Utah Code § 57-9-6: Applicability of provisions.

This chapter may not be applied to:

(1) bar a lessor or the lessor's successor as a reversioner of the right to possession on the expiration of any lease;

(2) extinguish any right, title, or interest created or held for any pipeline, highway, railroad or public utility purpose;

(3) extinguish an easement or interest in the nature of an easement, the existence of which is clearly observable by physical evidence of its use;

(4) extinguish any water rights, whether evidenced by decrees, by certificates of appropriation, by diligence claims to the use of surface or underground water, or by water users' claims filed in general determination proceedings;

(5) extinguish any right, title, estate, or interest in and to minerals, and any development, mining, production or other rights or easements related to the minerals or exercisable in connection with the minerals;

(6) extinguish any right, title, or interest of the state or political subdivision of the state; or

(7) extinguish any right, title, or interest of the United States, by reason of failure to file the notice required under this chapter.