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First Substitute S.B. 201

Senator Curtis S. Bramble proposes the following substitute bill:


             1     
PUBLIC USE TRAILS AMENDMENTS

             2     
2013 GENERAL SESSION

             3     
STATE OF UTAH

             4     
Chief Sponsor: Curtis S. Bramble

             5     
House Sponsor: Brad L. Dee

             6     
             7      LONG TITLE
             8      General Description:
             9          This bill enacts provisions authorizing the use of eminent domain for certain trails,
             10      paths, or walkways.
             11      Highlighted Provisions:
             12          This bill:
             13          .    enacts provisions authorizing the use of eminent domain for certain trails, paths, or
             14      walkways; and
             15          .    makes technical corrections.
             16      Money Appropriated in this Bill:
             17          None
             18      Other Special Clauses:
             19          None
             20      Utah Code Sections Affected:
             21      AMENDS:
             22          78B-6-501, as last amended by Laws of Utah 2012, Chapter 264
             23     
             24      Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
             25          Section 1. Section 78B-6-501 is amended to read:


             26           78B-6-501. Eminent domain -- Uses for which right may be exercised.
             27          (1) Subject to the provisions of this part, the right of eminent domain may be exercised
             28      on behalf of the following public uses:
             29          [(1)] (a) all public uses authorized by the federal government;
             30          [(2)] (b) public buildings and grounds for the use of the state, and all other public uses
             31      authorized by the Legislature;
             32          [(3) (a)] (c) (i) public buildings and grounds for the use of any county, city, town, or
             33      board of education;
             34          [(b)] (ii) reservoirs, canals, aqueducts, flumes, ditches, or pipes for conducting water
             35      for the use of the inhabitants of any county, city, or town, or for the draining of any county,
             36      city, or town;
             37          [(c)] (iii) the raising of the banks of streams, removing obstructions from streams, and
             38      widening, deepening, or straightening their channels;
             39          [(d)] (iv) bicycle paths and sidewalks adjacent to paved roads;
             40          [(e)] (v) roads, streets, and alleys for public vehicular use, excluding and subject to
             41      Subsection (2) trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, equestrian use, or
             42      other recreational uses, or whose primary purpose is as a foot path, equestrian trail, bicycle
             43      path, or walkway; and
             44          [(f)] (vi) all other public uses for the benefit of any county, city, or town, or its
             45      inhabitants;
             46          [(4)] (d) wharves, docks, piers, chutes, booms, ferries, bridges, toll roads, byroads,
             47      plank and turnpike roads, roads for transportation by traction engines or road locomotives,
             48      roads for logging or lumbering purposes, and railroads and street railways for public
             49      transportation;
             50          [(5)] (e) reservoirs, dams, watergates, canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, aqueducts and
             51      pipes for the supplying of persons, mines, mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of
             52      ores, 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)] (f) (i) roads, railroads, tramways, tunnels, ditches, flumes, pipes, and dumping
             56      places to access or facilitate the milling, smelting, or other reduction of ores, or the working of


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


             88          [(b)] (ii) to connect other trails, paths, or other ways for walking, hiking, bicycling, or
             89      equestrian use;
             90          [(12)] (l) pipelines for the purpose of conducting any and all liquids connected with the
             91      manufacture of beet sugar; and
             92          [(13)] (m) sites for mills, smelters or other works for the reduction of ores and
             93      necessary to their successful operation, including the right to take lands for the discharge and
             94      natural distribution of smoke, fumes, and dust, produced by the operation of works, provided
             95      that the powers granted by this section may not be exercised in any county where the
             96      population exceeds 20,000, or within one mile of the limits of any city or incorporated town
             97      nor unless the proposed condemner has the right to operate by purchase, option to purchase or
             98      easement, at least 75% in value of land acreage owned by persons or corporations situated
             99      within a radius of four miles from the mill, smelter or other works for the reduction of ores; nor
             100      beyond the limits of the four-mile radius; nor as to lands covered by contracts, easements, or
             101      agreements existing between the condemner and the owner of land within the limit and
             102      providing for the operation of such mill, smelter, or other works for the reduction of ores; nor
             103      until an action shall have been commenced to restrain the operation of such mill, smelter, or
             104      other works for the reduction of ores.
             105          (2) (a) The right of eminent domain may be exercised on behalf of a trail, foot path,
             106      equestrian trail, bicycle path, or walkway located within a first or second class county if the
             107      trail, path, or walkway:
             108          (i) is included in:
             109          (A) a plan of a state agency; or
             110          (B) a regional transportation plan adopted by a metropolitan planning organization as
             111      defined in Section 72-1-208.5 ; and
             112          (ii) complies with at least three of the following criteria:
             113          (A) the trail, path, or walkway facilitates commuter bicycling;
             114          (B) the trail, path, or walkway is part of a trail system that is at least, whether
             115      completed or planned, 50 miles in length;
             116          (C) more than one state agency or political subdivision contributes to the development
             117      and construction costs of the trail, path, or walkway;
             118          (D) the trail, path, or walkway is financed by bonds or public financing that is secured


             119      before April 1, 2013; or
             120          (E) the trail, path, or walkway is located within the boundaries of a first or second class
             121      municipality or the utility service area of a first or second class municipality.
             122          (b) Notwithstanding Subsection (2)(a), the right of eminent domain may not be
             123      exercised for a trail, path, or walkway described in Subsection (2)(a) if the trail, path, or
             124      walkway is located on property that qualifies for an agricultural use assessment in accordance
             125      with Section 59-2-503 .


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