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S.B. 154 Enrolled

    

CHANGES TO DIVISION OF STATE HISTORY

    
1997 GENERAL SESSION

    
STATE OF UTAH

    
Sponsor: LeRay McAllister

    AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; AMENDING
    THE DUTIES OF THE DIVISION OF STATE HISTORY TO INCLUDE THE
    CREATION OF AN INVENTORY OF CEMETERIES IN THE STATE;
    APPROPRIATING $9,000 FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO THE DIVISION OF
    STATE HISTORY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997-98; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
    DATE.
    This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
    AMENDS:
         9-8-203, as last amended by Chapter 256, Laws of Utah 1993
    Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
        Section 1. Section 9-8-203 is amended to read:
         9-8-203. Division duties.
        (1) The division shall:
        (a) stimulate research, study, and activity in the field of Utah history and related history;
        (b) maintain a specialized history library;
        (c) mark and preserve historic sites, areas, and remains;
        (d) collect, preserve, and administer historical records relating to the history of Utah;
        (e) administer, collect, preserve, document, interpret, develop, and exhibit historical
    artifacts, documentary materials, and other objects relating to the history of Utah for educational
    and cultural purposes;
        (f) edit and publish historical records;
        (g) cooperate with local, state, and federal agencies and schools and museums to provide
    coordinated and organized activities for the collection, documentation, preservation, interpretation,
    and exhibition of historical artifacts related to the state;
        (h) provide grants and technical assistance as necessary and appropriate; and


        (i) comply with the procedures and requirements of Title 63, Chapter 46b, Administrative
    Procedures Act, in its adjudicative proceedings.
        (2) The division may acquire or produce reproductions of historical artifacts and
    documentary materials for educational and cultural use.
        (3) To promote an appreciation of Utah history and to increase heritage tourism in the state,
    the division shall:
        (a) (i) create and maintain an inventory of all historic markers and monuments that are
    accessible to the public throughout the state;
        [(b)] (ii) enter into cooperative agreements with other groups and organizations to collect
    and maintain the information needed for the inventory;
        [(c)] (iii) encourage the use of volunteers to help collect the information and to maintain the
    inventory;
        [(d)] (iv) publicize the information in the inventory in a variety of forms and media,
    especially to encourage Utah citizens and tourists to visit the markers and monuments;
        [(e)] (v) work with public and private landowners, heritage organizations, and volunteer
    groups to help maintain, repair, and landscape around the markers and monuments; and
        [(f)] (vi) make the inventory available upon request to all other public and private history
    and heritage organizations, tourism organizations and businesses, and others[.]; and
        (b) (i) create and maintain an inventory of all active and inactive cemeteries throughout the
    state;
        (ii) enter into cooperative agreements with local governments and other groups and
    organizations to collect and maintain the information needed for the inventory;
        (iii) encourage the use of volunteers to help collect the information and to maintain the
    inventory;
        (iv) encourage cemetery owners to create and maintain geographic information systems to
    record burial sites and encourage volunteers to do so for inactive and small historic cemeteries;
        (v) publicize the information in the inventory in a variety of forms and media, especially to
    encourage Utah citizens to participate in the care and upkeep of historic cemeteries;

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        (vi) work with public and private cemeteries, heritage organizations, genealogical groups,
    and volunteer groups to help maintain, repair, and landscape cemeteries, grave sites, and tombstones;
    and
        (vii) make the inventory available upon request to all other public and private history and
    heritage organizations, tourism organizations and businesses, and others.
        (4) This chapter may not be construed to authorize the division to acquire by purchase any
    historical artifacts, documentary materials, or specimens that are restricted from sale by federal law
    or the laws of any state, territory, or foreign nation.
        Section 2. Appropriation.
        There is appropriated from the General Fund $9,000 for fiscal year 1997-98 to the Division
    of State History to create and maintain an inventory of all cemeteries throughout the state.
        Section 3. Effective date.
        This act takes effect on July 1, 1997.

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