Series 13139

BEAVER (UTAH) [87]

CODIFIED ORDINANCES, 1881-[ongoing]

A separate agency history is available.

DESCRIPTION: As the governing body of Beaver City, the Mayor and City Council enact their legislative power through the creation of ordinances. An ordinance may "regulate, require, prohibit, govern, control or supervise any activity, business, conduct or condition [as] authorized" by the Utah Code (UCA, 2003, 10-3-701-702).

According to its minutes, the City Council began discussing the codification of ordinances in March 1881. For an outside cost of $220.00 they would be revised, rewritten, arranged and proof-read before being published and distributed. Though the resulting edition did not survive, the rest of the minutes themselves frequently include drafts of new or revised ordinances over the ensuing years. They are usually singly numbered apparently pending codification. When codified, each ordinance under a chapter (1982) or title and chapter (2000) has a section number, a short title and the body which includes detailed instructions for the particular cause, action and possible result if broken. Over the years, ordinances have regulated the setup of municipal government, business licensing, public health, traffic, utilities and zoning.

In addition, the 1982 ordinances have "chapters" added beyond the end of the volume, including a Master Plan dated the same year. Each addition was assigned a chapter number as ordered and is therefore included in this series.

ARRANGEMENT: The Beaver City Codified Ordinances are arranged chronologically by year, thereunder numerical by chapter or title.

RELATED RECORDS: Examples of many earlier ordinances are found drafted in the Beaver City COUNCIL MINUTES, series 85015.

PROCESSING NOTE: This series was filmed by the Utah State Archives in 1986 and 2002, and was processed by Gina Strack in June 2003.

PREFERRED CITATION: Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.

GAPS: There are no holdings in this series for 1881-1981, 1983-1999.

CONTAINER LIST

Reel	Description
1	1982
2	2000