under Title 17C, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Community Reinvestment Agency Act. See Utah Code 10-3-1303
- Municipality: means :
(5)(a) a city of the first class, city of the second class, city of the third class, city of the fourth class, city of the fifth class;(5)(b) a town, as classified in Section10-2-301 ; or(5)(c) a preliminary municipality incorporated under Chapter 2a, Part 5, Incorporation of a Preliminary Municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104- Net improvement revenues: means all improvement revenues that a local entity has received since the last installment payment date, less all amounts payable by the local entity from those improvement revenues for operation and maintenance costs. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Office: means the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Officer: means an appointed officer or an elected officer. See Utah Code 10-3-1303
- Online dating service: means a product or service that is:
(7)(a) conducted through a website or a mobile application; and(7)(b) primarily marketed and intended to offer a member access to dating or romantic relationships with another member by arranging or facilitating the social introduction of members. See Utah Code 13-67-101- Online dating service provider: means a person predominately engaged in the business of offering an online dating service. See Utah Code 13-67-101
- Overhead costs: means the actual costs incurred or the estimated costs to be incurred by a local entity in connection with an assessment area for appraisals, legal fees, filing fees, financial advisory charges, underwriting fees, placement fees, escrow, trustee, and paying agent fees, publishing and mailing costs, costs of levying an assessment, recording costs, and all other incidental costs. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-1-104
- Person: means :
(24)(a) an individual;(24)(b) an association;(24)(c) an institution;(24)(d) a corporation;(24)(e) a company;(24)(f) a trust;(24)(g) a limited liability company;(24)(h) a partnership;(24)(i) a political subdivision;(24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and(24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Political subdivision: means any county, city, town, school district, special district, special service district, community reinvestment agency, or entity created by an interlocal agreement adopted under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Prior bonds: means the assessment bonds that are refunded in part or in whole by refunding assessment bonds. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Project engineer: means the surveyor or engineer employed by or the private consulting engineer engaged by a local entity to perform the necessary engineering services for and to supervise the construction or installation of the improvements. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Property: includes real property and any interest in real property, including water rights and leasehold rights. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Property price: means the price at which a local entity purchases or acquires by eminent domain property to make improvements in an assessment area. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Public agency: means :
(44)(a) the state or any agency, department, or division of the state; and(44)(b) a political subdivision of the state. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Public entity: means :
(11)(a) a political subdivision;(11)(b) a department, commission, board, council, agency, institution, officer, corporation, fund, division, office, committee, authority, laboratory, library, unit, bureau, panel, or other administrative unit of the executive branch of the state;(11)(c) a higher education institution as defined in Section53B-1-201 ;(11)(d) the Military Installation Development Authority created in Section63H-1-201 ;(11)(e) the Utah Inland Port Authority created in Section11-58-201 ; or(11)(f) the Point of the Mountain State Land Authority created in Section11-59-201 . See Utah Code 11-41-102- Public funds: means any money received by a public entity that is derived from:
(12)(a) a sales and use tax authorized under Title 59, Chapter 12, Sales and Use Tax Act; or(12)(b) a property tax levy. See Utah Code 11-41-102- Public infrastructure: means :
(13)(a) a public facility as defined in Section11-36a-102 ; or(13)(b) public infrastructure included as part of an infrastructure master plan related to a general plan. See Utah Code 11-41-102- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- real property: includes :
(31)(a) land;(31)(b) a tenement;(31)(c) a hereditament;(31)(d) a water right;(31)(e) a possessory right; and(31)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Reduced payment obligation: means the full obligation of an owner of property within an assessment area to pay an assessment levied on the property after the assessment has been reduced because of the issuance of refunding assessment bonds, as provided in Section
11-42-608 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Refunding assessment bonds: means assessment bonds that a local entity issues under Section
11-42-607 to refund, in part or in whole, assessment bonds. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Reserve fund: means a fund established by a local entity under Section
11-42-702 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- Retail facility: means any facility operated by a business entity for the primary purpose of making retail transactions. See Utah Code 11-41-102
- Retail facility incentive payment: means a payment of public funds:
(15)(a)(i) to a person by a public entity;(15)(a)(ii) for the development, construction, renovation, or operation of a retail facility within an area of the state; and(15)(a)(iii) in the form of:(15)(a)(iii)(A) a payment;(15)(a)(iii)(B) a rebate;(15)(a)(iii)(C) a refund;(15)(a)(iii)(D) a subsidy; or(15)(a)(iii)(E) any other similar incentive, award, or offset. See Utah Code 11-41-102- Road: includes :
(33)(a) a public bridge;(33)(b) a county way;(33)(c) a county road;(33)(d) a common road; and(33)(e) a state road. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Service: means :
(48)(a) water, sewer, storm drainage, garbage collection, library, recreation, communications, or electric service;(48)(b) economic promotion activities; or(48)(c) any other service that a local entity is required or authorized to provide. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
- Several obligors: means obligors severally bound for the same performance. See Utah Code 15-4-1
- Sewer assessment area: means an assessment area that has as the assessment area's primary purpose the financing and funding of public improvements to provide sewer service where there is, in the opinion of the local board of health, substantial evidence of septic system failure in the defined area due to inadequate soils, high water table, or other factors proven to cause failure. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Sex: means , in relation to an individual, the individual's biological sex, either male or female, at birth, according to distinct reproductive roles as manifested by:
(34)(a) sex and reproductive organ anatomy;(34)(b) chromosomal makeup; and(34)(c) endogenous hormone profiles. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- Small business: means a business entity that:
(17)(a)(i) has fewer than 30 full-time equivalent employees; and(17)(a)(ii) maintains the business entity's principal office in the state. See Utah Code 11-41-102- Special district: means a special district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Special Districts. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Special service district: means the same as that term is defined in Section
17D-1-102 . See Utah Code 11-42-102- 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
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Substantial interest: means the ownership, either legally or equitably, by an individual, the individual's spouse, or the individual's minor children, of at least 10% of the outstanding shares of a corporation or 10% interest in any other business entity. See Utah Code 10-3-1303
- Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
- Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
- Town: means a municipality classified by population as a town under Section
10-2-301 . See Utah Code 10-1-104- Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section
10-3c-102 . See Utah Code 68-3-12.5- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- Unassessed benefitted government property: means property that a local entity may not assess in accordance with Section
11-42-408 but is benefitted by an improvement, operation and maintenance, or economic promotion activities. See Utah Code 11-42-102- Unimproved property: means property upon which no residential, commercial, or other building has been built. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Utah member: means a member who provides a Utah billing address or zip code when registering with an online dating service provider. See Utah Code 13-67-101
- Variable Rate: Having a "variable" rate means that the APR changes from time to time based on fluctuations in an external rate, normally the Prime Rate. This external rate is known as the "index." If the index changes, the variable rate normally changes. Also see Fixed Rate.
- Voluntary assessment area: means an assessment area that contains only property whose owners have voluntarily consented to an assessment. See Utah Code 11-42-102
- Writing: includes :
(48)(a) printing;(48)(b) handwriting; and(48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5