It is hereby declared to be the policy of this chapter and of the state, and the Legislature recognizes:
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Terms Used In Utah Code 57-12-2
Business: means any lawful activity, excepting a farm operation, conducted primarily:
(a)
for the purchase, sale, lease, or rental of personal or real property, and for the manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, or any other personal property;
(b)
for the sale of services to the public;
(c)
by a nonprofit organization; or
(d)
for assisting in the purchase, sale, resale, manufacture, processing, or marketing of products, commodities, personal property, or services by the erection and maintenance of an outdoor advertising display or displays, whether or not such display or displays are located on the premises on which any of the above activities are conducted. See Utah Code 57-12-3
Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
(a)
that it is often necessary for the various agencies of state and local government to acquire land by condemnation;
(b)
that persons, businesses, and farms are often uprooted and displaced by such action while being recompensed only for the value of land taken;
(c)
that such displacement often works economic hardship on those least able to suffer the added and uncompensated costs of moving, locating new homes, business sites, farms, and other costs of being relocated;
(d)
that such added expenses should reasonably be included as a part of the project cost and paid to those displaced;
(e)
that the Congress of the United States has established matching grants for relocation assistance, and has also established uniform policies for land acquisition under the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Land Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, 42 U.S.C. § 4601 et seq., to assist the states in meeting these expenses and assuring that land is fairly acquired; and
(f)
that it is in the public interest for the state to provide for such payments and to establish such land acquisition policies.
(2)
Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to establish a uniform policy for the fair and equitable treatment of persons displaced by the acquisition of real property by state and local land acquisition programs, by building code enforcement activities, or by a program of voluntary rehabilitation of buildings or other improvements conducted pursuant to governmental supervision.
(3)
All of the provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed to put into effect the foregoing policies and purposes.
