§ 26B-1-201 Department of Health and Human Services — Creation — Duties
§ 26B-1-202 Department authority and duties
§ 26B-1-202 v2 Department authority and duties
§ 26B-1-202 v3 Department authority and duties
§ 26B-1-203 Executive director — Appointment — Compensation — Qualifications — Deputy directors required — Responsibilities
§ 26B-1-204 Creation of boards, divisions, and offices — Power to organize department
§ 26B-1-205 Division directors — Appointment — Compensation — Qualifications
§ 26B-1-206 Limitation on establishment of advisory bodies
§ 26B-1-207 Policymaking responsibilities — Regulations for local health departments prescribed by department — Local standards not more stringent than federal or state standards — Consultation with local health departments — Committee to evaluate health policies
§ 26B-1-208 Participation in federal programs — Federal grants — Authority of executive director
§ 26B-1-209 Fee schedule adopted by department
§ 26B-1-210 Department budget — Reports from divisions
§ 26B-1-211 Background checks for employees — Access to abuse and neglect information to screen employees and volunteers
§ 26B-1-212 Confidential records
§ 26B-1-213 Department and committee rules and proceedings
§ 26B-1-214 Executive director — Enforcement powers
§ 26B-1-215 Actions on behalf of department — Party in interest
§ 26B-1-216 Powers and duties of the department — Quality and design
§ 26B-1-217 Content and form of certificates and reports
§ 26B-1-218 Intergenerational poverty mitigation reporting
§ 26B-1-219 Requirements for issuing, recommending, or facilitating rationing criteria
§ 26B-1-220 Legal advice and representation for department
§ 26B-1-221 Administrative review of actions of department or director
§ 26B-1-222 Violation of public health laws or orders unlawful
§ 26B-1-223 Unlawful acts by department officers and employees
§ 26B-1-224 Criminal and civil penalties and liability for violations
§ 26B-1-225 Application of enforcement procedures and penalties
§ 26B-1-226 Representatives of department authorized to enter regulated premises
§ 26B-1-227 Authority of department as to functions transferred from other agencies
§ 26B-1-228 Religious exemptions from code — Regulation of state-licensed healing system practice unaffected by code
§ 26B-1-229 Authority to provide data on treatment and condition of persons to designated agencies — Immunity from liability — Information considered privileged communication — Information held in confidence — Penalties for violation
§ 26B-1-231 Office of American Indian-Alaska Native Health and Family Services — Creation — Director — Purpose — Duties
§ 26B-1-232 American Indian-Alaska Native Health Liaison — Appointment — Duties
§ 26B-1-233 Indian Child Welfare Act Liaison — Appointment — Qualifications — Duties
§ 26B-1-234 Handling of child sexual abuse material
§ 26B-1-235 Request for proposal required for non-state supplied services
§ 26B-1-236 Experimental animals — Authorization — Minimum period of impoundment — Requirements — Fees — Records — Revocation — Rulemaking and investigation
§ 26B-1-237 Office of Internal Audit
§ 26B-1-239 Systematic medical evidence review of hormonal transgender treatments
§ 26B-1-239 v2 Systematic medical evidence review of hormonal transgender treatments
§ 26B-1-240 License by endorsement
§ 26B-1-242 Prohibition on requiring immunity passports or vaccination — Exceptions
§ 26B-1-243 Office of Families — Definitions — Director — Purpose and duties

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Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 26B > Chapter 1 > Part 2 - Department of Health and Human Services

  • Adjudicative proceeding: means :
         (2)(a) an action by a board, commission, department, officer, or other administrative unit of the state that determines the legal rights, duties, privileges, immunities, or other legal interests of one or more identifiable persons, including an action to grant, deny, revoke, suspend, modify, annul, withdraw, or amend an authority, right, or license; and
         (2)(b) judicial review of an action described in Subsection (2)(a). See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
  • Affected electrical utility: means an electrical corporation with at least 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-17-102
  • Affected entity: means an entity as defined in Sections 10-9a-103 and 17-27a-103. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Affected landowner: means an owner of a property interest, as reflected in the most recent county or city tax records as receiving a property tax notice, whose property is located within a proposed corridor. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Antenna: means communications equipment that transmits or receives an electromagnetic radio frequency signal used in the provision of a wireless service. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • 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.
