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UT Code § 57-2a-3 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 2a - Recognition of Acknowledgments Act|Section 3 - Persons authorized to perform notarial acts.

57-2a-3. Persons authorized to perform notarial acts.    (1) Notarial acts performed in this state shall be performed by:   (a) a judge or court clerk having a seal;     (b) a notary public; or     (c) a county clerk or county recorder.       (2) The following persons authorized under the laws and regulations of other governments may perform notarial acts outside this state for use in this state with the same effect as if performed by a notary public of this state:   (a) a notary public authorized to perform notarial acts in the place where the act is performed;     (b) a judge, clerk, or deputy clerk of any court of record in the place where the notarial act is performed;     (c) an officer of the foreign service of the United States, a consular agent, or any other person authorized by regulation of the United States Department of State to perform notarial acts in the place where the act is performed;     (d) a commissioned officer in active service with the Armed Forces of the United States and any other person authorized by regulation of the Armed Forces to perform notarial acts if the notarial act is performed for any of his dependents, a merchant seaman of the United States, a member of the Armed Forces of the United States, or any other person serving with or accompanying the Armed Forces of the United States; or     (e) any other person authorized to perform notarial acts in the place where the act is performed.      Amended by Chapter 88, 1989 General Session
UT Code § 57-2a-4 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 2a - Recognition of Acknowledgments Act|Section 4 - Proof of authority -- Prima facie evidence.

57-2a-4. Proof of authority -- Prima facie evidence.    (1) Except as provided in Subsections (2) and (3), the signature, title or rank, branch of service, and serial number, if any, of any person described in Subsection 57-2a-3(2) are sufficient proof of his authority to perform a notarial act. Further proof of his authority is not required.     (2) Proof of the authority of a person to perform a notarial act under the laws or regulations of a foreign country is sufficient if:   (a) a foreign service officer of the United States resident in the country in which the act is performed or a diplomatic or consular officer of the foreign country resident in the United States certifies that a person holding that office is authorized to perform the act;     (b) the official seal of the person performing the notarial act is affixed to the document; or     (c) the title and indication of authority to perform notarial acts of the person appears either in a digest of foreign law or in a list customarily used as a source of such information.       (3) The signature and title or rank of the person performing the notarial act are prima facie evidence that he is a person with the designated title and that his signature is genuine.    Amended by Chapter 306, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 57-2a-5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 2a - Recognition of Acknowledgments Act|Section 5 - Certificate.

57-2a-5. Certificate.  A person taking an acknowledgment shall cause a certificate in a form acceptable under Section 57-2a-6 or 57-2a-7 to be endorsed on or attached to the document or other written instrument.  Enacted by Chapter 155, 1988 General Session
UT Code § 57-2a-6 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 2a - Recognition of Acknowledgments Act|Section 6 - Form of certificate.

57-2a-6. Form of certificate.  The form of a certificate of acknowledgment used by a person whose authority is recognized under Section 57-2a-3 shall be accepted if:  (1) the certificate is in a form prescribed by the laws or rules of this state;     (2) the certificate is in a form prescribed by the laws or regulations applicable in the place where the acknowledgment is taken; or     (3) the certificate contains the words "acknowledged before me," or their substantial equivalent.    Enacted by Chapter 155, 1988 General Session
UT Code § 57-2a-7 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 2a - Recognition of Acknowledgments Act|Section 7 - Form of acknowledgment.

57-2a-7. Form of acknowledgment.    (1) The form of acknowledgment set forth in this section, if properly completed, is sufficient under any law of this state. It is known as "Statutory Short Form of Acknowledgment." This section does not preclude the use of other forms.State of __________ ) ) ss.County of _________ ) The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this (date) by (person acknowledging, title or representative capacity, if any). ___________________________________________  (Signature of Person Taking Acknowledgment)  (Seal) (Title)My commission expires: Residing at:____________________________________________________      (2) The phrases "My commission expires" and "Residing at" may be omitted if this information is included in the notarial seal.    Amended by Chapter 306, 2007 General Session
UT Code § 57-4a-1 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 4a - Effects of Recording|Section 1 - Document recordable despite defects.

57-4a-1. Document recordable despite defects.  Each document executed and acknowledged on or before July 1, 1988, may be recorded in the office of the county recorder regardless of any defect or irregularity in its execution, attestation, or acknowledgment.  Enacted by Chapter 155, 1988 General Session
UT Code § 57-4a-2 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 4a - Effects of Recording|Section 2 - Recorded document imparts notice of contents despite defects.

