(1) The failure of an owner of real property to disclose that the property being offered for sale is stigmatized is not a material fact that must be disclosed in the transaction of real property.

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Terms Used In Utah Code 57-1-37

  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
  • real property: includes :
         (31)(a) land;
         (31)(b) a tenement;
         (31)(c) a hereditament;
         (31)(d) a water right;
         (31)(e) a possessory right; and
         (31)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Stigmatized: means :
         (4)(a) the site or suspected site of a homicide, other felony, or suicide;
         (4)(b) the dwelling place of a person infected, or suspected of being infected, with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or any other infectious disease that the Utah Department of Health determines cannot be transferred by occupancy of a dwelling place; or
         (4)(c) property that has been found to be contaminated, and that the local health department has subsequently found to have been decontaminated in accordance with Title 19, Chapter 6, Part 9, Illegal Drug Operations Site Reporting and Decontamination Act. See Utah Code 57-1-1
(2) Neither an owner nor his agent is liable for failing to disclose that the property is stigmatized.