§ 7-2-6101 — Definitions

7-2-6101 . Definitions. For the purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Hospital district" means a district created pursuant to Title 7, chapter 34, part 21.
(2) "Inability to access public services" means the inability of a real property owner to reach public services in the county in which the owner's property is located due to:
(a) a physical or geographical barrier;
(b) a lack of public county or public county-maintained roads; or
(c) a lack of legal access on private roads requiring travel into an adjacent county and back into the county in which the owner's property is located; or
(d) access on roads that require ambulances to travel more than 60 minutes to reach the property when following all speed limits.
(3) "Public services" means any of the following that are offered to the general public:
(a) educational services and facilities; or
(b) hospital or emergency medical services and facilities.
(4) "Qualified petitioner" means:
(a) for a petition related to a hospital district, an owner of real property located within the hospital district:
(i) whose property is more reasonably accessible to public services headquartered in the county seat or closest city, town, resort community, resort area, or resort area district of an adjoining county than to public services headquartered in the county seat or closest city, town, resort community, resort area, or resort area district of the county in which the owner's property is located, or
(ii) from whose property the owner has an inability to access public services from the county seat or closest city, town, resort community, resort area, or resort area district of the county in which the owner's property is located;
(b) for a petition related to a school district, a petition described in 20-6-105 .
(5) "School district" means a school district created under Title 20, chapter 6.

Legislative History

En. Sec. 1, Ch. 593, L. 2025.