H.B. 20

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STATE SYMBOL RECODIFICATION
2 2001 GENERAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Sponsor: Loraine T. Pace
5 This act modifies sections relating to state symbols by recodifying state symbols into one
6 section and making technical corrections.
7 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
8 ENACTS:
9 63-13-5.5, Utah Code Annotated 1953
10 REPEALS:
11 63-13-6, Utah Code Annotated 1953
12 63-13-7, Utah Code Annotated 1953
13 63-13-7.1, as enacted by Chapter 213, Laws of Utah 1969
14 63-13-7.2, as enacted by Chapter 160, Laws of Utah 1971
15 63-13-7.3, as last amended by Chapter 109, Laws of Utah 1997
16 63-13-7.4, as enacted by Chapter 29, Laws of Utah 1991
17 63-13-7.5, as enacted by Chapter 67, Laws of Utah 1997
18 63-13-7.6, as enacted by Chapter 141, Laws of Utah 1997
19 63-13-8, Utah Code Annotated 1953
20 63-13-8.1, as enacted by Chapter 237, Laws of Utah 1994
21 63-13-8.2, as enacted by Chapter 57, Laws of Utah 1996
22 63-13-9, as enacted by Chapter 134, Laws of Utah 1955
23 63-13-10, as enacted by Chapter 122, Laws of Utah 1959
24 63-13-11, as enacted by Chapter 123, Laws of Utah 1959
25 63-13-11.4, as enacted by Chapter 254, Laws of Utah 1994
26 63-13-11.5, as enacted by Chapter 309, Laws of Utah 1983
27 63-13-11.7, as enacted by Chapter 147, Laws of Utah 1988

28 63-13-11.8, as enacted by Chapter 209, Laws of Utah 1990
29 63-13-11.9, as enacted by Chapter 9, Laws of Utah 1988
30 63-13-11.10, as enacted by Chapter 29, Laws of Utah 1996
31 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
32 Section 1. Section 63-13-5.5 is enacted to read:
33 63-13-5.5. State symbols.
34 (1) Utah's state animal is the elk.
35 (2) Utah's state bird is the sea gull.
36 (3) Utah's state centennial astronomical symbol is the Beehive Cluster located in the
37 constellation of Cancer the Crab.
38 (4) Utah's state centennial star is Dubhe, one of the seven bright stars composing the Big
39 Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major.
40 (5) Utah's state centennial tartan, which honors the first Scots known to have been in Utah
41 and those Utahns of Scottish heritage, shall have a pattern or repeating-half-sett of white-2, blue-6,
42 red-6, blue-4, red-6, green-18, red-6, and white-4 to represent the tartan worn anciently by the
43 Logan and Skene clans, with the addition of a white stripe.
44 (6) Utah's state cooking pot is the dutch oven.
45 (7) Utah's state emblem is the beehive.
46 (8) Utah's state fish is the Bonneville cutthroat trout.
47 (9) Utah's state flower is the sego lily.
48 (10) Utah's state folk dance is the square dance, the folk dance that is called, cued, or
49 prompted to the dancers and includes squares, rounds, clogging, contra, line, and heritage dances.
50 (11) Utah's state fossil is the Allosaurus.
51 (12) Utah's state fruit is the cherry.
52 (13) Utah's state gem is topaz, as is prominently found in the Thomas Mountain Range in
53 Juab County, Utah.
54 (14) Utah's state grass is Indian rice grass.
55 (15) Utah's state insect is the honeybee.
56 (16) Utah's state mineral is copper.
57 (17) Utah's state motto is "Industry."
58 (18) Utah's state railroad museum is Ogden Union Station.

59 (19) Utah's state rock is coal.
60 (20) Utah's state song is "Utah We Love Thee" by Evan Stephens.
61 (21) Utah's state tree is the blue spruce.
62 Section 2. Repealer.
63 This act repeals:
64 Section 63-13-6, State flower.
65 Section 63-13-7, State tree.
66 Section 63-13-7.1, State gem.
67 Section 63-13-7.2, State animal.
68 Section 63-13-7.3, State fish.
69 Section 63-13-7.4, State rock.
70 Section 63-13-7.5, State fruit.
71 Section 63-13-7.6, State cooking pot.
72 Section 63-13-8, State song.
73 Section 63-13-8.1, State folk dance.
74 Section 63-13-8.2, State Centennial tartan.
75 Section 63-13-9, Sea gull.
76 Section 63-13-10, State emblem.
77 Section 63-13-11, State motto.
78 Section 63-13-11.4, State mineral.
79 Section 63-13-11.5, State insect.
80 Section 63-13-11.7, State fossil.
81 Section 63-13-11.8, State grass.
82 Section 63-13-11.9, Designation of railroad museum.
83 Section 63-13-11.10, State centennial star and astronomical symbol.

Legislative Review Note
as of 11-15-00 4:22 PM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel

Committee Note

The Government Operations Interim Committee recommended this bill.