Utah Code § 10-3b-203

(1) The council in a municipality operating under a council-mayor form of government: (a) shall: (i) by ordinance, provide for the manner in which: (A) municipal property is bought, sold, traded, encumbered, or otherwise transferred; and (B) a subdivision or annexation is approved, disapproved, or otherwise regulated; (ii) pass ordinances, appropriate funds, and review municipal administration; (iii) perform all duties that the law imposes on the council; and (iv) elect one of its members to be the chair of the council; (b) may: (i) adopt an ordinance, to be known as the municipal administrative code: (A) dividing the municipality's administrative service into departments, divisions, and bureaus; and (B) defining the functions and duties of each department, division, and bureau; (ii) adopt an ordinance: (A) creating, consolidating, or abolishing departments, divisions, and bureaus; and (B) defining or altering the functions and duties of each department, division, and bureau; (iii) notwithstanding Subsection (1)(c)(iii), make suggestions or recommendations to a subordinate of the mayor; (iv) (A) notwithstanding Subsection (1)(c), appoint a committee of council members or citizens to conduct an investigation into: (I) an officer, department, or agency of the municipality; or (II) any other matter relating to the welfare of the municipality; and (B) delegate to an appointed committee powers of inquiry that the council considers necessary; (v) make and enforce any additional rule or regulation for the government of the council, the preservation of order, and the transaction of the council's business that the council considers necessary; and (vi) take any action allowed under Section 10-8-84; and (c) may not: (i) direct or request, other than in writing, the appointment of a person to or the removal of a person from an executive municipal office; (ii) interfere in any way with an executive officer's performance of the officer's duties; or (iii) publicly or privately give orders to a subordinate of the mayor. (2) A member of a council in a municipality operating under the council-mayor form of government may not have any other compensated employment with the municipality.