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Committee approves measure to help homeowners remove improperly refiled private transfer-fee liens
Summary
The committee adopted and recommended favorably the second substitute to Senate Bill 196, the Wrongful Lien Act, which treats improperly revived private transfer-fee covenants as wrongful liens and gives homeowners a mechanism to remove them; sponsors cited gaps in compliance since 2010 and a 2024 refiling requirement.
The House Political Subdivisions Committee unanimously adopted and recommended favorably a second substitute to Senate Bill 196, a measure designed to help homeowners clear private transfer-fee covenants that have been improperly re-recorded.
Court Ashton, speaking for the Utah Land Title Association, told the committee that private transfer-fee covenants created by former…
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