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Utah Code § 73-1-6 (2026)

Eminent domain -- Purposes

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Any person shall have a right of way across and upon public, private and corporate lands, or other rights of way, for the construction, maintenance, repair and use of all necessary reservoirs, dams, water gates, canals, ditches, flumes, tunnels, pipelines and areas for setting up pumps and pumping machinery or other means of securing, storing, replacing and conveying water for domestic, culinary, industrial and irrigation purposes or for any necessary public use, or for drainage, upon payment of just compensation therefor, but such right of way shall in all cases be exercised in a manner not unnecessarily to impair the practical use of any other right of way, highway or public or private road, or to injure any public or private property.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 1975–2016 · leading case: Bresee v. Barton, 2016 UT App 220 (Utah Ct. App. 2016).
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Bresee v. Barton, 2016 UT App 220 (Utah Ct. App. 2016). · cites it 24× “Utah Code Ann. § 73-1-6 (LexisNexis 2012).”
Moon Lake Water Users Ass'n v. Hanson, 535 P.2d 1262 (Utah 1975). · cites it 8× “Pursuant to the provisions of 78-34-6 plaintiff's complaint made a statement of the right of plaintiff to condemn, in the following words: "That plaintiff has a right to condemn the land required for such project under Section 73-1-6, Utah Code Annotated 1953.”
Canyon View Irrigation Co. v. Twin Falls Canal Co., 619 P.2d 122 (Idaho 1980). · cites it 2× “§ 46-8-1; Utah Code Ann. §§ 73-1-6 & 73-1-7; Wash. Rev.”
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