78B-2-216. Adverse possession of public streets or ways.
A person may not acquire by adverse possession any right in or title to any property held
by a town, city, or county and designated for public use as streets, lanes, avenues, alleys, parks or
public squares, or any other public purpose, unless the town, city, or county has sold, or
otherwise disposed of, and conveyed the property to a purchaser for valuable consideration, and
more than seven years subsequent to that conveyance the purchaser or the purchaser's grantees or
successors in interest, have been in the exclusive, continuous, and adverse possession of the real
estate.
Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 3, 2008 General Session
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