H.B. 334
         EMINENT DOMAIN

house floor Amendments

Amendment 2 February 13, 2007 12:06 pm



Representative Lorie D. Fowlke proposes the following amendments:

1.    Page 1, Lines 15 through 16
    House Committee Amendments
    2-1-2007 :
    

             15          
{   .    excludes emergency access ways as a public use for which eminent domain may be

             16      used;  
}


2.    Page 2, Lines 52 through 53
    House Committee Amendments
    2-1-2007 :
    

             52          (e) roads, streets, and alleys for public vehicular use, excluding
{   :

             53          (i)  
}
trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, equestrian use, or other

3.    Page 2, Line 56
    House Committee Amendments
    2-1-2007 :
    

             56          
{   (ii) paths, lanes, or other ways for emergency access; and   }


4.    Page 4, Line 120 through Page 5, Line 130
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    2-1-2007 :
    

             120          
{   (2) The change to Subsection 78-34-1 (3) made by S.B. 117 was intended as a

             121      reaffirmation of then existing law and was an effort to state explicitly an existing principle of
             122      eminent domain that had not previously been as explicitly stated. A clarification of the intent
             123      behind the change to Subsection 78-34-1 (3) will benefit all those applying and interpreting this
             124      provision of the Utah Code.
             125          (3) The Legislature viewed Section 78-34-1 , before the passage of S.B. 117 from the
             126      2006 General Session, as excluding trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling,
             127      equestrian use, or other recreational uses, from the public uses for which eminent domain may
             128      be used.  
}

             129          
{   (4)   }        (2)       In passing S.B. 117, it was the intent of the Legislature that the addition of new

             130      language to Subsection 78-34-1 (3) after the word "alleys" was
{   to reaffirm the existing law and   }



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