63G-6a-806.  Exception for public transit district contracting with a county or municipality.
     A public transit district, organized under 8, may, without going through a standard procurement process or another exception to a standard procurement process described in this part:

(1)  contract with a county or municipality to receive money from the county or municipality; and

Terms Used In Utah Code 63G-6a-806

  • Municipality: means a city, town, or metro township. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Procurement: means the acquisition of a procurement item through an expenditure of public funds, or an agreement to expend public funds, including an acquisition through a public-private partnership. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Public transit district: means a public transit district organized under 8. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Rulemaking authority: means :
(a) for a legislative procurement unit, the Legislative Management Committee;
(b) for a judicial procurement unit, the Judicial Council;
(c) 
(i) only to the extent of the procurement authority expressly granted to the procurement unit by statute:
(A) for the facilities division, the facilities division;
(B) for the Office of the Attorney General, the attorney general;
(C) for the Department of Transportation created in Section 72-1-201, the executive director of the Department of Transportation; and
(D) for any other executive branch department, division, office, or entity that has statutory procurement authority outside this chapter, the governing authority of the department, division, office, or entity; and
(ii) for each other executive branch procurement unit, the board;
(d) for a local government procurement unit:
(i) the governing body of the local government unit; or
(ii) an individual or body designated by the local government procurement unit;
(e) for a school district or a public school, the board, except to the extent of a school district's own nonadministrative rules that do not conflict with the provisions of this chapter;
(f) for a state institution of higher education, the Utah Board of Higher Education;
(g) for the State Board of Education or the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, the State Board of Education;
(h) for a public transit district, the chief executive of the public transit district;
(i) for a special district other than a public transit district or for a special service district, the board, except to the extent that the board of trustees of the special district or the governing body of the special service district makes its own rules:
(i) with respect to a subject addressed by board rules; or
(ii) that are in addition to board rules;
(j) for the Utah Educational Savings Plan, created in Section 53B-8a-103, the Utah Board of Higher Education;
(k) for the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, created in Section 53C-1-201, the School and Institutional Trust Lands Board of Trustees;
(l) for the School and Institutional Trust Fund Office, created in Section 53D-1-201, the School and Institutional Trust Fund Board of Trustees;
(m) for the Utah Communications Authority, established in Section 63H-7a-201, the Utah Communications Authority board, created in Section 63H-7a-203; or
(n) for any other procurement unit, the board. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
  • Standard procurement process: means :
    (a) the bidding process;
    (b) the request for proposals process;
    (c) the approved vendor list process;
    (d) the small purchase process; or
    (e) the design professional procurement process. See Utah Code 63G-6a-103
    (2)  use the money described in Subsection (1) to fund a transportation project or a transit-related program in accordance with rules made by the rulemaking authority.

    Amended by Chapter 257, 2020 General Session