17-27a-1001.  Definitions.
     As used in this part:

(1)  “Critical infrastructure materials” means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.

Terms Used In Utah Code 17-27a-1001

  • Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • 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.
  • Critical infrastructure materials: means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001
  • Critical infrastructure materials operations: means the extraction, excavation, processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Nonconforming use: means a use of land that:
(a) legally existed before the current land use designation;
(b) has been maintained continuously since the time the land use ordinance regulation governing the land changed; and
(c) because of one or more subsequent land use ordinance changes, does not conform to the regulations that now govern the use of the land. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • 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 17-27a-103
  • Subdivision: includes :
    (i) the division or development of land, whether by deed, metes and bounds description, devise and testacy, map, plat, or other recorded instrument, regardless of whether the division includes all or a portion of a parcel or lot; and
    (ii) except as provided in Subsection (70)(c), divisions of land for residential and nonresidential uses, including land used or to be used for commercial, agricultural, and industrial purposes. See Utah Code 17-27a-103
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • (2)  “Critical infrastructure materials operations” means the extraction, excavation, processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.

    (3)  “Critical infrastructure materials operator” means a natural person, corporation, association, partnership, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, agent, or other organization or representative, either public or private, including a successor, assign, affiliate, subsidiary, and related parent company, that:

    (a)  owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials operations; and

    (b)  has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the critical infrastructure materials operations.

    (4)  “Vested critical infrastructure materials operations” means critical infrastructure materials operations operating in accordance with a legal nonconforming use or a permit issued by the county that existed or was conducted or otherwise engaged in before:

    (a)  a political subdivision prohibits, restricts, or otherwise limits the critical infrastructure materials operations; and

    (b)  January 1, 2019.

    Enacted by Chapter 227, 2019 General Session