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H.B. 187

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EMINENT DOMAIN AMENDMENTS

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2007 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Roger E. Barrus

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Senate Sponsor: ____________

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             7      LONG TITLE
             8      General Description:
             9          This bill modifies a provision relating to eminent domain.
             10      Highlighted Provisions:
             11          This bill:
             12          .    modifies a provision requiring damages to be assessed on behalf of a property
             13      owner, part of whose property is being acquired by eminent domain, to provide that
             14      damages accruing to the remaining property due to construction of the improvement
             15      are to be assessed whether or not the construction actually occurs on the portion
             16      being taken; and
             17          .    makes technical changes.
             18      Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
             19          None
             20      Other Special Clauses:
             21          None
             22      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             23      AMENDS:
             24          78-34-10, as last amended by Chapter 101, Laws of Utah 2004
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             26      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             27          Section 1. Section 78-34-10 is amended to read:


             28           78-34-10. Compensation and damages -- How assessed.
             29          The court, jury, or referee [must] shall hear [such] the legal evidence [as may be]
             30      offered by any of the parties to the proceedings, and [thereupon must], based on the evidence,
             31      shall ascertain and assess:
             32          (1) the value of the property sought to be condemned and all improvements thereon
             33      appertaining to the realty, and of each and every separate estate or interest therein; and if it
             34      consists of different parcels, the value of each parcel and of each estate or interest therein shall
             35      be separately assessed;
             36          (2) if the property sought to be condemned constitutes only a part of a larger parcel, the
             37      damages [which] that will accrue to the portion not sought to be condemned [by reason]:
             38          (a) because of its severance from the portion sought to be condemned; and
             39          (b) because of the construction of the improvement in the manner proposed by the
             40      plaintiff, whether or not the improvement is constructed on the portion sought to be
             41      condemned;
             42          (3) if the property, though no part thereof is taken, will be damaged by the construction
             43      of the proposed improvement, the amount of such damages;
             44          (4) separately, how much the portion not sought to be condemned, and each estate or
             45      interest therein, will be benefited, if at all, by the construction of the improvement proposed by
             46      the plaintiff. If the benefit shall be equal to the damages assessed under [Subdivision]
             47      Subsection (2) [of this section], the owner of the parcel shall be allowed no compensation
             48      except the value of the portion taken; but if the benefit shall be less than the damages so
             49      assessed, the former shall be deducted from the latter, and the remainder shall be the only
             50      damages allowed in addition to the value of the portion taken;
             51          (5) if the property sought to be condemned consists of water rights or part of a water
             52      delivery system or both, and the taking will cause present or future damage to or impairment of
             53      the water delivery system not being taken, including impairment of the system's carrying
             54      capacity, an amount to compensate for the damage or impairment;
             55          (6) if land on which crops are growing at the time of service of summons is sought to
             56      be condemned, the value that those crops would have had after being harvested, taking into
             57      account the expenses that would have been incurred cultivating and harvesting the crops; and
             58          (7) as far as practicable compensation must be assessed for each source of damages


             59      separately.




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