2006 Utah Code - 17A-2-541 — Bridges and culverts across highways and railroads.

     17A-2-541.   Bridges and culverts across highways and railroads.
     (1) The board of trustees may make all necessary bridges and culverts across or under any public highway or railroad right-of-way, to enable it to construct and maintain any canal, drain, or ditch necessary to be constructed as a part of the drainage system of such district, such bridges or culverts to be paid for by the drainage district.
     (2) (a) Before the board exercises the power granted in Subsection (1), notice shall first be given by such board of trustees to railway authorities empowered to build or construct bridges and culverts, and the railway company shall be allowed 30 days to build such bridges or culverts, at its own expense, if it should so desire, according to its own plans.
     (b) Such bridges or culverts shall be constructed by railway authorities so as not to interfere with the free and unobstructed flow of water, passing through the canal or drain, and shall be placed at such points as are indicated by the drainage engineer.

Amended by Chapter 254, 2000 General Session