H.B. 223

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CHANGING STATE SONG
2 2003 GENERAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Sponsor: Dana C. Love
5 This act modifies the State Affairs in General title by changing the state song and
6 designating the current state song as the state hymn.
7 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
8 AMENDS:
9 63-13-5.5, as last amended by Chapter 189, Laws of Utah 2002
10 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
11 Section 1. Section 63-13-5.5 is amended to read:
12 63-13-5.5. State symbols.
13 (1) Utah's state animal is the elk.
14 (2) Utah's state bird is the sea gull.
15 (3) Utah's state centennial astronomical symbol is the Beehive Cluster located in the
16 constellation of Cancer the Crab.
17 (4) Utah's state centennial star is Dubhe, one of the seven bright stars composing the
18 Big Dipper in the constellation Ursa Major.
19 (5) Utah's state centennial tartan, which honors the first Scots known to have been in
20 Utah and those Utahns of Scottish heritage, shall have a pattern or repeating-half-sett of
21 white-2, blue-6, red-6, blue-4, red-6, green-18, red-6, and white-4 to represent the tartan worn
22 anciently by the Logan and Skene clans, with the addition of a white stripe.
23 (6) Utah's state cooking pot is the dutch oven.
24 (7) Utah's state emblem is the beehive.
25 (8) Utah's state fish is the Bonneville cutthroat trout.
26 (9) Utah's state flower is the sego lily.
27 (10) Utah's state folk dance is the square dance, the folk dance that is called, cued, or

28 prompted to the dancers and includes squares, rounds, clogging, contra, line, and heritage
29 dances.
30 (11) Utah's state fossil is the Allosaurus.
31 (12) Utah's state fruit is the cherry.
32 (13) Utah's state vegetable is the Spanish sweet onion.
33 (14) Utah's historic state vegetable is the sugar beet.
34 (15) Utah's state gem is topaz, as is prominently found in the Thomas Mountain Range
35 in Juab County, Utah.
36 (16) Utah's state grass is Indian rice grass.
37 (17) Utah's state hymn is "Utah We Love Thee" by Evan Stephens.
38 [(17)] (18) Utah's state insect is the honeybee.
39 [(18)] (19) Utah's state mineral is copper.
40 [(19)] (20) Utah's state motto is "Industry."
41 [(20)] (21) Utah's state railroad museum is Ogden Union Station.
42 [(21)] (22) Utah's state rock is coal.
43 [(22)] (23) Utah's state song is ["Utah We Love Thee" by Evan Stephens] "Utah This is
44 the Place" by Sam and Gary Francis.
45 [(23)] (24) Utah's state tree is the blue spruce.




Legislative Review Note
as of 1-27-03 8:44 AM

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

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