(1) Except as otherwise provided by this section and Part 4, Defenses to Nuisance Actions, a private party has a right of action for a public nuisance against a person if: (a) the person: (i) engages in an activity that directly causes the public nuisance and the public nuisance is a reasonably foreseeable result of the person's activity; (ii) controls or instructs at least one other person to engage in an activity that directly causes the public nuisance and the public nuisance is a reasonably foreseeable result of the other person's activity; or (iii) is the successive owner of property and neglects to abate a continuing public nuisance upon, or in the use of the property, that was created by a former owner; (b) not for the person's conduct under Subsection (1)(a): (i) the public nuisance would not exist; or (ii) the private party's expenditures to abate or address the public nuisance would decrease by at least 25%; and (c) the private party can establish, by clear and convincing evidence, that the private party has suffered special injury. (2) A private party that brings a public nuisance action under Subsection (1) shall plead each element of the public nuisance action: (a) by verified complaint, counterclaim, or third party complaint; and (b) with particularity under the same standard required by Utah Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 9. (3) If a private party brings an action for a public nuisance, the court may only award compensatory damages for the special injury that may not be otherwise reimbursed, or have been reimbursed, by a government entity. (4) The abatement of a public nuisance by a government entity as described in Section
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