57-4a-2. Recorded document imparts notice of contents despite defects.  A recorded document imparts notice of its contents regardless of any defect, irregularity, or omission in its execution, attestation, or acknowledgment. A certified copy of a recorded document is admissible as evidence to the same extent the original document would be admissible as evidence.  Enacted by Chapter 155, 1988 General Session
UT Code § 57-4a-3 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 4a - Effects of Recording|Section 3 - Document recordable without acknowledgment.

57-4a-3. Document recordable without acknowledgment.  A document or a certified copy of a document may be recorded without acknowledgment if:  (1) it was executed under law existing at the time of execution;     (2) it evidences or affects title to real property; and     (3) it was issued under the authority of:   (a) the United States, another state, a court of record, a foreign government, or an Indian tribe; or     (b) this state or any of its political subdivisions but, any document executed under the authority of this state or any of its political subdivisions after July 1, 1988, may not be recorded unless it includes a certificate of acknowledgement or jurat.      Amended by Chapter 88, 1989 General Session
UT Code § 57-4a-4 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 4a - Effects of Recording|Section 4 - Presumptions.

57-4a-4. Presumptions.    (1) A recorded document creates the following presumptions regarding title to the real property affected:   (a) the document is genuine and was executed voluntarily by the person purporting to execute it;     (b) the person executing the document and the person on whose behalf it is executed are the persons they purport to be;     (c) the person executing the document was neither incompetent nor a minor at any relevant time;     (d) delivery occurred notwithstanding any lapse of time between dates on the document and the date of recording;     (e) any necessary consideration was given;     (f) the grantee, transferee, or beneficiary of an interest created or described by the document acted in good faith at all relevant times;     (g) a person executing a document as an agent, attorney in fact, officer of an organization, or in a fiduciary or official capacity:   (i) held the position he purported to hold and acted within the scope of his authority;     (ii) in the case of an officer of an organization, was authorized under all applicable laws to act on behalf of the organization; and     (iii) in the case of an agent, his agency was not revoked, and he acted for a principal who was neither incompetent nor a minor at any relevant time;       (h) a person executing the document as an individual:   (i) was unmarried on the effective date of the document; or     (ii) if it otherwise appears from the document that the person was married on the effective date of the document, the grantee was a bona fide purchaser and the grantor received adequate and full consideration in money or money's worth so that the joinder of the nonexecuting spouse was not required under Sections 75-2-201 through 75-2-207;       (i) if the document purports to be executed pursuant to or to be a final determination in a judicial or administrative proceeding, or to be executed pursuant to a power of eminent domain, the court, official body, or condemnor acted within its jurisdiction and all steps required for the execution of the document were taken; and     (j) recitals and other statements of fact in a document, including without limitation recitals concerning mergers or name changes of organizations, are true.       (2) The presumptions stated in Subsection (1) arise even though the document purports only to release a claim or to convey any right, title, or interest of the person executing it or the person on whose behalf it is executed.    Amended by Chapter 88, 1989 General Session
UT Code § 57-6-1 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 1 - Stay of execution of judgment of possession.

57-6-1. Stay of execution of judgment of possession.  Where an occupant of real estate has color of title to the real estate, and in good faith has made valuable improvements on the real estate, and is afterwards in a proper action found not to be the owner, no execution shall issue to put the owner in possession of the real estate after the filing of a complaint as hereinafter provided, until the provisions of this chapter have been complied with.  Amended by Chapter 299, 1995 General Session
UT Code § 57-6-2 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 2 - Claimant to commence action -- Complaint -- Trial of issues.

57-6-2. Claimant to commence action -- Complaint -- Trial of issues.  Such complaint must set forth the grounds on which the defendant seeks relief, stating as accurately as practicable the value of the real estate, exclusive of the improvements thereon made by the claimant or his grantors, and the value of such improvements. The issues joined thereon must be tried as in law actions, and the value of the real estate and of such improvements must be separately ascertained on the trial.  No Change Since 1953
UT Code § 57-6-3 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 3 - Rights of parties -- Acquiring other's interest or holding as tenants in common.

