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STATE SYMBOL RECODIFICATION
2001 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: Loraine T. Pace
Stephen H. Urquhart
Richard M. Siddoway
Ron Bigelow
David Clark

This act modifies sections relating to state symbols by recodifying state symbols into one
section and making technical corrections.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
ENACTS:
63-13-5.5, Utah Code Annotated 1953
REPEALS:
63-13-6, Utah Code Annotated 1953
63-13-7, Utah Code Annotated 1953
63-13-7.1, as enacted by Chapter 213, Laws of Utah 1969
63-13-7.2, as enacted by Chapter 160, Laws of Utah 1971
63-13-7.3, as last amended by Chapter 109, Laws of Utah 1997
63-13-7.4, as enacted by Chapter 29, Laws of Utah 1991
63-13-7.5, as enacted by Chapter 67, Laws of Utah 1997
63-13-7.6, as enacted by Chapter 141, Laws of Utah 1997
63-13-8, Utah Code Annotated 1953
63-13-8.1, as enacted by Chapter 237, Laws of Utah 1994
63-13-8.2, as enacted by Chapter 57, Laws of Utah 1996
63-13-9, as enacted by Chapter 134, Laws of Utah 1955
63-13-10, as enacted by Chapter 122, Laws of Utah 1959
63-13-11, as enacted by Chapter 123, Laws of Utah 1959
63-13-11.4, as enacted by Chapter 254, Laws of Utah 1994
63-13-11.5, as enacted by Chapter 309, Laws of Utah 1983
63-13-11.7, as enacted by Chapter 147, Laws of Utah 1988

63-13-11.8, as enacted by Chapter 209, Laws of Utah 1990
63-13-11.9, as enacted by Chapter 9, Laws of Utah 1988
63-13-11.10, as enacted by Chapter 29, Laws of Utah 1996
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 63-13-5.5 is enacted to read:
63-13-5.5. State symbols.
(1) Utah's state animal is the elk.
(2) Utah's state bird is the sea gull.
(3) Utah's state centennial astronomical symbol is the Beehive Cluster located in the
constellation of Cancer the Crab.
(4) Utah's state centennial star is Dubhe, one of the seven bright stars composing the Big
Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major.
(5) Utah's state centennial tartan, which honors the first Scots known to have been in Utah
and those Utahns of Scottish heritage, shall have a pattern or repeating-half-sett of white-2, blue-6,
red-6, blue-4, red-6, green-18, red-6, and white-4 to represent the tartan worn anciently by the Logan
and Skene clans, with the addition of a white stripe.
(6) Utah's state cooking pot is the dutch oven.
(7) Utah's state emblem is the beehive.
(8) Utah's state fish is the Bonneville cutthroat trout.
(9) Utah's state flower is the sego lily.
(10) Utah's state folk dance is the square dance, the folk dance that is called, cued, or
prompted to the dancers and includes squares, rounds, clogging, contra, line, and heritage dances.
(11) Utah's state fossil is the Allosaurus.
(12) Utah's state fruit is the cherry.
(13) Utah's state gem is topaz, as is prominently found in the Thomas Mountain Range in
Juab County, Utah.
(14) Utah's state grass is Indian rice grass.
(15) Utah's state insect is the honeybee.

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(16) Utah's state mineral is copper.
(17) Utah's state motto is "Industry."
(18) Utah's state railroad museum is Ogden Union Station.
(19) Utah's state rock is coal.
(20) Utah's state song is "Utah We Love Thee" by Evan Stephens.
(21) Utah's state tree is the blue spruce.
Section 2. Repealer.
This act repeals:
Section 63-13-6, State flower.
Section 63-13-7, State tree.
Section 63-13-7.1, State gem.
Section 63-13-7.2, State animal.
Section 63-13-7.3, State fish.
Section 63-13-7.4, State rock.
Section 63-13-7.5, State fruit.
Section 63-13-7.6, State cooking pot.
Section 63-13-8, State song.
Section 63-13-8.1, State folk dance.
Section 63-13-8.2, State Centennial tartan.
Section 63-13-9, Sea gull.
Section 63-13-10, State emblem.
Section 63-13-11, State motto.
Section 63-13-11.4, State mineral.
Section 63-13-11.5, State insect.
Section 63-13-11.7, State fossil.
Section 63-13-11.8, State grass.
Section 63-13-11.9, Designation of railroad museum.
Section 63-13-11.10, State centennial star and astronomical symbol.

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