H.B. 364
         EMINENT DOMAIN AND PUBLIC RECREATION

House Committee Amendments

Amendment 1 February 26, 2014 9:36 PM



Representative Marc K. Roberts proposes the following amendments:

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  (1)       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)   }        (a)       all public uses authorized by the federal government;

             27          
{   (2)   }        (b)       public buildings and grounds for the use of the state, and all other public uses

             28      authorized by the Legislature;
             29          
{   (3) (a)   }        (c)(i)       public buildings and grounds for the use of any county, city, town, or board of

             30      education;
             31          
{   (b)   }        (ii)       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)   }        (iii)       the raising of the banks of streams, removing obstructions from streams, and

             35      widening, deepening, or straightening their channels;
             36          
{   (d)   }        (iv)       bicycle paths and sidewalks adjacent to paved roads;

             37          
{   (e)   }        (v)       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)   }        (vi)       all other public uses for the benefit of any county, city, or town, or its inhabitants;

             42          
{   (4)   }        (d)       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)   }        (e)       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)   }        (f)(i)       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)   }        (ii)       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)   }        (iii)       mill dams;

             57          
{   (d)   }        (iv)       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)   }        (v)       solar evaporation ponds and other facilities for the recovery of minerals in solution;

             62      and
             63          
{   (f)   }        (vi)       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)   }        (g)       byroads leading from a highway to:

             67          
{   (a)   }        (i)       a residence; or

             68          
{   (b)   }        (ii)       a farm;

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{   (8)   }        (h)       telegraph, telephone, electric light and electric power lines, and sites for electric

             70      light and power plants;
             71          
{   (9)   }        (i)       sewage service for:

             72          
{   (a)   }        (i)       a city, a town, or any settlement of not fewer than 10 families;

             73          
{   (b)   }        (ii)       a public building belonging to the state; or

             74          
{   (c)   }        (iii)       a college or university;

             75          
{   (10)   }        (j)       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)   }        (k)       cemeteries and public parks, except for a park whose primary use is:

             79          
{   (a)   }        (i)       as a trail, path, or other way for walking, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use; [or]

             80          
{   (b)   }        (ii)       to connect other trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, or

             81      equestrian use; or
             82          
{   (c)   }        (iii) except as provided in Subsection (2),       as a golf course;

             83          
{   (12)   }        (l)       pipelines for the purpose of conducting any and all liquids connected with the

             84      manufacture of beet sugar; and
             85          
{   (13)   }        (m)       sites for mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores and necessary to


2.    Page 4, Line 97 :    

             97      reduction of ores.
    
  (2) Subsection (1)(k)(iii) does not apply to an exercise of eminent domain by the Department of Transportation to acquire property intended, in whole or in part, for use as a golf course if the property acquired by eminent domain is needed:

    (a)(i) to exchange for other real property that is devoted to or held for public use; and
    (ii) for a state transportation purpose; or


    (b) to mitigate the impacts of a public transportation project.  


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