17D-1-301 - Governance of a special service district -- Authority to create and delegate authority to an administrative control board -- Limitations on authority to delegate.
17D-1-301. Governance of a special service district -- Authority to create anddelegate authority to an administrative control board -- Limitations on authority todelegate.
(1) Each special service district shall be governed by the legislative body of the county ormunicipality that creates the special service district, subject to any delegation under this sectionof 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 legislativebody of a county or municipality that creates a special service district may, by resolution orordinance:
(a) create an administrative control board for the special service district; and
(b) subject to Subsection (3), delegate to the administrative control board the exercise ofany right, power, or authority that the legislative body possesses with respect to the governanceof the special service district.
(3) A county or municipal legislative body may not delegate to an administrative controlboard 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 ofan existing special service district under Part 4, Annexing a New Area and Adding a NewService;
(b) designate, under Section 17D-1-107, the classes of special service district contractsthat 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 ofbonds;
(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, orauthority under this section to an administrative control board may at any time modify, limit, orrevoke any right, power, or authority delegated to the administrative control board.
(b) A modification, limitation, or revocation under Subsection (4)(a) does not affect thevalidity of an action taken by an administrative control board before the modification, limitation,or revocation.
Amended by Chapter 356, 2009 General Session