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S.B. 122

             1     

EMINENT DOMAIN REVISIONS

             2     
2010 GENERAL SESSION

             3     
STATE OF UTAH

             4     
Chief Sponsor: J. Stuart Adams

             5     
House Sponsor: Michael T. Morley

             6     
             7      LONG TITLE
             8      General Description:
             9          This bill amends provisions relating to the right to exercise eminent domain.
             10      Highlighted Provisions:
             11          This bill:
             12          .    authorizes an entity to exercise eminent domain for:
             13              .    a byroad leading from a highway to an existing or proposed residence,
             14      development, or farm; or
             15              .    sewage service for an existing or proposed development; and
             16          .    makes technical corrections.
             17      Monies Appropriated in this Bill:
             18          None
             19      Other Special Clauses:
             20          None
             21      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             22      AMENDS:
             23          78B-6-501, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 341 and renumbered and
             24      amended by Laws of Utah 2008, Chapter 3
             25     
             26      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             27          Section 1. Section 78B-6-501 is amended to read:


             28           78B-6-501. Eminent domain -- Uses for which right may be exercised.
             29          Subject to the provisions of this part, the right of eminent domain may be exercised on
             30      behalf of the following public uses:
             31          (1) all public uses authorized by the [Government of the United States] federal
             32      government;
             33          (2) public buildings and grounds for the use of the state, and all other public uses
             34      authorized by the Legislature;
             35          (3) (a) public buildings and grounds for the use of any county, city, town, or board of
             36      education;
             37          (b) reservoirs, canals, aqueducts, flumes, ditches, or pipes for conducting water for the
             38      use of the inhabitants of any county, city, or town, or for the draining of any county, city, or
             39      town;
             40          (c) the raising of the banks of streams, removing obstructions from streams, and
             41      widening, deepening, or straightening their channels;
             42          (d) bicycle paths and sidewalks adjacent to paved roads;
             43          (e) roads, streets, and alleys for public vehicular use, excluding trails, paths, or other
             44      ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, equestrian use, or other recreational uses, or whose
             45      primary purpose is as a foot path, equestrian trail, bicycle path, or walkway; and
             46          (f) all other public uses for the benefit of any county, city, or town, or its inhabitants;
             47          (4) wharves, docks, piers, chutes, booms, ferries, bridges, toll roads, byroads, plank
             48      and turnpike roads, roads for transportation by traction engines or road locomotives, roads for
             49      logging or lumbering purposes, and railroads and street railways for public transportation;
             50          (5) reservoirs, dams, watergates, canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, aqueducts and pipes
             51      for the supplying of persons, mines, mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores,
             52      with water for domestic or other uses, or for irrigation purposes, or for the draining and
             53      reclaiming of lands, or for the floating of logs and lumber on streams not navigable, or for solar
             54      evaporation ponds and other facilities for the recovery of minerals in solution;
             55          (6) (a) roads, railroads, tramways, tunnels, ditches, flumes, pipes, and dumping places
             56      to access or facilitate the milling, smelting, or other reduction of ores, or the working of mines,
             57      quarries, coal mines, or mineral deposits including minerals in solution;
             58          (b) outlets, natural or otherwise, for the deposit or conduct of tailings, refuse or water


             59      from mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores, or from mines, quarries, coal
             60      mines or mineral deposits including minerals in solution;
             61          (c) mill dams;
             62          (d) gas, oil or coal pipelines, tanks or reservoirs, including any subsurface stratum or
             63      formation in any land for the underground storage of natural gas, and in connection with that,
             64      any other interests in property which may be required to adequately examine, prepare,
             65      maintain, and operate underground natural gas storage facilities;
             66          (e) solar evaporation ponds and other facilities for the recovery of minerals in solution;
             67      and
             68          (f) any occupancy in common by the owners or possessors of different mines, quarries,
             69      coal mines, mineral deposits, mills, smelters, or other places for the reduction of ores, or any
             70      place for the flow, deposit or conduct of tailings or refuse matter;
             71          (7) byroads leading from [highways] a highway to [residences and farms;] an existing
             72      or proposed:
             73          (a) residence;
             74          (b) development; or
             75          (c) farm;
             76          (8) telegraph, telephone, electric light and electric power lines, and sites for electric
             77      light and power plants;
             78          (9) [sewerage of any] sewage service for:
             79          (a) a city or town[, or of any settlement of not less than 10 families, or of any];
             80          (b) an existing or proposed development;
             81          (c) a public building belonging to the state[, or of any]; or
             82          (d) a college or university;
             83          (10) canals, reservoirs, dams, ditches, flumes, aqueducts, and pipes for supplying and
             84      storing water for the operation of machinery for the purpose of generating and transmitting
             85      electricity for power, light or heat;
             86          (11) cemeteries and public parks, except for a park whose primary use is:
             87          (a) as a trail, path, or other way for walking, hiking, bicycling, or equestrian use; or
             88          (b) to connect other trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, or
             89      equestrian use;


             90          (12) pipe lines for the purpose of conducting any and all liquids connected with the
             91      manufacture of beet sugar; and
             92          (13) sites for mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores and necessary to
             93      their successful operation, including the right to take lands for the discharge and natural
             94      distribution of smoke, fumes, and dust, produced by the operation of works, provided that the
             95      powers granted by this subsection may not be exercised in any county where the population
             96      exceeds 20,000, or within one mile of the limits of any city or incorporated town nor unless the
             97      proposed condemner has the right to operate by purchase, option to purchase or easement, at
             98      least 75% in value of land acreage owned by persons or corporations situated within a radius of
             99      four miles from the mill, smelter or other works for the reduction of ores; nor beyond the limits
             100      of the four-mile radius; nor as to lands covered by contracts, easements, or agreements existing
             101      between the condemner and the owner of land within the limit and providing for the operation
             102      of such mill, smelter, or other works for the reduction of ores; nor until an action shall have
             103      been commenced to restrain the operation of such mill, smelter, or other works for the
             104      reduction of ores.




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