Rep. Norm Thurston — Voting Record

Bill

Number

H.B. 157 First Substitute (2023GS)

Sponsor

Rep. Petersen, M.

Final action

Governor Signed 3/13/2023

Outcome

Became law — signed by Gov. Spencer J. Cox

Summary

What it does

• This bill:
• changes the deadline for a county legislative body to enact an ordinance that consolidates or separates county offices.

Every vote on this bill

Bill text

COUNTY OFFICE CONSOLIDATION AMENDMENTS
GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Michael J. Petersen
Senate Sponsor: 
David G. Buxton
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill amends the requirements for a county legislative body related to consolidation
or separation of county offices.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
▸ changes the deadline for a county legislative body to enact an ordinance that
consolidates or separates county offices.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
AMENDS:
17-16-3
, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2006, Chapter 3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 
17-16-3
 is amended to read:
17-16-3.
Consolidation of offices.
(1) A county legislative body may, unless prohibited by Subsection (2), pass an
ordinance that:
(a) consolidates county offices and establishes the duties of those consolidated offices;
(b) separates any previously consolidated offices and reconsolidates them; or
(c) separates any previously consolidated offices without reconsolidating them.
(2) A county legislative body may not:
(a) consolidate the offices of county commissioner, county council member, or county
treasurer with the office of county auditor;
(b) consolidate the office of county executive with the office of county auditor, unless a
referendum approving that consolidation passes; or
(c) consolidate the offices of county commissioner, county council member, county
executive, county assessor, or county auditor with the office of county treasurer.
(3) Each county legislative body shall ensure that any ordinance consolidating or
separating county offices:
(a) is enacted before the [
February
] 
November
of the year 
before the year
 in which
county officers are elected; and
(b) takes effect on the first Monday in January after the year in which county officers
are elected.
(4) (a) Each county legislative body shall:
(i) enact an ordinance by February 1, 2010, separating any county offices that are
prohibited from consolidation by this section; and
(ii) publish, by February 15, 2010, a notice once in a newspaper of general circulation
in the county identifying the county offices that will be filled in the November 2010 election.
(b) (i) If a county legislative body has, by February 1, 2006, enacted an ordinance, in
compliance with this Subsection (4) then in effect, separating county offices that are prohibited
from consolidation by this section, the county legislative body may repeal that ordinance.
(ii) If a county legislative body has published notice in a newspaper identifying the
county offices that will be filled in the November 2006 election, and that notice, because of a
repeal of an ordinance under Subsection (4)(b)(i), is incorrect, the county legislative body shall
publish notice once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county indicating that the
previous notice was incorrect and correctly identifying the county offices that will be filled in
the November 2006 election.