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Jeremy Lyman
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Jeremy Lyman


Jeremy Lyman is Director of the Center for Private Property. For the past nine years he has held a real estate license in the State of Utah and has served on the board of directors for the Salt Lake Board of Realtors®, the Utah Association of Realtors®, and the National Association of Realtors®. He is currently the CEO for Blue Mountain Hospital, a Critical Access Hospital located in Blanding, Utah.

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Property Rights
Property Rights

Directive 10-289: A Threat to Property Rights


“What [government does] is either hurtful or profitless, injurious or ineffectual.  It never can bring any useful result.” —Frederic Bastiat The Salt Lake City Council is proposing to increase the scope of government...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 9th Apr '14
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Property Rights
Property Rights

Cedar Hills Assumes Control of All Rental Properties


In a recent letter to property owners who rent out their property, the city of Cedar Hills, Utah announced a new ordinance (Title 3-Chapter 1-Article H:Rental Dwelling Unit) that requires these individuals to seek the permission...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 9th Dec '13
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Property Rights
Property Rights

Planning Commissions: Proper Role of Local Government?


A recent article tells of a Woods Cross man who was seeking permission to enter into peaceful commercial transactions.  He intended to sell firearms out of his home—an intent to which many of his neighbors strongly objected....

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 10th Jul '13
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Property Rights
Property Rights

Occupy Volunteerism: A Model for Free, Charity Health Care


In recent weeks a number of tragedies have befallen people who I know.  I have been witness to the incredible goodness that exists in people as friends, neighbors, and others have stepped up to support and help those who needed...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 9th Apr '13
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Property Rights
Property Rights

Permission Slips to Exercise Fundamental Rights


Article 1 Section 6 of Utah’s constitution states, “The individual right of the people to keep and bear arms for security and defense of self, family, others, property, or the state, as well as for other lawful...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 22nd Mar '13
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Free Market
Free Market

Utah Drunk With Power


Undercover agents from the state liquor-control agency are busy conducting sting operations throughout the Wasatch Front.  It reminds me of the days of prohibition when the FBI battled it out with gangsters like the infamous Al...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 11th Jan '13
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The Right to Bear Arms


The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence begins with this: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by the Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 4th Jan '13
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‘Twas the Night Before the Fiscal Cliff


‘Twas the night before the Fiscal Cliff, and all throughout the House, Few stood on principle, most cowered like a mouse; The reality seems obvious; we’re free-falling off the cliff, Why this is so hard for them to see has...

  • Jeremy Lyman
  • 14th Dec '12
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Property Rights
Property Rights

None of Your Beeswax!


According to Utah Administrative Code R68-1, “Every owner or person coming into possession of one or more colonies of bees within the State of Utah shall register with the Department of Agriculture and Food…”...

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  • 10th Dec '12
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Property Rights

Liberty IS Violated: Highland Business Closure is Illegitimate


In July we published a post urging Highland City residents to oppose efforts to reinstate a city ordinance restricting the right of private individuals and businesses to engage in peaceful commerce on Sunday.  I argued then that...

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  • 5th Nov '12
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