Ordinance 12-03-2025 An Ordinance Amending Title 9, of the Santaquin City Code Pertaining to Adoption of the Santaquin Wildland Urban Interface Area Map, Providing for Codification, Correction of Scrivener's Errors, Severability
Ordinance 12-03-2025 An Ordinance Amending Title 9, of the Santaquin City Code Pertaining to Adoption of the Santaquin Wildland Urban Interface Area Map, Providing for Codification, Correction of Scrivener's Errors, Severability
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Event Start Date & Time
December 17, 2025 05:00 PM
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Ordinance 12-03-2025
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 9, OF THE SANTAQUIN CITY CODE PERTAINING TO ADOPTION OF THE SANTAQUIN WILDLAND URBAN INTERFACE AREA MAP, PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION, CORRECTION OF SCRIVENER'S ERRORS, SEVERABILITY, AND AN EFFECTIVE DATE FOR THE ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, Title 9 of the Santaquin City Code adopts various Building Regulations and Code Standards for Buildings and Construction within Santaquin City ('City'); and
WHEREAS, the City Council has adopted the 2006 edition of the Utah Wildland Urban Interface Code ('Code') to safeguard life and property from the intrusion of wildfire in Wildland Urban Interface Areas; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend Title 9, of the Santaquin City Code to add Chapter 9.06 Wildland Urban Interface Map, as set forth in Exhibit A, attached hereto and incorporated herein; and
WHEREAS, the Santaquin City Planning Commission held a public hearing on December 9, 2025, which hearing was preceded by the posting of public notice in at least three public places within the City limits of Santaquin City; and
WHEREAS, after said public hearing the Santaquin City Planning Commission forwarded a recommendation to the City Council;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE SANTAQUIN CITY COUNCIL AS FOLLOWS:
Section I. Amendment of City Code
Title 9 of the Santaquin City Code pertaining to Buildings and Construction is hereby amended to add Chapter 06, Wildland Urban Interface Map, as outlined in Exhibit A.
Section II. Severability
If any part of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstances shall, for any reason, be adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this ordinance or the application thereof to other persons and circumstances, but shall be confined to its operation to the section, subdivision, sentence or part of the section and the persons and circumstances directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of the City Council that this section would have been adopted if such invalid section, provision, subdivision, sentence or part of a section or application had not been included.
Section III. Contrary Provisions Repealed
Any and all other provisions of the Santaquin City Code that are contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
Section IV. Codification, Inclusion in the Code, and Scrivener's Errors
It is the intent of the City Council that the provisions of this ordinance be made part of the Santaquin City Code as adopted, that sections of this ordinance may be re-numbered or re-lettered, and that the word ordinance may be changed to section, chapter, or other such appropriate word or phrase in order to accomplish such intent regardless of whether such inclusion in a code is accomplished. Typographical errors which do not affect the intent of this ordinance may be corrected by the City without need of public hearing by its filing a corrected or re-codified copy of the same with the City Recorder.
Section V. Posting and Effective Date
This ordinance shall become effective at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17, 2025. Prior to that time, the City Recorder shall deposit a copy of this ordinance in the official records of the City and comply with all applicable posting requirements, including placing a copy of this ordinance in three places within the City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 16th day of December, 2025.
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