Utah Code § 17B-2a-207

Public highways, roads, or streets or railroad rights-of-way benefitted by district
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works.
 If a drainage district board of trustees determines that a public highway, road, street, or railroad
right-of-way is or will be benefitted by district drainage canals or other works that have been or will
be constructed:
(1) the district shall assess benefits and taxes against the public highway, road, street, or railroad
right-of-way in the same manner as if the highway, road, street, or railroad right-of-way were in
private ownership;
(2) the district may treat the highway, road, street, or railroad right-of-way the same as it would
treat private land; and
(3) the state or local entity having control of the public highway, road, or street or the owner of the
railroad right-of-way shall pay the applicable taxes assessed against the land, whether or not
it owns the fee simple title to the land covered by the highway, road, street, or railroad right-of-
way.

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