57-6-3. Rights of parties -- Acquiring other's interest or holding as tenants in common.  The plaintiff in the main action may thereupon pay the appraised value of the improvements and take the property, but should he fail to do so after a reasonable time, to be fixed by the court, the defendant may take the property upon paying its value, exclusive of the improvements. If this is not done within a reasonable time, to be fixed by the court, the parties will be held to be tenants in common of all the real estate, including the improvements, each holding an interest proportionate to the values ascertained on the trial.  No Change Since 1953
UT Code § 57-6-4 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 4 - Certain persons considered to hold under color of title.

57-6-4. Certain persons considered to hold under color of title.    (1) A purchaser in good faith at any judicial or tax sale made by the proper person or officer has color of title within the meaning of this chapter, whether or not the person or officer has sufficient authority to sell, unless the want of authority was known to the purchaser at the time of the sale.     (2)   (a) Any person has color of title who has occupied a tract of real estate by himself, or by those under whom he claims, for the term of five years, or who has occupied it for less time, if he, or those under whom he claims, have at any time during the occupancy with the knowledge or consent, express or implied, of the real owner made any valuable improvements on the real estate, or if he or those under whom he claims have at any time during the occupancy paid the ordinary county taxes on the real estate for any one year, and two years have elapsed without a repayment by the owner, and the occupancy is continued up to the time at which the action is brought by which the recovery of the real estate is obtained.     (b) The person's rights shall pass to his assignees or representatives.       (3) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to give tenants color of title against their landlords or give any person a claim under color of title to school and institutional trust lands as defined in Section 53C-1-103.    Amended by Chapter 39, 2005 General Session
UT Code § 57-6-5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 5 - Settlers under state or federal law or contract deemed occupying claimants.

57-6-5. Settlers under state or federal law or contract deemed occupying claimants.  When any person has settled upon any real estate and occupied the same for three years under or by virtue of any law or contract with the proper officers of the state for the purchase thereof, or under any law of, or by virtue of any purchase from, the United States, and shall have made valuable improvements thereon, and shall be found not to be the owner thereof, or not to have acquired a right to purchase the same from the state or the United States, such person shall be an occupying claimant within the meaning of this chapter.  No Change Since 1953
UT Code § 57-6-6 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 6 - Setoff against claim for improvements.

57-6-6. Setoff against claim for improvements.  In the cases above provided for, if the occupying claimant has committed any injury to the real estate by cutting timber, or otherwise, the plaintiff may set the same off against any claim for improvements made by the claimant.  No Change Since 1953
UT Code § 57-6-7 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 7 - When execution on judgment of possession may issue.

57-6-7. When execution on judgment of possession may issue.  The plaintiff in the main action is entitled to an execution to put him in possession of his property in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, but not otherwise.  No Change Since 1953
UT Code § 57-6-8 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 6 - Occupying Claimants|Section 8 - Improvements made by occupants of land granted to state.

57-6-8. Improvements made by occupants of land granted to state.  Any person having improvements on any real estate granted to the state in aid of any work of internal improvement, whose title thereto is questioned by another, may remove such improvements without injury otherwise to such real estate, at any time before he is evicted therefrom, or he may claim and have the benefit of this chapter by proceeding as herein directed.  No Change Since 1953
UT Code § 57-8-1 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 1 - Short title.

57-8-1. Short title.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Condominium Ownership Act."  Enacted by Chapter 111, 1963 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-2 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 2 - Applicability of chapter.

57-8-2. Applicability of chapter.  This act shall be applicable only to property which the sole owner or all the owners submit to the provisions of the act by duly executing and recording a declaration as provided in the act.  Enacted by Chapter 111, 1963 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-4 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 4 - Status of the units.

57-8-4. Status of the units.  Each unit, together with its undivided interest in the common areas and facilities, shall, for all purposes, constitute real property and may be individually conveyed, leased and encumbered and may be inherited or devised by will and be subject to all types of juridic acts inter vivos or mortis causa as if it were sole and entirely independent of all other units, and the separate units shall have the same incidents as real property, and the corresponding individual titles and interests therein shall be recordable.  Enacted by Chapter 111, 1963 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-4.5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 4.5 - Removing or altering partition or creating aperture between adjoining units.

