2025 Utah Code
Title 57 - Real Estate
Chapter 13c - Uniform Easement Relocation Act
Section 102 - Scope -- Exclusions.

Universal Citation:
UT Code § 57-13c-102 (2025)
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Effective 5/4/2022
57-13c-102. Scope -- Exclusions.
  • (1) Except as otherwise provided in Subsection (2), this chapter applies to an easement established:
    • (a) by express grant or reservation; or
    • (b) by prescription, implication, necessity, estoppel, or other method.
  • (2) This chapter may not be used to relocate:
    • (a) a conservation easement, a negative easement, a public-entity easement, a public-utility easement, or a water-conveyance easement;
    • (b) an easement held by a mine operator and used in connection with a vested mining use that is recorded in accordance with Section 17-41-501;
    • (c) any easement associated in any way with a highway or a public transit facility; or
    • (d) an easement if the proposed location would:
      • (i) encroach on an area of an estate burdened by a conservation easement, a public-entity easement, a public-utility easement, a water-conveyance easement, a highway, or a public transit facility; or
      • (ii) interfere with the use or enjoyment of:
        • (A) a public-entity easement, a public-utility easement, or a water-conveyance easement; or
        • (B) an easement appurtenant to a conservation easement, a highway, or a public transit facility.
  • (3) This chapter does not apply to relocation of an easement by consent.


Enacted by Chapter 305, 2022 General Session
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