17D-2-401 - Project lease agreements. - Utah Statutes

17D-2-401. Project lease agreements.
(1) A local building authority and its creating local entity may enter into a leaseagreement with respect to a project that the local building authority:
(a) has constructed, acquired, improved, or extended on behalf of the creating localentity; or
(b) will construct, acquire, improve, or extend on behalf of the creating local entity.
(2) (a) A local building authority and its creating local entity may enter into a leaseagreement before the local building authority's acquisition of a site or construction of the project.
(b) Each lease agreement described in Subsection (2)(a) shall:
(i) provide that the creating local entity is not required to make a lease payment untilacquisition or construction of the project is completed; and
(ii) require the local building authority to furnish or cause the construction contractor tofurnish a bond satisfactory to the creating local entity, conditioned upon:
(A) final completion of the project as expeditiously as reasonably possible from the dateof the execution of the lease agreement; and
(B) delivery of possession of the project to the creating local entity free and clear of allliens and encumbrances, except:
(I) taxes, liens, and encumbrances on the local building authority's interest in the leasedproperty; and
(II) easements and restrictions that the creating local entity accepts.

Enacted by Chapter 360, 2008 General Session