17E-7 - Counties and Other Executive Branch Entities

Title 17E > 17E-7

Sections (4)

Department of Environmental Quality

17E-7-101 - County solid waste management plans submitted to the Waste Management and Radiation Control Board.

17E-7-101(1) Each county, or entity created or designated by a county for the purpose of fulfilling the duties of this section, shall submit to the Waste Management and Radiation Control Board, created in Section 19-6-103, a county solid waste management plan providing solid waste management information as reasonably required by the board and according to a timetable established by the board.Each county shall review and modify the county solid waste management plan no less frequently than every five years. 17E-7-101(2) Each county solid waste management plan shall: be consistent with Title 19, Chapter 6, Part 5, Solid Waste Management Act; and establish the county’s solid waste management plan for the next 20 years. 17E-7-101(3) Each county solid waste management plan shall include an estimate of the solid waste capacity needed in the county for the next 20 years and the county’s program to ensure that the county will have sufficient solid waste disposal capacity for the next 20 years. 17E-7-101(4) The solid waste management plan mandated by this section is contingent upon the adoption and implementation of a funding mechanism. Nothing contained in this section precludes a political subdivision, local health department, or district from undertaking comprehensive solid waste planning.

Department of Health and Human Services

17E-7-201 - Licensing of residences for persons with a disability.

17E-7-201(1) As used in this section, “residential facility for persons with a disability” means the same as that term is defined in Section 17-79-102. 17E-7-201(2) The responsibility to license local programs or entities that operate a residential facility for persons with a disability, as well as to require and monitor the provision of adequate services to persons residing in those facilities, shall rest with the Department of Health and Human Services as provided in:Title 26B, Chapter 2, Part 2, Health Care Facility Licensing and Inspection; andTitle 26B, Chapter 6, Part 4, Division of Services for People with Disabilities.

Department of Veterans and Military Affairs

17E-7-301 - Department of Veterans and Military Affairs and land use planning.

71A-1-201 shall comply with the provisions of Section 17-79-616 .

Department of Natural Resources

17E-7-401 - Wildland urban interface evaluation and fees.

17E-7-401(1) As used in this section:“County officer” means the same as that term is defined in Section 17-66-101.”High risk wildland urban interface property” means the same as that term is defined in Section 65A-8-401.”Wildland urban interface” means the same as that term is defined in Section 65A-8-401.”Wildland urban interface coordinator” means the same as that term is defined in Section 65A-8-401. 17E-7-401(2) If evaluation of high risk wildland urban interface property is assigned to a county under Section 65A-8-402:the county shall enter into a cooperative agreement with the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands, in accordance with Subsection 65A-8-203(2)(a), which agreement shall address compliance with this Subsection (2) for evaluation and classification of high risk wildland urban interface property; anda county officer shall require that a wildland urban interface coordinator representing the county annually evaluate high risk wildland urban interface property within the county in accordance with Section 65A-8-402. 17E-7-401(3) Beginning January 1, 2026, a county officer shall:annually assess a fee:against the property owner of high risk wildland urban interface property within the incorporated and unincorporated portions of the county; andin the amount set by the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands under Section 65A-8-402; andafter retaining a portion of the fee under Subsection (3)(b)(ii), transmit the fee assessed under Subsection (3)(a) to the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands for deposit into the Utah Wildfire Fund created in Section 65A-8-217; andretain that portion of the fee assessed under Subsection (3)(a) necessary to pay costs incurred by the county in implementing this section, which the county may include in the county’s annual accounting of wildfire prevention, preparedness, mitigation actions, and associated costs for purposes of Subsection 65A-8-203(4)(c). 17E-7-401(4) A county may hold a political subdivision lien on high risk wildland urban interface property for a fee that is past due by following the procedures in Sections 17B-1-902 and 17B-1-902.1, as if the county is a special district.