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Purpose and legislative effect
“A municipality may allow a general utility easement for electric, gas, or telephone service to also be used for water or sewerage service, and a servient-estate owner may realign an eminent-domain utility easement at their own expense unless engineering or safety constraints prevent reasonable realignment.”
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A municipality may allow a general utility easement for electric, gas, or telephone service to also be used for water or sewerage service, and a servient-estate owner may realign an eminent-domain utility easement at their own expense unless engineering or…
Section 10-8-14.5
A municipality that grants a general utility easement for electric, gas, or telephone service may also allow the easement to be used for water or sewerage service.
Section 10-8-14.5(1)
A general utility easement in Subsection (1) is subject to the provisions for a public utility easement under Section 54-3-27.
Section 10-8-14.5(2)
If a municipality acquires a utility easement through eminent domain for use under this section, the servient estate owner may realign it at the owner’s expense, unless engineering or safety requirements make reasonable realignment impossible.
Section 10-8-14.5(3)
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