THE FINAL HOURS ARE HERE!! ACT NOW!

March 1, 2010 in article | No comments

IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS WE COULD LOOSE WHAT THE CONSTITUTION AND SUPREME COURTS GAVE THE PUBLIC, STREAM USE!!!

CALL YOUR SENATOR.. many are reporting that they will not show. A few reports indicated they ARE NOT READING your emails, they are being asked to purge them… SO CALL

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Talking points from Representative Fowlke

The Public Trust Doctrine

a. The ‘public trust’ doctrine, the roots of which can be traced to the Magna Carta and even Roman law, has been recognized in most jurisdictions of the United States. It provides that public lands and waters are held in trust by the state for the benefit of the public. It prohibits the disposal of public lands and waters or the restriction of access to or use of public lands and waters except as necessary to further the public’s interests in those lands and waters.

b. The principles of the public trust doctrine have long been recognized in Utah case law and have even been codified in part. For example, the beds of Utah’s navigable rivers and streams are sovereign public lands – Utah Code Ann. 65A-1-1(5) – and, as such, they are subject to the public trust doctrine – Utah Code Ann. 65A-1-1(4). The public has the right to access to these beds for the purpose of hunting, trapping or fishing. Utah Code Ann. 23-21-4(1). HB141 ignores these provisions of Utah law.

c. HB141 violates the ‘public trust’ doctrine, as codified by state law and otherwise, by effectively prohibiting or unreasonably restricting public access to the beds of Utah’s navigable rivers and streams.

> Art. I, Sect. 23 of the Utah Constitution reads:No law shall be passed granting irrevocably any franchise, privilege or immunity.

HB141 violates Art. 1, Sect. 23 by granting to or recognizing in private landowners an irrevocable franchise for or privilege of exclusive use of public waters and public lands held in trust for people of the State of Utah

^{Luz Robles}⁽^D)^{Minority Caucus Mgr

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^{Ben McAdams}^(D)^{bmcadams@utahsenate.org

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^{Gene Davis}^(D)^{gdavis@utahsenate.org

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^{Patricia W. Jones}^(D)^{Minority Leader

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^{Karen Mayne}^(D)^{Assistant Minority Whip

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^{Michael G. Waddoups}^(R)^{President of the Senate

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^{Ross I. Romero}^(D)^{Minority Whip}

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^{Karen W. Morgan}^(D)

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^{Wayne Niederhauser}^(R)^{Majority Whip

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^{D. Chris Buttars}^(R)

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^{Howard A. Stephenson}^(R)^{hstephenson@utahsenate.org}

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^{Mark B. Madsen}^(R)^{mmadsen@utahsenate.org}

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^{Peter C. Knudson}^(R)^{Majority Assistant Whip

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^{Scott K. Jenkins (}^R)^{Majority Leader

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^{Jerry W. Stevenson}^(R)^{jstevenson@utahsenate.org}

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^{Stuart Adams}^(R)^{sadams@utahsenate.org}

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^{Daniel R. Liljenquist}^(R)^{dliljenquist@utahsenate.org}

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