H.B. 364

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EMINENT DOMAIN AND PUBLIC RECREATION

             2     
2014 GENERAL SESSION

             3     
STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Marc K. Roberts

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Senate Sponsor: Howard A. Stephenson

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             7      LONG TITLE
             8      General Description:
             9          This bill prohibits the use of eminent domain for a golf course.
             10      Highlighted Provisions:
             11          This bill:
             12          .    prohibits the use of eminent domain for a golf course.
             13      Money Appropriated in this Bill:
             14          None
             15      Other Special Clauses:
             16          None
             17      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             18      AMENDS:
             19           78B-6-501 , as last amended by Laws of Utah 2013, Chapter 327
             20     
             21      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             22          Section 1. Section 78B-6-501 is amended to read:
             23           78B-6-501. Eminent domain -- Uses for which right may be exercised.
             24          Subject to the provisions of this part, the right of eminent domain may be exercised on
             25      behalf of the following public uses:
             26          (1) all public uses authorized by the federal government;
             27          (2) public buildings and grounds for the use of the state, and all other public uses


             28      authorized by the Legislature;
             29          (3) (a) public buildings and grounds for the use of any county, city, town, or board of
             30      education;
             31          (b) reservoirs, canals, aqueducts, flumes, ditches, or pipes for conducting water or
             32      sewage, including to or from a development, for the use of the inhabitants of any county, city,
             33      or town, or for the draining of any county, city, or town;
             34          (c) the raising of the banks of streams, removing obstructions from streams, and
             35      widening, deepening, or straightening their channels;
             36          (d) bicycle paths and sidewalks adjacent to paved roads;
             37          (e) roads, byroads, streets, and alleys for public vehicular use, including for access to a
             38      development, excluding trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, equestrian
             39      use, or other recreational uses, or whose primary purpose is as a foot path, equestrian trail,
             40      bicycle path, or walkway; and
             41          (f) all other public uses for the benefit of any county, city, or town, or its inhabitants;
             42          (4) wharves, docks, piers, chutes, booms, ferries, bridges, toll roads, byroads, plank
             43      and turnpike roads, roads for transportation by traction engines or road locomotives, roads for
             44      logging or lumbering purposes, and railroads and street railways for public transportation;
             45          (5) reservoirs, dams, watergates, canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, aqueducts and pipes
             46      for the supplying of persons, mines, mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores,
             47      with water for domestic or other uses, or for irrigation purposes, or for the draining and
             48      reclaiming of lands, or for the floating of logs and lumber on streams not navigable, or for solar
             49      evaporation ponds and other facilities for the recovery of minerals in solution;
             50          (6) (a) roads, railroads, tramways, tunnels, ditches, flumes, pipes, and dumping places
             51      to access or facilitate the milling, smelting, or other reduction of ores, or the working of mines,
             52      quarries, coal mines, or mineral deposits including oil, gas, and minerals in solution;
             53          (b) outlets, natural or otherwise, for the deposit or conduct of tailings, refuse or water
             54      from mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores, or from mines, quarries, coal
             55      mines or mineral deposits including minerals in solution;
             56          (c) mill dams;
             57          (d) gas, oil or coal pipelines, tanks or reservoirs, including any subsurface stratum or
             58      formation in any land for the underground storage of natural gas, and in connection with that,


             59      any other interests in property which may be required to adequately examine, prepare,
             60      maintain, and operate underground natural gas storage facilities;
             61          (e) solar evaporation ponds and other facilities for the recovery of minerals in solution;
             62      and
             63          (f) any occupancy in common by the owners or possessors of different mines, quarries,
             64      coal mines, mineral deposits, mills, smelters, or other places for the reduction of ores, or any
             65      place for the flow, deposit or conduct of tailings or refuse matter;
             66          (7) byroads leading from a highway to:
             67          (a) a residence; or
             68          (b) a farm;
             69          (8) telegraph, telephone, electric light and electric power lines, and sites for electric
             70      light and power plants;
             71          (9) sewage service for:
             72          (a) a city, a town, or any settlement of not fewer than 10 families;
             73          (b) a public building belonging to the state; or
             74          (c) a college or university;
             75          (10) canals, reservoirs, dams, ditches, flumes, aqueducts, and pipes for supplying and
             76      storing water for the operation of machinery for the purpose of generating and transmitting
             77      electricity for power, light or heat;
             78          (11) cemeteries and public parks, except for a park whose primary use is:
             79          (a) as a trail, path, or other way for walking, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use; [or]
             80          (b) to connect other trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, or
             81      equestrian use; or
             82          (c) as a golf course;
             83          (12) pipelines for the purpose of conducting any and all liquids connected with the
             84      manufacture of beet sugar; and
             85          (13) sites for mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores and necessary to
             86      their successful operation, including the right to take lands for the discharge and natural
             87      distribution of smoke, fumes, and dust, produced by the operation of works, provided that the
             88      powers granted by this section may not be exercised in any county where the population
             89      exceeds 20,000, or within one mile of the limits of any city or incorporated town nor unless the


             90      proposed condemner has the right to operate by purchase, option to purchase or easement, at
             91      least 75% in value of land acreage owned by persons or corporations situated within a radius of
             92      four miles from the mill, smelter or other works for the reduction of ores; nor beyond the limits
             93      of the four-mile radius; nor as to lands covered by contracts, easements, or agreements existing
             94      between the condemner and the owner of land within the limit and providing for the operation
             95      of such mill, smelter, or other works for the reduction of ores; nor until an action shall have
             96      been commenced to restrain the operation of such mill, smelter, or other works for the
             97      reduction of ores.




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