Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 10 > Chapter 3 > Part 2 - Election of Governing Body

• Agency: means a community reinvestment agency functioning pursuant to Title 17C, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Community Reinvestment Agency Act. See Utah Code 11-25-3
• Caucus: From the Algonquian Indian language, a caucus meant "to meet together." An informal organization of members of the legislature that exists to discuss issues of mutual concern and possibly to perform legislative research and policy planning for its members. There are regional, political or ideological, ethnic, and economic-based caucuses.
• 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
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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.
• financing: includes the issuing of bonds by a municipality, county, or state university for the purpose of using a portion, or all or substantially all of the proceeds to pay for or to reimburse the user, lender, or the user or lender's designee for the costs of the acquisition of facilities of a project, or to create funds for the project itself where appropriate, whether these costs are incurred by the municipality, the county, the state university, the user, or a designee of the user. See Utah Code 11-17-2
• Financing: means the lending of money or any other thing of value for the purpose of residential rehabilitation. See Utah Code 11-25-3
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• Municipality: means any incorporated city or town in the state, including cities or towns operating under home rule charters. See Utah Code 11-17-2
• 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 Section 10-2-301; or
       (5)(c) a preliminary municipality incorporated under Chapter 2a, Part 5, Incorporation of a Preliminary Municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
• Participating party: means any person, company, corporation, partnership, firm, agency, political subdivision of the state, or other entity or group of entities requiring financing for residential rehabilitation pursuant to the provisions of this part. See Utah Code 11-25-3
• 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
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Residential rehabilitation: means the construction, reconstruction, renovation, replacement, extension, repair, betterment, equipping, developing, embellishing, or otherwise improving residences consistent with standards of strength, effectiveness, fire resistance, durability, and safety, so that the structures are satisfactory and safe to occupy for residential purposes and are not conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, or crime because of any one or more of the following factors:
       (8)(a) defective design and character of physical construction;
       (8)(b) faulty interior arrangement and exterior spacing;
       (8)(c) high density of population and overcrowding;
       (8)(d) inadequate provision for ventilation, light, sanitation, open spaces, and recreation facilities;
       (8)(e) age, obsolescence, deterioration, dilapidation, mixed character, or shifting of uses; and
       (8)(f) economic dislocation, deterioration, or disuse, resulting from faulty planning. See Utah Code 11-25-3
• Residential rehabilitation area: means the geographical area designated by the agency as one for inclusion in a comprehensive residential rehabilitation financing program pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. See Utah Code 11-25-3
• 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.
• Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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