§ 17B-2a-201 Title
§ 17B-2a-202 Definitions
§ 17B-2a-203 Provisions applicable to drainage districts
§ 17B-2a-204 Prohibition against creating a drainage district
§ 17B-2a-205 Additional drainage district powers
§ 17B-2a-206 Drainage district board of trustees
§ 17B-2a-207 Public highways, roads, or streets or railroad rights-of-way benefitted by district works
§ 17B-2a-208 Bridge or culvert across a public highway, road, or street, or a railroad right-of-way — Notice to railway authority — Option of railway authority to construct bridge or culvert
§ 17B-2a-209 State land treated the same as private land — Consent needed to affect school and institutional trust land — Owner of state land has same rights as owner of private land
§ 17B-2a-210 District required to minimize damage when entering on land — Penalty for preventing or prohibiting a district from entering on land
§ 17B-2a-211 Penalty for wrongfully damaging a district work

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 17B > Chapter 2a > Part 2 - Drainage District Act

  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • 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.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • County legislative body: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Ditch: includes a drain or natural or constructed watercourse, whether open, covered, or tiled, and whether inside or outside the drainage district. See Utah Code 17B-2a-202
  • Drainage: includes the reclamation, protection, or betterment of land by leading, carrying, withholding, or pumping excess water from land through canals, ditches, pipes, or other means. See Utah Code 17B-2a-202
  • Drainage district: means a special district that operates under and is subject to the provisions of this chapter and Chapter 2a, Part 2, Drainage District Act, including an entity that was created and operated as a drainage district under the law in effect before April 30, 2007. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
  • 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.
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Highway: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Interim committees: includes a commission, committee, council, task force, board, or panel, in which legislative participation is required by law, which committee functions between sessions of the Legislature. See Utah Code 36-12-1
  • Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, partnership, organization, association, trust, governmental agency, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Road: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Utah Code: means the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code, as amended, unless the text expressly references a portion of the 1953 recodification of the Utah Code as it existed:Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Works: includes a dam, reservoir, well, canal, conduit, pipeline, drain, tunnel, power plant, and any facility, improvement, or property necessary or convenient for supplying or treating water for any beneficial use, and for otherwise accomplishing the purposes of a special district. See Utah Code 17B-1-102
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5