{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-10-2a-501","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 10-2a-501","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this part:\n(1) \"Affordable housing\" means housing occupied or reserved for occupancy by households with a gross household income equal to or less than 80% of the median gross income of the applicable municipal or county statistical area for households of the same size.\n(2) \"Board,\" in relation to a preliminary municipality, means the same as a council described in Section 10-3b-402.\n(3) \"Board chair,\" in relation to a preliminary municipality, means the same as a mayor described in Section 10-3b-402.\n(4) \"Contiguous\" means the same as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-102.\n(5) \"Feasibility consultant\" means a person or firm:\n(a) with expertise in the processes and economics of local government; and\n(b) who is independent of, and not affiliated with, a county or a sponsor of a petition to incorporate a preliminary municipality under this part.\n(6) \"Feasibility request\" means a request, described in Section 10-2a-502, for a feasibility study for the proposed incorporation of a preliminary municipality.\n(7) \"Initial landowners\" means the persons who owned the land within the proposed preliminary municipality area when the person filed the feasibility request under Section 20A-1-501.\n(8) \"Municipal service\" means the same as that term is defined in Section 10-2a-102.\n(9) \"Pending annexation area\" means an area proposed for annexation in an annexation petition described in Section 10-2-806 that is filed before, and is still pending when, a person files the applicable request for a feasibility study under Section 10-2a-502.\n(10) \"Primary sponsor contact\" means:\n(a) in relation to a feasibility request:\n(i) the individual designated as the primary sponsor contact for a feasibility request under Subsection 10-2a-502(5)(c); or\n(ii) an individual designated, in writing, by the initial landowners if a replacement primary sponsor contact is needed; or\n(b) in relation to a petition for incorporation of a preliminary municipality:\n(i) the individual designated as the primary sponsor contact for a petition for incorporation of a preliminary municipality under Subsection 10-2a-507(1)(d); or\n(ii) an individual designated, in writing, by the initial landowners if a replacement primary sponsor contact is needed.\n(11) \"Private,\" in relation to real property, means taxable real property.\n(12) \"Proposed preliminary municipality area\" means the area proposed for incorporation as a preliminary municipality in a feasibility request.\n(13) \"System infrastructure\" means, as shown on the map or plat described in Subsection 10-2a-502(5)(e) for the proposed preliminary municipal area:\n(a) the main thoroughfares within the proposed preliminary municipal area, including the roads that connect the proposed preliminary municipality area to an existing road outside the proposed preliminary municipality area; and\n(b) the main lines that will connect a utility to the proposed preliminary municipality area, including the stubs that will connect the main lines to the development in the proposed preliminary municipality area.","path":["Title 10 Utah Municipal Code","Chapter 10-2a Municipal Incorporation","Part 10-2a-5 Incorporation of a Preliminary Municipality"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title10/Chapter2a/10-2a-S501.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"7b1e9187f14757a42a1fdc6b9f94769e010be0b7c87bfafd774a10f568926d3a","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-10-2a-220","next":"us-ut/utah-code-10-2a-502"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}