  • Applicant: means a wireless provider who submits an application. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Application: means a request submitted by a wireless provider to an authority for a permit to:
         (5)(a) collocate a small wireless facility in a right-of-way; or
         (5)(b) install, modify, or replace a utility pole or a wireless support structure. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
  • Authority: means :
              (6)(a)(i) the state;
              (6)(a)(ii) a state agency;
              (6)(a)(iii) a county;
              (6)(a)(iv) a municipality;
              (6)(a)(v) a town;
              (6)(a)(vi) a metrotownship;
              (6)(a)(vii) a subdivision of an entity described in Subsections (6)(a)(i) through (vi); or
              (6)(a)(viii) a special district or entity established to provide a single public service within a specific geographic area, including:
                   (6)(a)(viii)(A) a public utility district; or
                   (6)(a)(viii)(B) an irrigation district. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Authority pole: means a utility pole owned, managed, or operated by, or on behalf of, an authority. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Auxiliary services: means those services necessary to safely and reliably:
              (1)(a)(i) interconnect and transmit electric power from any clean energy resource constructed or acquired for a community clean energy program; and
              (1)(a)(ii) integrate and supplement electric power from any clean energy resource. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Avoided costs: means the incremental costs to an electrical corporation of electric energy or capacity or both that, due to the purchase of electric energy or capacity or both from small power production or cogeneration facilities, the electrical corporation would not have to generate itself or purchase from another electrical corporation. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Category one authority: means a single authority with a population of 65,000 or greater. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Category two authority: means a single authority with a population of less than 65,000. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Clean coal technology: means a technology that may be researched, developed, or used for reducing emissions or the rate of emissions from a thermal electric generation plant that uses coal as a fuel source. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Clean energy contract: means a contract under this part for the delivery of electricity from one or more clean energy facilities to a contract customer requiring the use of a qualified utility's transmission or distribution system to deliver the electricity from a clean energy facility to the contract customer. See Utah Code 54-17-801
  • Clean energy facility: means a clean energy source as defined in Section 54-17-601 that:
              (2)(a)(i) is located in the state; or
              (2)(a)(ii)
                   (2)(a)(ii)(A) is located outside the state; and
                   (2)(a)(ii)(B) provides energy from baseload clean resources. See Utah Code 54-17-801
  • Clean energy resource: means :
         (3)(a) electric energy generated by a source that is naturally replenished and includes one or more of the following:
              (3)(a)(i) wind;
              (3)(a)(ii) solar photovoltaic or thermal solar technology;
              (3)(a)(iii) a geothermal resource; or
              (3)(a)(iv) a hydroelectric plant including a pumped storage hydropower facility;
         (3)(b) use of an energy efficient and sustainable technology the commission has approved for implementation that:
              (3)(b)(i) increases efficient energy usage;
              (3)(b)(ii) is capable of being used for demand response;
              (3)(b)(iii) facilitates the use and development of clean generation resources through electrical grid management or energy storage; or
              (3)(b)(iv) uses carbon capture utilization and sequestration; or
         (3)(c) energy derived from nuclear fuel. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Clean energy tariff: means a tariff offered by a qualified utility that allows the qualified utility to procure clean generation on behalf of and to serve its customers. See Utah Code 54-17-801
  • Collocate: means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace a small wireless facility:
         (11)(a) on a wireless support structure or utility pole; or
         (11)(b) for ground-mounted equipment, adjacent to a wireless support structure or utility pole. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Commission: means the Public Service Commission. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Commission: means the Public Service Commission created in Section 54-1-1. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Communications service: means :
         (12)(a) a cable service, as defined in Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Communications service provider: means :
         (13)(a) a cable operator, as defined in Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Community clean energy program: means the program approved by the commission under Section 54-17-904 that allows a qualified utility to provide electric service from one or more clean energy resources to a participating customer within a participating community. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Construction: means the excavation, construction, and installation of a high voltage electric power line or upgraded high voltage transmission line. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Consumer price index: means the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food & Energy, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. See Utah Code 54-23-102
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contract customer: means a person who executes or will execute a clean energy contract with a qualified utility. See Utah Code 54-17-801
  • 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.
