Section 1. Section 63G-6a-111.1 is enacted to read:63G-6a-111.1. Requirements for landscape maintenance equipment.(1)As used in this section:(a)"Electric-powered" means operated using electricity as the primary power source.(b)(i)"Landscape maintenance" means routine care of outdoor vegetation and associated elements, including mulch, gravel, flower beds, and decorative barriers.(ii)"Landscape maintenance" includes mowing, edging, trimming, fertilizing, raking, and blowing.(c)"Landscape maintenance equipment" means any device that is primarily designed for the performance of landscape maintenance.(d)"State agency" means any unit of state government, including a department, division, office, or institution of higher eduction.(e)"State government facility" means a building, structure, or other improvement that is constructed on property owned by the state or a state agency.(f)"State government grounds" means means the real property, whether fenced or unfenced, on which a state government facility is located.(2)Subject to Subsection (3), when a procurement unit procures landscape maintenance equipment to be used primarily on state government grounds, the procurement unit shall procure landscape maintenance equipment that is electric-powered if the state government grounds:(a)are located in a county of the first or second class, as classified under Section 17-60-104; and(b)consist of fewer than 50,000 square feet of property needing landscape maintenance.(3)The director of the Division of Facilities Construction and Management created in Section 63A-5b-301 may exempt a procurement from the requirements of Subsection (2) if the director determines that the landscape features of the state government grounds make the electric powered version of the landscape maintenance equipment impractical for:(a)accomplishing the task for which the landscape maintenance equipment is intended; or(b)maintaining safe conditions on the state government grounds.