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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(1) The division shall use money available to it to meet the costs of:
(a) managing forest, range, watershed, and wildland urban interface fires;
(b) managing insect and disease epidemics;
(c) rehabilitating or reforesting nonfederal forest, range, and watershed lands;
(d) promoting wildfire preparedness, wildfire mitigation, and wildfire prevention;
(e) restoring and maintaining landscapes ensuring landscapes across the state are resilient to wildfire-related disturbances, in accordance with fire management objectives;
(f) creating fire-adapted communities, ensuring that human populations and infrastructure can withstand a wildfire without loss of life or property;
(g) improving wildfire response, ensuring that all political subdivisions can participate in making and implementing safe, effective, and efficient risk-based wildfire management decisions;
(h) reducing risks to wildlife such as the greater sage grouse; and
(i) carrying on the purposes of this chapter.
(2) All money available to the division to meet the costs of Subsections (1)(a) through (i) is nonlapsing and available to the division until expended.
(3)(a) The collection and disbursement of all money made available to the division shall be in accordance with the rules of the Division of Finance.
(b) Money collected by the division from fees, rentals, sales, contributions, reimbursements, and other such sources shall be deposited in the appropriate account.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Utah Code Title 65A. Forestry, Fire, and State Lands § 65A-8-103. Forestry and fire control funds - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ut/title-65a-forestry-fire-and-state-lands/ut-code-sect-65a-8-103/
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