  • Corporation: includes an association and a joint stock company having any powers or privileges not possessed by individuals or partnerships. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • County: means the unincorporated area of a county. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Crossing: means a telecommunications facility constructed under or across a railroad right-of-way:
              (2)(a)(i) at an angle between 80 degrees and 100 degrees;
              (2)(a)(ii) with a minimum depth of:
                   (2)(a)(ii)(A) 10 feet below rail level for nonhorizontal directional drilling; or
                   (2)(a)(ii)(B) 15 feet below rail for horizontal directional drilling; and
              (2)(a)(iii) within a county that is not a county of the first class. See Utah Code 54-23-102
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decorative pole: means an authority pole:
         (14)(a) that is specially designed and placed for an aesthetic purpose; and
         (14)(b)
              (14)(b)(i) on which a nondiscriminatory rule or code prohibits an appurtenance or attachment, other than:
                   (14)(b)(i)(A) a small wireless facility;
                   (14)(b)(i)(B) a specialty designed informational or directional sign; or
                   (14)(b)(i)(C) a temporary holiday or special event attachment; or
              (14)(b)(ii) on which no appurtenance or attachment has been placed, other than:
                   (14)(b)(ii)(A) a small wireless facility;
                   (14)(b)(ii)(B) a specialty designed informational or directional sign; or
                   (14)(b)(ii)(C) a temporary holiday or special event attachment. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Department: means the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Design district: means an area:
         (15)(a) that is zoned or otherwise designated by municipal ordinance or code; and
         (15)(b) for which the authority maintains and enforces unique design and aesthetic standards on a uniform and nondiscriminatory basis. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Dispatchable: means available for use on demand and generally available to be delivered at a time and quantity of the operator's choosing. See Utah Code 54-17-102
  • Distribution electrical cooperative: includes an electrical corporation that:
         (8)(a) is a cooperative;
         (8)(b) conducts a business that includes the retail distribution of electricity the cooperative purchases or generates for the cooperative's members; and
         (8)(c) is required to allocate or distribute savings in excess of additions to reserves and surplus on the basis of patronage to the cooperative's:
              (8)(c)(i) members; or
              (8)(c)(ii) patrons. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Division: means the Division of Public Utilities created in Section 54-4a-1. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Electric cooperative: means an electrical corporation that is a:
         (1)(a) distribution electrical cooperative; or
         (1)(b) wholesale electrical cooperative. See Utah Code 54-24-102
  • Electrical power delivery quality: means the suitability of power delivered to customers as measured in comparison to accepted industry standards on voltage and power quality. See Utah Code 54-25-101
  • Electrical power delivery quality plan: means a plan submitted to the commission in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. See Utah Code 54-25-101
  • 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
  • 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 department appointed under Section 26B-1-203. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
  • 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.
  • Fee: means a one-time, nonrecurring charge. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Fiber optic carrier: means a telecommunications corporation or a telecommunications corporation's contractor or agent. See Utah Code 54-23-102
  • Fire claim: means any claim, whether based on negligence, nuisance, trespass, or any other claim for relief, brought by a non-governmental person against an electrical corporation in any civil action to recover for damage resulting from a fire event. See Utah Code 54-24-301
  • Fire event: means any unplanned or uncontrolled fire in the state alleged to have been caused by an electrical corporation. See Utah Code 54-24-301
  • 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.
