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Terms Used In Utah Code 10-8-36

  • City: means a municipality that is classified by population as a city of the first class, a city of the second class, a city of the third class, a city of the fourth class, or a city of the fifth class, under Section 10-2-301. See Utah Code 10-1-104
  • Highway: includes :
         (15)(a) a public bridge;
         (15)(b) a county way;
         (15)(c) a county road;
         (15)(d) a common road; and
         (15)(e) a state road. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5

     They may require railroad companies to keep flagmen at railroad crossings of streets, or otherwise provide protection against injury to persons or property; may compel railroad and street railroad companies to raise or lower their tracks to conform to any grade which at any time may be established by the city, so that such tracks may be crossed at any place on any street, alley or highway; may compel railway companies to make and keep open, and keep in repair, ditches, drains, sewers and culverts along and under their tracks, so that the natural or artificial drainage of adjacent property may not be impaired.