79-3-503 - Ownership of collections and resources. - Utah Statutes

79-3-503. Ownership of collections and resources.
(1) Collections recovered from lands owned or controlled by the state or its subdivisions,except as provided in Subsection (2), shall be owned by the state.
(2) Collections recovered from school and institutional trust lands shall be owned by therespective trust.
(3) Paleontological resources, other than critical paleontological resources, recoveredfrom school and institutional trust lands, shall be owned by the respective trust and shall bemanaged pursuant to statutory authority of the School and Institutional Trust LandsAdministration.
(4) The repository or curation facility for collections from lands owned or controlled bythe state or its subdivisions shall be designated pursuant to Section 53B-17-603.
(5) Specimens found on lands owned or controlled by the state or its subdivisions maynot be sold.

Renumbered and Amended by Chapter 344, 2009 General Session