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Utah law already bans most "transfer fee covenants" — agreements that require a fee to be paid every time a property changes hands — but some older covenants recorded before 2010 were allowed to continue if the holder filed proper notices. This bill expands the legal definition of a "wrongful lien" to include transfer fee covenant notices that were recorded when the underlying covenant was already unenforceable — for example, because a mortgage with higher priority was foreclosed, because the required notice was never properly filed, or because the covenant had already been terminated. If a transfer fee covenant notice qualifies as a wrongful lien under this expanded definition, that notice is legally invalid. The bill also clarifies that county recorders are not responsible for determining whether such a notice is a wrongful lien. Homeowners who may have had an unenforceable transfer fee covenant improperly recorded against their property gain a clearer legal path to challenge it, potentially freeing them from fees that should never have applied to their home sale.