Terms Used In Utah Code 10-15-5

  • Gift: A voluntary transfer or conveyance of property without consideration, or for less than full and adequate consideration based on fair market value.
  • Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Legislative body: means the legislative body of the municipality. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Municipality: includes every city or town within this state. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Pedestrian mall: means one or more streets or portions thereof, on which vehicular traffic is, or is to be, restricted in whole or in part and which is, or is to be, used exclusively or primarily for pedestrian travel. See Utah Code 10-15-3
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Street: means any public road, street, highway, alley, lane, court, way, or place of any nature open to the use of the public, excluding state highways. See Utah Code 10-15-3
     The legislative body of the municipalities shall also have the power to acquire by gift, purchase, eminent domain, or otherwise, land, real property or rights of way which shall become part of the municipal street established as a pedestrian mall, or which shall otherwise be used by the municipality as a part of, or for purposes connected with, a pedestrian mall, and such lands, real property or rights of way may be improved in the same manner as municipal streets may be improved. The legislative body shall also have the power to make such improvements on mall intersections and intersecting streets or upon facilities acquired for parking and other related purposes where such improvements are necessary or convenient to the operation of the mall. The acquisitions and improvements authorized by this section shall be deemed “improvements.”

Enacted by Chapter 2, 1966 Special Session 2
Enacted by Chapter 2, 1966 Special Session 2