Utah Code 4-20-102. Definitions

As used in this chapter:

(1)	“Cooperative weed management association” means a multigovernmental association cooperating to control noxious weeds in a geographic area that includes some portion of Utah.

Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and food. See Utah Code 4-1-109
Land: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
Livestock: means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, mules, poultry, domesticated elk as defined in Section 4-39-102, or any other domestic animal or domestic furbearer raised or kept for profit. See Utah Code 4-1-109
United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5

(2)	“Fees” means the revenue collected by the United States secretary of interior from assessments on livestock using public lands.

(3)

“Grazing district” means an administrative unit of land:

(a)	designated by the commissioner as valuable for grazing and for raising forage crops; and

(b)

that consists of any combination of the following:

(i)	public lands;

(ii)	private land;

(iii)

state land; and

(iv)	school and institutional trust land as defined in Section 53C-1-103.

(4)	“Public lands” mean vacant, unappropriated, reserved, and unreserved federal lands.

(5)	“Regional board” means a regional grazing advisory board with members appointed under Section 4-20-104.

(6)	“Restricted account” means the Rangeland Improvement Account created in Section 4-20-105.

(7)	“Sales” or “leases” means the sale or lease, respectively, of isolated or disconnected tracts of public lands by the United States secretary of interior.

(8)	“State board” means the Utah Grazing Improvement Program Advisory Board created under Section 4-20-103.

Amended by Chapter 84, 2022 General Session
Enacted by Chapter 345, 2017 General Session