63F-1-102 - Definitions. - Utah Statutes

63F-1-102. Definitions.
As used in this title:
(1) "Board" means the Technology Advisory Board created in Section 63F-1-202.
(2) "Chief information officer" means the chief information officer appointed underSection 63F-1-201.
(3) "Commission" means the Utah Technology Commission created in Section63D-1a-201.
(4) "Computer center" means the location at which a central data processing platform ismanaged to serve multiple executive branch agencies.
(5) "Data center" means a centralized repository for the storage, management, anddissemination of data.
(6) "Department" means the Department of Technology Services.
(7) (a) Except as provided in Subsection (7)(b), "executive branch agency" means anagency or administrative subunit of state government.
(b) "Executive branch agency" does not include:
(i) the legislative branch;
(ii) the judicial branch;
(iii) the State Board of Education;
(iv) the Board of Regents;
(v) institutions of higher education;
(vi) independent entities as defined in Section 63E-1-102; and
(vii) elective constitutional offices of the executive department which includes:
(A) the state auditor;
(B) the state treasurer; and
(C) the attorney general.
(8) "Executive branch strategic plan" means the executive branch strategic plan createdunder Section 63F-1-203.
(9) "Information technology" means all computerized and auxiliary automatedinformation handling, including:
(a) systems design and analysis;
(b) acquisition, storage, and conversion of data;
(c) computer programming;
(d) information storage and retrieval;
(e) voice, radio, video, and data communications;
(f) requisite systems controls;
(g) simulation; and
(h) all related interactions between people and machines.
(10) "State information architecture" means a logically consistent set of principles,policies, and standards that guide the engineering of state government's information technologyand infrastructure in a way that ensures alignment with state government's business and serviceneeds.
(11) "Telecommunications" means the transmission or reception of signs, signals,writing, images, sounds, messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire, radio, lightwaves, or other electromagnetic means.

Enacted by Chapter 169, 2005 General Session