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Utah Code Title 57. Real Estate § 57-13b-201. Prescriptive easement for livestock trail

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(1) A prescriptive easement may be established if:

(a) a property owner uses an historical livestock trail that crosses another person's property for a period of 20 years; and

(b) the use of the other owner's property as an historical livestock trail for the 20-year period described in Subsection (1)(a) is:

(i) continuous;

(ii) open and notorious; and

(iii) adverse.

(2) If a property owner establishes that a use is continuous and open and notorious under Subsections (1)(b)(i) and (ii), there is a rebuttable presumption that the use is adverse.

(3) Notwithstanding Subsections (1) and (2), a prescriptive easement under this chapter may only be established on private lands.

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