By Myrna Trauntvein
Times-News Correspondent
Juab County Commissioners voted in favor of adopting two
ordinances allowing the county to adopt county ordinances in
book form.
Enactment of the one ordinance repeals the old
ordinances, now in force in the county, on March 14 at 11:59
p.m. and replaces the old ordinances with the newly
renovated versions, in book form, at 12 midnight.
For one minute, the county will be without ordinances,
while the clock ticks from March 14 to March 15.
"That really is not a concern," said David Leavitt,
county attorney. "It is just a legal measure to repeal the
old and inaugurate the new."
"Utah Code Annotated provides for publication of county
ordinances in book form," said Leavitt. "All of the
ordinances have been revised and have been brought
up-to-date."
In addition to the book of ordinances, all of those
ordinances have been stored electronically. That will make
them easier to revise in the future, said Leavitt.
The county commission has met all legal requirements for
adopting the new ordinances, said Leavitt. Commissioners
held public hearings regarding the zoning and subdivision
ordinances and made available copies of the proposed
ordinances in the county clerk's office so the public could
review them.
Commissioner Robert Steele read the ordinance adopting
the new ordinances and repealing the old ordinances into the
minutes of the commission meeting before commissioners
agreed to vote in favor of adopting the ordinances and
authorizing the commission chair, Wm. Boyd Howarth, to sign
them.
"We may have to change some of these ordinances because
we are still not certain how some of them will work out in
practice," said Steele.
Leavitt said the ordinances have all been updated
according to the latest needs of the county and the state
statute. "It is the nature of law that it can be, and will
be, changed from time to time."
Change was a constant, he said. Nevertheless, the county
ordinances which still had some concerning late 1800 and
early 1900 problems that were no longer of interest to
lawmakers.
Howarth thanked Leavitt for the hard work he and his
office had done to prepare the new ordinances. "The process
has taken a great deal of time and we appreciate all the
hard work."
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