Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 10 > Chapter 1 > Part 1 - Short Title, Definitions, Repealer, and Scope of Code

• Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Appraisal: A determination of property value.
• Authority: means the Utah Inland Port Authority, created in Section 11-58-201. See Utah Code 11-58-102
• Authority jurisdictional land: means land within the authority boundary delineated:

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  in the electronic shapefile that is the electronic component of H. See Utah Code 11-58-102 Budget: means a plan of financial operations for a fiscal period which embodies estimates of proposed expenditures for given purposes and the proposed means of financing them. See Utah Code 10-6-106 City: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed. 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. Development: means : (a)  the demolition, construction, reconstruction, modification, expansion, or improvement of a building, utility, infrastructure, landscape, parking lot, park, trail, recreational amenity, or other facility, including public infrastructure and improvements; and (b)  the planning of, arranging for, or participation in any of the activities listed in Subsection (7)(a). See Utah Code 11-58-102 Employee: means a person who is not an elected or appointed officer and who is employed on a full- or part-time basis by a political subdivision. See Utah Code 11-57-102 Enclosed mobile business: means a business that maintains ongoing mobility and of which the receipt of goods or services offered and point of sales occurs within an enclosed vehicle, an enclosed trailer, or an enclosed mobile structure. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts Event permit: means a permit that a political subdivision issues to the organizer of a mobile business event located on public property. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other. Financial officer: means the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government or the city official as authorized by Section 10-6-158. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Fiscal period: means the annual or biennial period for accounting for fiscal operations in each city. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006. Food cart: means a cart: (i)  that is not motorized; and (ii)  that a vendor, standing outside the frame of the cart, uses to prepare, sell, or serve food or beverages for immediate human consumption. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Food truck: means a fully encased food service establishment: (i)  on a motor vehicle or on a trailer that a motor vehicle pulls to transport; and (ii)  from which a food truck vendor, standing within the frame of the vehicle, prepares, cooks, sells, or serves food or beverages for immediate human consumption. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Governing body: means a city council, or city commission, as the case may be, but the authority to make any appointment to any position created by this chapter is vested in the mayor in the council-mayor optional form of government. See Utah Code 10-6-106 Governing body: means collectively the legislative body and the executive of any municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Health department permit: means a document that a local health department issues to authorize a mobile business to operate within the jurisdiction of the local health department. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Ice cream truck: means a fully encased food service establishment: (i)  on a motor vehicle or on a trailer that a motor vehicle pulls to transport; (ii)  from which a vendor, from within the frame of the vehicle, serves ice cream; (iii)  that attracts patrons by traveling through a residential area and signaling the truck's presence in the area, including by playing music; and (iv)  that may stop to serve ice cream at the signal of a patron. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases. Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC Local health department: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Mobile business: means an enclosed mobile business, a food cart, a food truck, or an ice cream truck. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Mobile business event: means an event at which a mobile business has been invited by the event organizer to offer the mobile business's goods or services at a private or public gathering. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Municipal: means of or relating to a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Municipality: means : (a)  a city of the first class, city of the second class, city of the third class, city of the fourth class, city of the fifth class; (b)  a town, as classified in Section 10-2-301; or (c)  a metro township as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-403 unless the term is used in the context of authorizing, governing, or otherwise regulating the provision of municipal services. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period. Officer: means a person who is elected or appointed to an office or position within a political subdivision. See Utah Code 11-57-102 Operator: means a person, including a vendor, who owns, manages, controls, or operates a mobile business. See Utah Code 11-56-102 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 :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Personal use expenditure: means an expenditure made without the authority of law that: (i)  is not directly related to the performance of an activity as an officer or employee of a political subdivision; (ii)  primarily furthers a personal interest of an officer or employee of a political subdivision or the family, a friend, or an associate of an officer or employee of a political subdivision; and (iii)  would constitute taxable income under federal law. See Utah Code 11-57-102 Political subdivision: means : (a)  a city, town, or metro township; or (b)  a county, as it relates to the licensing and regulation of businesses in the unincorporated area of the county. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Political subdivision: means any county, city, town, school district, community reinvestment agency, special improvement or taxing district, special district, special service district, entity created by an interlocal agreement adopted under Title 11, Chapter 13, Interlocal Cooperation Act, or other governmental subdivision or public corporation. See Utah Code 11-57-102 Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Project area: means : (a)  the authority jurisdictional land, subject to Section 11-58-605; or (b)  land outside the authority jurisdictional land, whether consisting of a single contiguous area or multiple noncontiguous areas, described in a project area plan or draft project area plan, where the development project set forth in the project area plan or draft project area plan takes place or is proposed to take place. See Utah Code 11-58-102 Project area plan: means a written plan that, after its effective date, guides and controls the development within a project area. See Utah Code 11-58-102 Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Property tax: includes a privilege tax and each levy on an ad valorem basis on tangible or intangible personal or real property. See Utah Code 11-58-102 Public funds: means the same as that term is defined in Section 51-7-3. See Utah Code 11-57-102 real property: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land. Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant. Remediation: includes : (a)  activities for the cleanup, rehabilitation, and development of contaminated land; and (b)  acquiring an interest in land within a remediation project area. See Utah Code 11-58-102 Remediation project: means a project for the remediation of contaminated land that: (a)  is owned by: (i)  the state or a department, division, or other instrumentality of the state; (ii)  an independent entity, as defined in Section 63E-1-102; or (iii)  a political subdivision of the state; and (b)  became contaminated land before the owner described in Subsection (24)(a) obtained ownership of the land. See Utah Code 11-58-102 Remediation project area: means a project area consisting of contaminated land that is or is expected to become the subject of a remediation project. See Utah Code 11-58-102 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 Statute: A law passed by a legislature. Temporary mass gathering: means : (i)  an actual or reasonably anticipated assembly of 500 or more people that continues, or reasonably can be expected to continue, for two or more hours per day; or (ii)  an event that requires a more extensive review to protect public health and safety because the event's nature or conditions have the potential of generating environmental or health risks. See Utah Code 11-56-102 Town: includes , depending on population, a metro township as defined in Section 10-3c-102. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Town: means a municipality classified by population as a town under Section 10-2-301. See Utah Code 10-1-104 Unincorporated: means not within a municipality. See Utah Code 10-1-104 United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Utility: means a utility owned by a city, in whole or in part, that provides electricity, gas, water, or sewer, or any combination of them. See Utah Code 10-6-106