{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-79-9-203","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 79-9-203","heading":"Use of outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding.","body":"(1) An eligible county that receives grant funding under Section 79-9-201:\n(a) shall use grant funding:\n(i) to pay for any present or ongoing visitor-related emergency costs or visitor-related safety costs;\n(ii) to reimburse a provider of search and rescue efforts or emergency medical services for any past, unpaid services within the eligible county;\n(iii) to support the activities of a special district providing search and rescue efforts, emergency medical services, solid waste disposal, or road repair;\n(iv) as proposed in the eligible county's or eligible special district's application for grant funding;\n(b) shall report to the division on the expenditures made with the grant funding by December 31 of each year in which grant funding is received or is unexpended;\n(c) may not use grant funding to:\n(i) supplant existing funds; or\n(ii) purchase real property or make payments toward the ownership or leasing of real property.\n(2) If a grantee does not expend or encumber the funding within 18 months of the day on which the funding was received by the grantee due to a lack of need within the eligible county, the grantee:\n(a) shall inform the division regarding the remaining grant funding;\n(b) may retain the remaining grant funding until fully expended unless required by the division to return the remaining grant funding to the division; and\n(c) may not apply for a new outdoor recreation mitigation grant until the grant funding is fully expended or returned.\n(3) Upon receipt of unexpended outdoor recreation mitigation grant funding from a grantee, the division shall deposit the unexpended grant funding into the Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grant Fund created in Section 79-9-103.","path":["Title 79 Natural Resources","Chapter 79-9 Mitigating the Direct Impacts of Tourism and Outdoor Recreation","Part 79-9-2 Outdoor Recreation Mitigation Grants"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title79/Chapter9/79-9-S203.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:34Z","sha256":"4da7625713e8130bd0fb4eede12d7f5e6304cd2fa03fad58e1ac36ae8a35af7b","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-79-9-202","next":"us-ut/utah-code-79-9-301"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}