{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-10-2-801","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 10-2-801","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part:\n(1) \"Affected area\" means an annexed area or area proposed for annexation.\n(2) \"Affected entity\" means:\n(a) a county of the first or second class in whose unincorporated area the area proposed for annexation is located;\n(b) a county of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class in whose unincorporated area the area proposed for annexation is located, if the area includes residents or commercial or industrial development;\n(c) a special district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Special Districts, or special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act, whose boundary includes any part of an area proposed for annexation;\n(d) a school district whose boundary includes any part of an area proposed for annexation, if the boundary is proposed to be adjusted as a result of the annexation; and\n(e) a municipality whose boundaries are within 1/2 mile of an area proposed for annexation.\n(3) \"Annexation action\" means:\n(a) the enactment of an ordinance annexing an unincorporated area;\n(b) the enactment of an ordinance approving a boundary adjustment by each of the municipalities involved in the boundary adjustment; or\n(c) an automatic annexation that occurs on July 1, 2027, under Subsection 10-2-814(5).\n(4) \"Annexation petition\" means a petition under Section 10-2-806 proposing the annexation to a municipality of a contiguous, unincorporated area that is contiguous to the municipality.\n(5) \"Annexing municipality\" means:\n(a) the municipality that annexes an unincorporated area; or\n(b) the municipality to which an unincorporated island is automatically annexed under Section 10-2-814.\n(6) \"Applicable legislative body\" means:\n(a) the legislative body of each municipality that enacts an ordinance under this part approving the annexation of an unincorporated area or the adjustment of a boundary; or\n(b) the legislative body of a municipality to which an unincorporated island is automatically annexed under Section 10-2-814.\n(7) \"Expansion area\" means the unincorporated area that is identified in an annexation policy plan under Section 10-2-803 as the area that the municipality anticipates annexing in the future.\n(8) \"Feasibility consultant\" means a person or firm with expertise in the processes and economics of local government.\n(9) \"Mining protection area\" means the same as that term is defined in Section 17-41-101.\n(10) \"Municipal records officer\" means a:\n(a) city recorder; or\n(b) town clerk.\n(11) \"Municipal selection committee\" means a committee in each county composed of the mayor of each municipality within that county.\n(12) \"Owner of real property\" means:\n(a) the record title owner according to the records of the county recorder on the date of the filing of the petition or protest; or\n(b) the lessee of military land, as defined in Section 63H-1-102, if the area proposed for annexation includes military land that is within a project area described in a project area plan adopted by the military installation development authority under Title 63H, Chapter 1, Military Installation Development Authority Act.\n(13) \"Private,\" with respect to real property, means not owned by:\n(a) the United States or any agency of the federal government;\n(b) the state;\n(c) a county;\n(d) a municipality;\n(e) a school district;\n(f) a special district under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Special Districts;\n(g) a special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act; or\n(h) any other political subdivision or governmental entity of the state.\n(14)\n(a) \"Rural real property\" means a group of contiguous tax parcels, or a single tax parcel, that:\n(i) are under common ownership;\n(ii) consist of no less than 1,000 total acres;\n(iii) are zoned for manufacturing or agricultural purposes; and\n(iv) do not have a residential unit density greater than one unit per acre.\n(b) \"Rural real property\" includes any portion of private real property, if the private real property:\n(i) qualifies as rural real property under Subsection (14)(a); and\n(ii) consists of more than 1,500 total acres.\n(15) \"Specified county\" means a county of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class.\n(16) \"Unincorporated peninsula\" means an unincorporated area:\n(a) that is part of a larger unincorporated area;\n(b) that extends from the rest of the unincorporated area of which it is a part;\n(c) that is surrounded by land that is within a municipality, except where the area connects to and extends from the rest of the unincorporated area of which it is a part; and\n(d) whose width, at any point where a straight line may be drawn from a place where it borders a municipality to another place where it borders a municipality, is no more than 25% of the boundary of the area where it borders a municipality.\n(17) \"Urban development\" means:\n(a) a housing development with more than 15 residential units and an average density greater than one residential unit per acre; or\n(b) a commercial or industrial development for which cost projections exceed $750,000 for all phases.","path":["Title 10 Utah Municipal Code","Chapter 10-2 Classification, Boundaries, Consolidation, and Dissolution of Municipalities","Part 10-2-8 Annexation"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title10/Chapter2/10-2-S801.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"1513415d7d56604046600787a1b435708084dde8086626de2f17c58e31b66f2b","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-10-2-712","next":"us-ut/utah-code-10-2-802"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}