(1)  Except as provided in Subsection (2), the fiscal period for each county shall be an annual period beginning on January 1 of each year and ending December 31 of the same calendar year.

Terms Used In Utah Code 17-36-3.5

  • Budget: means a plan for financial operations for a fiscal period, embodying estimates for proposed expenditures for given purposes and the means of financing the expenditures. See Utah Code 17-36-3
  • Budget period: means the fiscal period for which a budget is prepared. See Utah Code 17-36-3
  • Fiscal period: means the annual or biennial period for recording county fiscal operations. See Utah Code 17-36-3
  • Legislative: when used to describe the powers, duties, or functions of a county commission or council, refers to:
(a) the power and duty to enact ordinances, levy taxes, and establish budgets; and
(b) those powers, duties, and functions that, under constitutional and statutory provisions and through long usage and accepted practice and custom at the federal and state level, have come to be regarded as belonging to the legislative branch of government. See Utah Code 17-50-101
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • 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) 

    (a)  Notwithstanding Subsection (1), the legislative body of a county may, by ordinance, adopt for the county a fiscal period that is a biennial period beginning January 1 and ending December 31 of the following calendar year.

    (b)  Each county adopting an ordinance under Subsection (2)(a) shall separately specify in its budget the amount of ad valorem property tax it intends to levy and collect during both the first half and the second half of the budget period.

    (c)  Each county that adopts a fiscal period that is a biennial period under Subsection (2)(a) shall:

    (i)  comply with Sections 59-2-912 through 59-2-926 as if it had adopted a fiscal period that is an annual period; and

    (ii)  allocate budgeted revenues and expenditures to each of the two annual periods in the biennial budget.

    (d)  The legislative body of each county that adopts a fiscal period that is a biennial period under Subsection (2)(a) shall, within 10 days after the adoption of the ordinance adopting the biennial period, deliver a copy of the ordinance to the state auditor.

    Enacted by Chapter 300, 1999 General Session

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