11-59-201.  Creation of Point of the Mountain State Land Authority — Status and duties of authority.

(1)  There is created the Point of the Mountain State Land Authority.

Terms Used In Utah Code 11-59-201

  • Authority: means the Point of the Mountain State Land Authority, created in Section 11-59-201. See Utah Code 11-59-102
  • 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.
  • Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • New correctional facility: means the state correctional facility being developed in Salt Lake City to replace the state correctional facility in Draper. See Utah Code 11-59-102
  • Point of the mountain state land: means the approximately 700 acres of state-owned land in Draper, including land used for the operation of a state correctional facility until completion of the new correctional facility and state-owned land in the vicinity of the current state correctional facility. See Utah Code 11-59-102
  • 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
(2)  The authority is:

(a)  an independent, nonprofit, separate body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, whose purpose is to facilitate the development of state land;

(b)  a political subdivision of the state; and

(c)  a public corporation, as defined in Section 63E-1-102.

(3)  Subject to Subsection 11-59-103(3), the authority shall manage the point of the mountain state land and shall plan, manage, and implement the development of the point of the mountain state land:

(a)  beginning May 8, 2018;

(b)  during the transition period as prison operations on the point of the mountain state land continue and eventually wind down in anticipation of the relocation of prison operations to the new correctional facility; and

(c)  upon and after the transfer of prison operations to the new correctional facility.

Enacted by Chapter 388, 2018 General Session

Technically renumbered for proper placement.