  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Governing authority: means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-15-102. See Utah Code 54-24-102
  • Gross revenue: means the same as gross receipts from telecommunications service is defined in Section 10-1-402. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • High voltage power line: means :
         (4)(a) an electrical high voltage power line with a nominal voltage of 230 kilovolts or more; and
         (4)(b) an upgraded high voltage power line. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Highway: includes :
         (15)(a) a public bridge;
         (15)(b) a county way;
         (15)(c) a county road;
         (15)(d) a common road; and
         (15)(e) a state road. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Historic district: means a group of buildings, properties, or sites that are:
         (19)(a) in accordance with Utah Code 54-21-101
  • in writing: includes a communication or representation that is handwritten, typewritten, printed, photostated, photographed, or electronic. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Independent energy producer: means every electrical corporation, person, corporation, or government entity, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, that own, operate, control, or manage an independent power production or cogeneration facility. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Inflation: means the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the United States Department of Labor. See Utah Code 54-24-301
  • Initial opt-out period: means the period of time immediately after the community clean energy program's commencement, as established by the commission by rule made pursuant to Section 54-17-909, during which a participating customer may elect to leave the program without penalty. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Interconnection request: means a request from a utility-scale energy generation system to a qualified utility's transmission line. See Utah Code 54-25-101
  • 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
  • Large-scale electric utility: means a public utility that provides retail electric service to more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Large-scale natural gas utility: means a public utility that provides retail natural gas service to more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Local health department: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
  • Micro wireless facility: means a type of small wireless facility:
         (21)(a) that, not including any antenna, is no larger in dimension than 24 inches in length, 15 inches in width, and 12 inches in height;
         (21)(b) on which any exterior antenna is no longer than 11 inches; and
         (21)(c) that only provides Wi-Fi service. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Municipality: means a city or a town as defined in Section 10-1-104. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Nondiscriminatory: means treating similarly situated entities the same absent a reasonable, and competitively neutral basis, for different treatment. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • 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 Office of Consumer Services created in Section 54-10a-101. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Ongoing costs: means the costs allocated to the state for transmission and distribution facilities, retail services, and generation assets that are not replaced assets. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
  • Participating community: means a municipality or a county:
         (12)(a) whose residents are served by a qualified utility; and
         (12)(b) the municipality or county meets the requirements in Section 54-17-903. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Participating customer: means :
         (13)(a) a customer of a qualified utility located within the boundary of a municipality or county where a community clean energy program has been approved by the commission; and
         (13)(b) the customer has not exercised the right to not participate in the community clean energy program as provided in Section 54-17-905. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Permit: means a written authorization an authority requires for a wireless provider to perform an action or initiate, continue, or complete a project. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • 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
  • Pilot program period: means a period of five years during which the sustainable transportation and energy plan is effective:
         (2)(a) for a large-scale electric utility, beginning on January 1, 2017; or
         (2)(b) for a large-scale natural gas utility, beginning on July 1, 2019. See Utah Code 54-20-102
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • 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
  • Proposed corridor: means the transmission line route within a target study area selected by the public utility as the public utility's proposed alignment for a high voltage power line. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Proposed route: means the right-of-way needed for construction of the high voltage power line. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Proven dispatchable generation resource: means a significant energy resource that has demonstrated the capability to provide dispatchable energy. See Utah Code 54-17-102
  • Public utility: includes every railroad corporation, gas corporation, electrical corporation, distribution electrical cooperative, wholesale electrical cooperative, telephone corporation, telegraph corporation, water corporation, sewerage corporation, heat corporation, and independent energy producer not described in Section 54-2-201 where the service is performed for, or the commodity delivered to, the public generally, or in the case of a gas corporation or electrical corporation where the gas or electricity is sold or furnished to any member or consumers within the state for domestic, commercial, or industrial use. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Qualified utility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-17-801. See Utah Code 54-24-102
  • Qualified utility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-17-801. See Utah Code 54-25-101
  • Qualified utility: means an electric corporation that serves more than 200,000 retail customers in the state. See Utah Code 54-17-801
  • Qualified utility: means the same as that term is defined in Section 54-17-801. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Qualifying power producer: means a corporation, cooperative association, or person, or the lessee, trustee, and receiver of the corporation, cooperative association, or person, who owns, controls, operates, or manages any qualifying power production facility or cogeneration facility. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Railroad: includes every commercial, interurban, and other railway, other than a street railway, and each branch or extension of a railway, by any power operated, together with all tracks, bridges, trestles, rights-of-way, subways, tunnels, stations, depots, union depots, yards, grounds, terminals, terminal facilities, structures, and equipment, and all other real estate, fixtures, and personal property of every kind used in connection with a railway owned, controlled, operated, or managed for public service in the transportation of persons or property. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Rate: means a recurring charge. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Replaced asset: means an existing thermal energy resource:
         (15)(a) that was built or acquired, in whole or in part, by a qualified utility to serve the qualified utility's customers, including customers within a participating community;
         (15)(b) that was built or acquired prior to commission approval and the effective date of the community clean energy program; and
         (15)(c) to the extent the asset is no longer used to serve participating customers. See Utah Code 54-17-902
  • Right-of-way: means the area on, below, or above a public:
              (24)(a)(i) roadway;
              (24)(a)(ii) highway;
              (24)(a)(iii) street;
              (24)(a)(iv) sidewalk;
              (24)(a)(v) alley; or
              (24)(a)(vi) property similar to property listed in Subsections (24)(a)(i) through (v). See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • 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.
