Utah Code 78B-6-502. Estates and rights that may be taken
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Except as provided in Subsection
(1) a fee simple, when taken for:
Terms Used In Utah Code 78B-6-502
- Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
- Land: includes :(18)(a) land;(18)(b) a tenement;(18)(c) a hereditament;(18)(d) a water right;(18)(e) a possessory right; and(18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5(1)(a) public buildings or grounds;(1)(b) permanent buildings;(1)(c) reservoirs and dams, and permanent flooding occasioned by them;(1)(d) any permanent flood control structure affixed to the land;(1)(e) an outlet for a flow, a place for the deposit of debris or tailings of a mine, mill, smelter, or other place for the reduction of ores; and(1)(f) subject to Subsection
78B-6-501 (6),solar evaporation ponds and other facilities for the recovery of minerals in solution, except when the surface ground is underlaid with minerals, coal, or other deposits sufficiently valuable to justify extraction, only a perpetual easement may be taken over the surface ground over the deposits;
(2) an easement, when taken for any other use; and
(3) the right of entry upon and occupation of lands, with the right to take from those lands earth, gravel, stones, trees, and timber as necessary for a public use.