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Utah Code § 57-13a-102

Prescriptive easement for water conveyance

Enacted by Chapter 175, 1997 General Session

(1) A prescriptive easement may be established if a water user has maintained a water conveyance for a period of 20 years during which the use has been:

(a) continuous;

(b) open and notorious; and

(c) adverse.

(2) If Subsections (1)(a) and (b) are established, there is a rebuttable presumption that the use has been adverse.

Official source: Utah State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Utah statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.