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Committee advances multi‑year recodification of county government code (House Bill 38)
Summary
Representative Dennegan presented the third substitute to HB 38, recodifying Title 17 with changes to petition standards for moving county seats, audit posting rules, recorder indexing and fees, and surveyor payment authority; the committee favorably recommended the bill, 6–0.
Representative Dennegan told the committee HB 38 is the sixth and final bill in a multi‑year recodification of Title 17, Utah’s county government code. He described a set of substantive and technical changes developed with counties and county recorders.
Key changes in the third substitute presented by Dennegan include: requiring petitions to move a county seat to be signed by a majority of active voters in the county…
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