17-8-5.5 - Protection of channels and flood plains -- Acquisition of land. - Utah Statutes

17-8-5.5. Protection of channels and flood plains -- Acquisition of land.
The county legislative body may also provide by ordinance for the protection and use offlood channels and present flood plains on rivers, streams, and canals located within the countyand the incorporated municipalities in the county and may establish by ordinance the boundariesof these flood channels and present flood plains. The county may acquire and hold by gift orpurchase, such lands, rights of way, easements, or other interests in property within theestablished boundaries of these flood channels and present flood plains. Flood plain as usedherein means the lands along the course of the river or stream which is periodically flooded andfor which flood control protective works would normally be provided or desirable.

Amended by Chapter 227, 1993 General Session