9-6-201. Division of Arts and Museums -- Creation -- Powers and duties.
(1) There is created within the department the Division of Arts and Museums under the
administration and general supervision of the executive director or the designee of the executive
director.
(2) The division shall be under the policy direction of the board.
(3) The division shall advance the interests of the arts, in all their phases, within the
state, and to that end shall:
(a) cooperate with and locally sponsor federal agencies and projects directed to similar
undertakings;
(b) develop the influence of arts in education;
(c) involve the private sector, including businesses, charitable interests, educational
interests, manufacturers, agriculturalists, and industrialists in these endeavors;
(d) utilize broadcasting facilities and the power of the press in disseminating
information; and
(e) foster, promote, encourage, and facilitate, not only a more general and lively study of
the arts, but take all necessary and useful means to stimulate a more abundant production of an
indigenous art in this state.
(4) The board shall set policy to guide the division in accomplishing the purposes set
forth in Subsection (3).
(5) The division may not grant funds for the support of any arts project under this section
unless the project has been first approved by the board.
Amended by Chapter 24, 2006 General Session
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