Utah Code
Title 17 - Counties

Chapter 2 - County Consolidations and Annexations

Part 1 - Consolidation of Counties -

Part 2 - County Annexation -

Chapter 3 - Creating New Counties -

Chapter 8 - Flood Control Projects and Drought Emergencies -

Chapter 11 - Removal of County Seats -

Chapter 12 - Creating Bonded Indebtedness -

Chapter 14 - Support of Poor by Relatives -

Chapter 15 - Miscellaneous Provisions -

Chapter 16 - County Officers

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Personal Use Expenditure -

Chapter 16a - County Officers and Employees Disclosure Act -

Chapter 17 - County Assessor -

Chapter 18a - Powers and Duties of County and District Attorney

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Duties -

Part 3 - Qualifications and Term -

Part 4 - Public Prosecutor Duties -

Part 5 - Counsel for Civil Actions -

Part 6 - General Duties and Prohibitions -

Part 7 - Prosecution District -

Part 8 - Ethical Responsibilities -

Chapter 19a - County Auditor

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Powers and Duties -

Part 3 - Payments and Warrants -

Part 4 - Investigations -

Chapter 20 - County Clerk -

Chapter 21 - Recorder -

Chapter 21a - Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Electronic Documents -

Part 4 - Relationship to Other Laws -

Chapter 22 - Sheriff -

Chapter 23 - County Surveyor -

Chapter 24 - County Treasurer -

Chapter 25 - Powers and Duties of Constables -

Chapter 25a - Appointment and Authority of Constables -

Chapter 26 - County Hospitals -

Chapter 27a - County Land Use, Development, and Management Act

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Notice -

Part 3 - General Land Use Provisions -

Part 4 - General Plan -

Part 5 - Land Use Regulations -

Part 6 - Subdivisions -

Part 7 - Appeal Authority and Variances -

Part 8 - District Court Review -

Part 9 - Mountainous Planning District -

Part 10 - Vested Critical Infrastructure Materials Operations -

Part 11 - Large Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Act -

Chapter 28 - Firemen's Civil Service Commission -

Chapter 30 - Deputy Sheriffs - Merit System -

Chapter 30a - Peace Officer Merit System in Counties of the First Class Act

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Merit System Commission Powers and Duties -

Part 3 - Merit Officer Conditions of Employment -

Part 4 - Disciplinary Actions and Appeals -

Part 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions -

Chapter 31 - Recreational, Tourist, and Convention Bureaus

Section 2 - Purposes of transient room tax and expenditure of revenue -- Purchase or lease of facilities -- Mitigating impacts of recreation, tourism, or conventions -- Issuance of bonds. - Affected by 63I-1-217 on 7/1/2026

Section 5.5 - Report by county legislative body -- Content. - Affected by 63I-1-217 on 7/1/2026

Chapter 32 - Bail Commissioners -

Chapter 33 - County Personnel Management Act -

Chapter 34 - Municipal-Type Services to Unincorporated Areas -

Chapter 36 - Uniform Fiscal Procedures Act for Counties -

Chapter 37 - Planetarium -

Chapter 38 - Zoos -

Chapter 41 - Agriculture, Industrial, or Critical Infrastructure Materials Protection Areas

Part 1 - Definitions -

Part 2 - Advisory Boards -

Part 3 - Proposal and Approval of Protection Area -

Part 4 - Protection of Land in a Protection Area -

Part 5 - Vested Mining Use -

Chapter 43 - Local Human Services Act

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Local Substance Abuse Authorities -

Part 3 - Local Mental Health Authorities -

Chapter 50 - General Provisions for Counties

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 3 - County Powers -

Part 4 - Claims Against the County -

Part 5 - Classification -

Chapter 52a - Changing Forms of County Government

Part 1 - General Provisions

Section 103 - Forms of county government -- County commission form required unless another is adopted -- Restrictions on form of county government. - Affected by 63I-2-217 on 1/1/2028

Part 2 - Forms of County Government -

Part 3 - Procedure for Initiating Adoption of Optional Plan -

Part 4 - Study Committee and Optional Plan -

Part 5 - Adoption and Implementation of Optional Plan

Section 501 - Election on recommended optional plan. - Affected by 63I-2-217 on 6/1/2020

Chapter 53 - County Executive, Legislative Body, and Other Officers

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - County Legislative Body -

Part 3 - County Executive -

Chapter 55 - Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils

Part 1 - General Provisions -

Part 2 - Criminal Justice Coordinating Councils -