  • 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 wireless facility: means a type of wireless facility:
         (25)(a) on which each wireless provider's antenna could fit within an enclosure of no more than six cubic feet in volume; and
         (25)(b) for which all wireless equipment associated with the wireless facility, whether ground-mounted or pole-mounted, is cumulatively no more than 28 cubic feet in volume, not including any:
              (25)(b)(i) electric meter;
              (25)(b)(ii) concealment element;
              (25)(b)(iii) telecommunications demarcation box;
              (25)(b)(iv) grounding equipment;
              (25)(b)(v) power transfer switch;
              (25)(b)(vi) cut-off switch;
              (25)(b)(vii) vertical cable run for the connection of power or other service;
              (25)(b)(viii) wireless provider antenna; or
              (25)(b)(ix) coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is immediately adjacent to or directly associated with a particular collocation, unless the cable is a wireline backhaul facility. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Solicitation: means a request for proposals or other invitation for persons to submit a bid or proposal through an open bid process for construction or acquisition of a significant energy resource. See Utah Code 54-17-102
  • 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.
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Sustainable transportation and energy plan: means the programs approved by the commission and undertaken by a large-scale electric utility or large-scale natural gas utility during the pilot program period, including:
         (3)(a) a natural gas vehicle rate or natural gas clean air program described in Section Utah Code 54-20-102
  • Target study area: means the geographic area for a new high voltage transmission line or an upgraded high voltage power line as proposed by a public utility. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Technically feasible: means that by virtue of engineering or spectrum usage, the proposed placement for a small wireless facility, or the small wireless facility's design or site location, can be implemented without a significant reduction or impairment to the functionality of the small wireless facility. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • telecommunications facility: means fiber optics or related conduit installed in a crossing. See Utah Code 54-23-102
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Upgraded high voltage power line: means increasing the voltage of an existing transmission line to 230 kilovolts or more. See Utah Code 54-18-102
  • Utah fire fund: means a fund that may be created under this section by a large-scale electric utility to serve as a resource to supplement other forms of insurance to make eligible payments. See Utah Code 54-24-301
  • Utility pole: means a pole or similar structure that:
              (28)(a)(i) is in a right-of-way; and
              (28)(a)(ii) is or may be used, in whole or in part, for:
                   (28)(a)(ii)(A) wireline communications;
                   (28)(a)(ii)(B) electric distribution;
                   (28)(a)(ii)(C) lighting;
                   (28)(a)(ii)(D) traffic control;
                   (28)(a)(ii)(E) signage;
                   (28)(a)(ii)(F) a similar function to a function described in Subsections (28)(a)(ii)(A) through (E); or
                   (28)(a)(ii)(G) the collocation of a small wireless facility. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Utility-scale energy generation system: means an electric generation facility that has a generating capacity of more than two megawatts and is intermittent, non-dispatchable, or controlled by an inverter. See Utah Code 54-25-101
  • Wholesale electrical cooperative: includes every electrical corporation that is:
         (41)(a) in the business of the wholesale distribution of electricity it has purchased or generated to its members and the public; and
         (41)(b) required to distribute or allocate savings in excess of additions to reserves and surplus to members or patrons on the basis of patronage. See Utah Code 54-2-1
  • Wildland fire protection plan: means a plan submitted to the commission or governing authority in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. See Utah Code 54-24-102
  • Wireless facility: means equipment at a fixed location that enables wireless communication between user equipment and a communications network, including:
              (29)(a)(i) equipment associated with wireless communications; and
              (29)(a)(ii) regardless of the technological configuration, a radio transceiver, an antenna, a coaxial or fiber-optic cable, a regular or backup power supply, or comparable equipment. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Wireless infrastructure provider: includes a person authorized to provide a telecommunications service in the state. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Wireless provider: means a wireless infrastructure provider or a wireless service provider. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Wireless service: includes the use of Wi-Fi. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Wireless service provider: means a person who provides a wireless service. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Wireless support structure: means an existing or proposed structure that is:
              (34)(a)(i) in a right-of-way; and
              (34)(a)(ii) designed to support or capable of supporting a wireless facility, including a:
                   (34)(a)(ii)(A) monopole;
                   (34)(a)(ii)(B) tower, either guyed or self-supporting;
                   (34)(a)(ii)(C) billboard; or
                   (34)(a)(ii)(D) building. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • Wireline backhaul facility: means a facility used to transport communications by wire from a wireless facility to a communications network. See Utah Code 54-21-101
  • 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