2016 Utah Code
Title 4 - Utah Agricultural Code
Chapter 20 - Rangeland Improvement Act
Section 1 - Title -- Definitions.

4-20-1. Title -- Definitions.

• (1) This chapter is known as the "Rangeland Improvement Act."

• (2) As used in this chapter:
  • (a) "Cooperative weed management association" means a multigovernmental association cooperating together to control noxious weeds in a geographic area that includes some portion of Utah.
  • (b) "Fees" mean the revenue collected by the United States Secretary of Interior from assessments on livestock using public lands.
  • (c) "Grazing district" means an administrative unit of land:
    • (i) designated by the commissioner as being valuable for grazing and for raising forage crops; and
    • (ii) which consists of any combination of the following:
      • (A) public land;
      • (B) private land;
      • (C) state land; and
      • (D) school and institutional trust land as defined in Section 53C-1-103.
  • (d) "Public lands" mean vacant, unappropriated, reserved, and unreserved federal lands.
  • (e) "Regional board" means a regional grazing advisory board whose members are appointed under Section 4-20-1.6.
  • (f) "Restricted account" means the Rangeland Improvement Account created in Section 4-20-2.
  • (g) "Sales" or "leases" mean the sale or lease, respectively, of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands by the United States Secretary of Interior.
  • (h) "State board" means the State Grazing Advisory Board created under Section 4-20-1.5.

Amended by Chapter 278, 2010 General Session