 Effective 7/1/2014  57-8-4.5. Removing or altering partition or creating aperture between adjoining units.    (1) Subject to the declaration, a unit owner may, after acquiring an adjoining unit that shares a common wall with the unit owner's unit:   (a) remove or alter a partition between the unit owner's unit and the acquired unit, even if the partition is entirely or partly common areas and facilities; or     (b) create an aperture to the adjoining unit or portion of a unit.       (2) A unit owner may not take an action under Subsection (1) if the action would:   (a) impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems of the building or either unit;     (b) reduce the support of any portion of the common areas and facilities or another unit; or     (c) constitute a violation of Section 10-9a-608 or 17-27a-608, as applicable, a local government land use ordinance, or a building code.       (3) The management committee may require a unit owner to submit, at the unit owner's expense, a registered professional engineer's or registered architect's opinion stating that a proposed change to the unit owner's unit will not:   (a) impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems of the building or either unit;     (b) reduce the support or integrity of common areas and facilities; or     (c) compromise structural components.       (4) The management committee may require a unit owner to pay all of the legal and other expenses of the association of unit owners related to a proposed alteration to the unit or building under this section.     (5) An action under Subsection (1) does not change an assessment or voting right attributable to the unit owner's unit or the acquired unit, unless the declaration provides otherwise.    Enacted by Chapter 152, 2013 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-5 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 5 - Recognized tenancy relationships.

57-8-5. Recognized tenancy relationships.  Any unit may be held and owned by more than one person as joint tenants, or as tenants in common, or in any other real property tenancy relationship recognized under the laws of the state of Utah.  Enacted by Chapter 111, 1963 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-6 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 6 - Ownership and possession rights.

57-8-6. Ownership and possession rights.  Each unit owner shall be entitled to the exclusive ownership and possession of his unit. The owner of a time period condominium unit shall be entitled to the exclusive ownership and possession of the physical unit to which his time period relates and shall be entitled to the use and enjoyment of the common areas and facilities during, but only during, such annually recurring part or parts of a year as describe and define the time period unit concerned in the declaration.  Amended by Chapter 173, 1975 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-6.1 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 6.1 - Information required before sale to independent third party.

 Effective 5/12/2020  57-8-6.1. Information required before sale to independent third party.    (1) Before the sale of any unit under the jurisdiction of an association of unit owners to an independent third party, the grantor shall provide to the independent third party:   (a) a copy of the association of unit owners' recorded governing documents; and     (b) a link or other access point to the department's educational materials described in Subsection 57-8-13.1(6).       (2) The grantor shall provide the information described in Subsection (1) before closing.     (3) The association of unit owners shall, upon request by the grantor, provide to the grantor the information described in Subsection (1).     (4) This section applies to each association of unit owners, regardless of when the association of unit owners is formed.    Enacted by Chapter 75, 2020 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-6.3 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 6.3 - Fee for providing payoff information needed at closing.

57-8-6.3. Fee for providing payoff information needed at closing.    (1) Unless specifically authorized in the declaration, bylaws, or rules, an association of unit owners may not charge a fee for providing association payoff information needed in connection with the closing of a unit owner's financing, refinancing, or sale of the owner's unit.     (2) An association of unit owners may not:   (a) require a fee described in Subsection (1) that is authorized in the declaration, bylaws, or rules to be paid before closing; or     (b) charge the fee if it exceeds $50.       (3)   (a) An association of unit owners that fails to provide information described in Subsection (1) within five business days after the closing agent requests the information may not enforce a lien against that unit for money due to the association at closing.     (b) A request under Subsection (3)(a) is not effective unless the request:   (i) is conveyed in writing to the primary contact person designated under Subsection 57-8-13.1(3)(d);     (ii) contains:   (A) the name, telephone number, and address of the person making the request; and     (B) the facsimile number or email address for delivery of the payoff information; and       (iii) is accompanied by a written consent for the release of the payoff information:   (A) identifying the person requesting the information as a person to whom the payoff information may be released; and     (B) signed and dated by an owner of the unit for which the payoff information is requested.           (4) This section applies to each association of unit owners, regardless of when the association of unit owners is formed.    Enacted by Chapter 255, 2011 General Session
UT Code § 57-8-6.7 (2021)
2021 Utah Code|Title 57 - Real Estate|Chapter 8 - Condominium Ownership Act|Section 6.7 - Limit on fee for approval of plans.

57-8-6.7. Limit on fee for approval of plans.    (1) As used in this section:   (a) "Plan fee" means a fee that an association of unit owners charges for review and approval of unit plans.     (b) "Unit plans" means plans:   (i) for the construction or improvement of a unit; and     (ii) that are required to be approved by the association of unit owners before the unit construction or improvement may occur.         (2) An association of unit owners may not charge a plan fee that exceeds the actual cost of reviewing and approving the unit plans.    Enacted by Chapter 152, 2013 General Session