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Planning commission recommends approval of revised code-enforcement penalties, appeals and warrant language
Summary
The commission voted unanimously June 26 to recommend a text amendment that clarifies remedies and enforcement steps, adds tiered civil fines, standardizes appeal timing and adds a right-to-inspect/warrant provision referencing Utah rule 40(k).
The Morgan County Planning Commission on June 26 voted unanimously to recommend approval of a revised code-enforcement penalty section that clarifies enforcement steps, expands available remedies and adds explicit right-to-inspect and administrative-warrant language.
Janet, planning staff, summarized the draft changes as a rewrite of the county's penalty section to make enforcement clearer and legally defensible. She said the update lists remedies, establishes a step-by-step enforcement process, and sets uniform appeal timing. "The big thing was making sure that we had a good list of remedies available to us," Janet said. She proposed language tightening emergency abatement to "take only those actions that are reasonably necessary and narrowly tailored to…
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