Public Utility Easement Utah Form
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Easements are attached to the land and are normally created by deed. They may also be registered on the title as held by the Land Registry. They are often considered to last in perpetuity but can be extinguished and some may also be time limited.
(b) "Public utility easement" means the area on a recorded plat map or other recorded document that is dedicated to the use and installation of public utility facilities.
PUE stands for Public Utility Easement. Like other easements, a PUE grants certain rights to the owner of the easement.
In order for an easement deed to be considered for recordation by a county recorder in Utah, it must be signed and acknowledged by the grantor and accompanied by a certificate of acknowledgment or proof of execution that is signed by the officer taking the acknowledgment (57-3-101).
A prescriptive easement is an easement created from an open, adverse, and continuous use over a statutory period, which in Utah is 20 years. Once a claimant has shown an open and continuous use of the land under claim of right for the twenty-year prescriptive period, the use will be presumed to have been adverse.