Title 28, Limitation Of Actions

(1) The following actions shall be commenced within three (3) years from the accruing of the cause of action:(1) Actions for injuries to personal or real property;(2) Actions for the detention or conversion of personal property;(3) Civil actions based upon the alleged violation o…

(1) Actions to recover money or goods lost at any kind of gambling or betting, and paid or delivered:(1) If brought by the loser, shall be commenced within ninety (90) days next after such payment or delivery;(2) If brought for the use of the spouse, child or children, or next of…

No action shall be brought on claim for usury after two (2) years from the date of the payment of the debt upon which such claim for usury shall be based.

Actions against sureties of any collecting officer, for failing to pay over money collected, when the collecting officer has made return of an execution or other process that the money is made or the process satisfied, shall be commenced within three (3) years from the return of …

(a) The following actions shall be commenced within six (6) years after the cause of action accrued:(1) Actions for the use and occupation of land and for rent;(2) Actions against the sureties of guardians, executors and administrators, sheriffs, clerks, and other public officers…

(a) The following actions shall be commenced within ten (10) years after the cause of action accrued:(1) Actions against guardians, executors, administrators, sheriffs, clerks, and other public officers on their bonds;(2) Actions on judgments and decrees of courts of record of th…

The limitations provided in this chapter do not apply to such actions as concern the trade of merchandise between merchant and merchant, their agents and factors, while the accounts between them are current.

When there are mutual accounts between persons who are not merchants, the time is computed from the true date of the last item, unless the account is liquidated and a balance struck.

Actions against any county, city, town, utility district, special school district or any other municipality or political subdivision of the state for the payment of any bond issued thereby, or for the payment of any coupon representing interest on such bond, shall be commenced wi…

(a) All actions to recover damages against any person engaged in the practice of surveying for any deficiency, defect, omission, error or miscalculation shall be brought within four (4) years from the date the survey is recorded on the plat. Any such action not instituted within …

No process of attachment, execution, sequestration, replevin, distress, subpoena or any kind of seizure, whether civil or criminal, shall be served or levied upon any work of art, as defined in this section while the same is en route to or from, or while on exhibition or deposite…

(a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Child sexual abuse” means any act set out in § 37-1-602(a)(3), that occurred when the victim was a minor;(2) “Discovery” means when the injured person becomes aware that the injury or illness was caused by ch…

(a) An owner, tenant, or lessee is not liable for injuries to a person that occur when the person is on the land of the owner, tenant, or lessee without paying to the owner, tenant, or lessee a valuable consideration for use of the land for the purpose of entering or exiting from…

(a) Notwithstanding § 28-3-104, a civil action for an injury or illness based on a sexual assault that occurred when the injured person was eighteen (18) years of age or older must be brought:(1) Within three (3) years of the sexual assault, or last act of sexual assault if in a …

(1) As used in this part, the terms set out hereinbelow are defined as follows:(1) “Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, business, trust, unincorporated organization, association or joint stock company; and(2) “Substantial completion” means that degree of comple…

With the exception of actions brought pursuant to § 28-1-114(a), all actions, arbitrations, or other binding dispute resolution proceedings to recover damages for any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision, observation of construction, or construction of an improvement t…

(a) Notwithstanding § 28-3-202, in the case of an injury to property or person or injury causing wrongful death, which injury occurred during the fourth year after substantial completion, an action, arbitration, or other binding dispute resolution proceeding to recover damages fo…

(a) This part does not extend the period or periods provided by the laws of this state or by agreement between the parties for the bringing of any action, arbitration, or other binding dispute resolution proceeding. (b) This part does not create any cause of action not previously…

(a) The limitation provided by this part must not be asserted as a defense by any person in actual possession or the control, as owner, tenant, or otherwise, of an improvement at the time any deficiency in the improvement constitutes the proximate cause of the injury or death for…

Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, if kilowatt usage is inaccurately recorded or registered due to equipment failure and results in a customer being undercharged or overcharged, and the customer is unaware of the error, defect or failure, no utility district, municipa…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if gallonage for water or sewer service or both is inaccurately recorded or registered due to equipment failure and results in the customer being undercharged or overcharged, and the customer is unaware of the error, def…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, if cubic feet for gas service is inaccurately recorded or registered due to equipment failure and results in the customer being undercharged or overcharged, and the customer is unaware of the error, defect or failure, no…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a municipality shall not refund an overpayment or collect amounts owed to the municipality as a result of an underpayment or nonpayment of any charge or fee imposed for solid waste, garbage, or refuse collection or dispo…