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Weber County commissioners debate guardrail-removal agreement, weigh liability protections
Summary
Commissioners discussed a draft agreement letting Powder Mountain property owners remove roadside guardrail if they indemnify the county; some favored requiring insurance naming Weber County as additional insured, while others urged deferring until roads are privatized.
Commissioners at a Weber County work session on Nov. 24 discussed a proposed agreement that would allow property owners at Powder Mountain to remove sections of roadside guardrail in exchange for legal releases and indemnification.
An unidentified staff member working with county counsel described the draft as seeking "basically protection, indemnification" so that "if somebody errantly leave[s] the road and where the guardrail was removed ... claims would go to the individual who had asked for the guardrail to be removed." The draft also calls for property owners to address stormwater…
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