Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 17C > Chapter 2 > Part 3 - Development Impediment Determination in Urban Renewal Project Areas

• Board: means the governing body of an agency, as described in Section 17C-1-203. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Community: means a county or municipality. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Development impediment: means a condition of an area that meets the requirements described in Section 17C-2-303 for an urban renewal project area or Section 17C-5-405 for a community reinvestment project area. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Development impediment study: means a study to determine whether a development impediment exists within a survey area as described in Section 17C-2-301 for an urban renewal project area or Section 17C-5-403 for a community reinvestment project area. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Division: means the Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining. See Utah Code 40-6-2
• Equal: means , with respect to biological sex, of the same value. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• 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.
• Inactive airport site: includes a perimeter of up to 2,500 feet around the land described in Subsection (30)(a). See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Inactive industrial site: includes a perimeter of up to 1,500 feet around the land described in Subsection (31)(a). See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• 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.
• 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}
• Municipality: means a cityor town. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Owner: means a person who has the right:
       (18)(a) to drill into and produce from a reservoir; and
       (18)(b) to appropriate the oil and gas produced for that person or for that person and others. See Utah Code 40-6-2
• Participant: means one or more persons that enter into a participation agreement with an agency. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Person: means the same as that term is defined in Section Utah Code 40-6-2
• 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
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Project area: means the geographic area described in a project area plan within which the project area development described in the project area plan takes place or is proposed to take place. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Project area development: means activity within a project area that, as determined by the board, encourages, promotes, or provides development or redevelopment for the purpose of implementing a project area plan, including:
       (48)(a) promoting, creating, or retaining public or private jobs within the state or a community;
       (48)(b) providing office, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, parking, or other facilities or improvements;
       (48)(c) planning, designing, demolishing, clearing, constructing, rehabilitating, or remediating environmental issues;
       (48)(d) providing residential, commercial, industrial, public, or other structures or spaces, including recreational and other facilities incidental or appurtenant to the structures or spaces;
       (48)(e) altering, improving, modernizing, demolishing, reconstructing, or rehabilitating existing structures;
       (48)(f) providing open space, including streets or other public grounds or space around buildings;
       (48)(g) providing public or private buildings, infrastructure, structures, or improvements;
       (48)(h) relocating a business;
       (48)(i) improving public or private recreation areas or other public grounds;
       (48)(j) eliminating a development impediment or the causes of a development impediment;
       (48)(k) redevelopment as defined under the law in effect before May 1, 2006; or
       (48)(l) any activity described in this Subsection (48) outside of a project area that the board determines to be a benefit to the project area. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Project area plan: means an urban renewal project area plan, an economic development project area plan, a community development project area plan, or a community reinvestment project area plan that, after the project area plan's effective date, guides and controls the project area development. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• record owner of property: means the owner of real property, as shown on the records of the county in which the property is located, to whom the property's tax notice is sent. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• 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
• Survey area: means a geographic area designated for study by a survey area resolution to determine whether:
       (58)(a) one or more project areas within the survey area are feasible; or
       (58)(b) a development impediment exists within the survey area. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Survey area resolution: means a resolution adopted by a board that designates a survey area. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Taxing entity: means a public entity that:
       (62)(a) levies a tax on property located within a project area; or
       (62)(b) imposes a sales and use tax under Title 59, Chapter 12, Sales and Use Tax Act. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Taxing entity committee: means a committee representing the interests of taxing entities, created in accordance with Section 17C-1-402. See Utah Code 17C-1-102
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5