Title 15
Roads

15-1-1. Definitions .

As used in this title:

(1) "City” or “town” means an incorporated municipality.

(2) "Construction" means the construction, reconstruction, replacement, and improvement of the highways, including the acquisition of rights-of-way and material sites.

(3) "Commission" means the Board of County Commissioners for Tooele County .

(3) "County road" means any county-designated or maintained public roads, highways, streets and rights-of-way within the county, not designated as state, or city streets and highways.

(4) “Driveway” means a private access way for vehicles, leading from a street to a parking or loading area.

(5) "Highway" means any public road, street, alley, lane, court, place, viaduct, tunnel, culvert, bridge, or structure laid out or erected for public use, or dedicated or abandoned to the public, or made public in an action for the partition of real property, including the entire area within the right-of-way.

(6) "Maintenance" means the performance of all things necessary to keep a highway or private road in serviceable condition.

(7) "Official map" means the official map or official maps of the county as adopted by the County Commission in accordance with law, designating and showing the highways, county roads, freeways, parks, parkways and sites for public buildings or works, including subsurface facilities, in the acquisition, financing or construction of which the county has participated or may be called upon to participate.

(8) "Person" includes any individual, firm, company, partnership, corporation, association or any group or combination, and the plural as well as the singular number unless the intent to give a more limited meaning is disclosed by the context.

(9) “Private road” means any right-of-way not dedicated to public use.

(10) “Road division" means the Tooele County Department of Engineering and includes the road division.

(11) "Section" means a section of this title unless some other section is specifically mentioned.

(12) "Sidewalk" means that portion of a road or highway reserved for pedestrian transportation between the curb line or the lateral lines of a roadway and the adjacent property lines.