Utah Code § 17D-1-301

Governance of a special service district -- Authority to create and delegate
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authority to an administrative control board -- Limitations on authority to delegate.
(1) Each special service district shall be governed by the legislative body of the county or
municipality that creates the special service district, subject to any delegation under this section
of a right, power, or authority to an administrative control board.
(2) At the time a special service district is created or at any time thereafter, the legislative body of a
county or municipality that creates a special service district may, by resolution or ordinance:
(a) create an administrative control board for the special service district;

(b) subject to Subsection (3), delegate to the administrative control board the exercise of any
right, power, or authority that the legislative body possesses with respect to the governance of
the special service district; and
(c) specify the members of the initial administrative control board by name or other designation
that clearly identifies each member of the initial administrative control board.
(3) A county or municipal legislative body may not delegate to an administrative control board of a
special service district the power to:
(a) annex an area to an existing special service district or add a service within the area of
an existing special service district under Part 4, Annexing a New Area and Adding a New
Service;
(b) designate, under Section 17D-1-107, the classes of special service district contracts that are
subject to Title 11, Chapter 39, Building Improvements and Public Works Projects;
(c) levy a tax on the taxable property within the special service district;
(d) issue special service district bonds payable from taxes;
(e) call or hold an election for the authorization of a property tax or the issuance of bonds;
(f) levy an assessment;
(g) issue interim warrants or bonds payable from an assessment; or
(h) appoint a board of equalization under Section 11-42-403.
(4)
(a) A county or municipal legislative body that has delegated a right, power, or authority under
this section to an administrative control board may at any time modify, limit, or revoke any
right, power, or authority delegated to the administrative control board.
(b) A modification, limitation, or revocation under Subsection (4)(a) does not affect the validity
of an action taken by an administrative control board before the modification, limitation, or
revocation.

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