Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 13 > Chapter 49 > Part 1 - General Provisions

• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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
• 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. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001 Department: means the Department of Commerce. See Utah Code 13-49-102 Division: means the Division of Consumer Protection in the department. See Utah Code 13-49-102 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. Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator. General plan: means a document that a county adopts that sets forth general guidelines for proposed future development of: (a)  the unincorporated land within the county; or (b)  for a mountainous planning district, the land within the mountainous planning district. See Utah Code 17-27a-103 Immigration consultant: means an individual who provides nonlegal assistance or advice on an immigration matter including: (a)  completing a document provided by a federal or state agency, but not advising a person as to the person's answers on the document; (b)  translating a person's answer to a question posed in a document provided by a federal or state agency; (c)  securing for a person supporting documents, such as a birth certificate, that may be necessary to complete a document provided by a federal or state agency; (d)  submitting a completed document on a person's behalf and at the person's request to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services; or (e)  for valuable consideration, referring a person to a person who could undertake legal representation activities in an immigration matter. See Utah Code 13-49-102 Immigration matter: means a proceeding, filing, or action affecting the immigration or citizenship status of a person that arises under: (a)  immigration and naturalization law; (b)  executive order or presidential proclamation; or (c)  action of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the United States Department of State, or the United States Department of Labor. See Utah Code 13-49-102 Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 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 Legislative body: means the county legislative body, or for a county that has adopted an alternative form of government, the body exercising legislative powers. See Utah Code 17-27a-103 Mountainous planning district: means an area designated by a county legislative body in accordance with Section 17-27a-901. See Utah Code 17-27a-103 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 Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Plat: means an instrument subdividing property into lots as depicted on a map or other graphical representation of lands that a licensed professional land surveyor makes and prepares in accordance with Section 17-27a-603 or 57-8-13. See Utah Code 17-27a-103 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 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. Unincorporated: means the area outside of the incorporated area of a municipality. See Utah Code 17-27a-103 United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 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. See Utah Code 17-27a-1001