{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-10-20-701","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 10-20-701","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part:\n(1) \"Commercial quantities,\" for purposes of this section, means critical infrastructure materials:\n(a) extracted or processed by a commercial enterprise in the ordinary course of business; and\n(b) in a sufficient amount that the critical infrastructure materials introduction into commerce would create a reasonable expectation of profit.\n(2) \"Contiguous land\" means surface or subsurface land that shares a common boundary and is not separated by a highway as defined in Section 41-6a-102.\n(3) \"Critical infrastructure materials\" means sand, gravel, or rock aggregate.\n(4) \"Critical infrastructure materials use\" means the extraction, excavation, processing, or reprocessing of critical infrastructure materials.\n(5) \"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:\n(a) owns, controls, or manages a critical infrastructure materials use; and\n(b) has produced commercial quantities of critical infrastructure materials from the critical infrastructure materials use.\n(6) \"Existing legal use\" means a critical infrastructure materials use that has operated in accordance with:\n(a) a legal nonconforming use that has not been abandoned for more than 24 consecutive months; or\n(b) a permit issued by the applicable political subdivision.\n(7) \"New land\" means surface or subsurface land that a critical infrastructure materials operator gains ownership or control of on or before January 1, 2026, regardless of whether that land is included in any applicable permit issued by a political subdivision or a legal nonconforming use.\n(8) \"Vested critical infrastructure materials use\" means a critical infrastructure materials use by a critical infrastructure materials operator that is an existing legal use.","path":["Title 10 Utah Municipal Code","Chapter 10-20 Municipal Land Use, Development, and Management Act","Part 10-20-7 Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title10/Chapter20/10-20-S701.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"623dd62b396ca2d6cfaa0ada7f3f7486295705ca9ac9f7e0a500f3f088848fa5","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-10-20-626","next":"us-ut/utah-code-10-20-702"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}