Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R653 - Water Resources
Rule R653-11 - Water Conservation Requirements and Incentives
Section R653-11-2 - Definitions
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 653-11-2
Current through Bulletin 2024-18, September 15, 2024
(1) Terms used in this rule and not otherwise defined in this section are defined in Subsections 63A-5b-1108(1) and 73-10-37(1).
(2) As used in this section:
(a) "District" means a water conservancy
district, as that term is defined in Section
73-10-32.
(b) "Division" means the Division of Water
Resources.
(c) "Landscaping
conversion incentive program" means a program administered by a district that
pays an owner a financial incentive to remove lawn from a project area on land
owned by the owner.
(d) "Program
guidelines" means guidelines adopted by a district for the district's
landscaping conversion incentive program.
(e) "Outdoor water use" means water used for
outdoor landscape irrigation and ornamental landscape water features.
(f) "Owner" means a person or entity that
holds legal or rightful title, or a controlling interest in that title, to
private or public nonagricultural land where a water end user is located.
(i) Applicant is an owner that applies to the
division or a district for a financial incentive to convert lawn to water
efficient landscaping.
(ii)
Participant is an owner that executes a contract with the division or a
district for a financial incentive to convert lawn to water efficient
landscaping.
(g) "Drip
irrigation system" means a system of narrow distribution tubes or pipes that
deliver water from a dedicated low pressure supply valve to individual plants
and trees through drip emitters. Drip emitters do not include micro spray,
fogger, or bubbler emitters.
(h)
"Lawn" means nonagricultural land planted in closely mowed, managed grasses,
excluding golf courses, parks, athletic fields, and sod farms.
(i) "Nonagricultural land" means privately or
publicly owned real property immediately surrounding a home, apartment, office
building, or similar structure routinely occupied by people for dwelling,
business, employment, or recreation; and that is not used to grow crops or to
hold, house, or feed livestock.
(j)
"Project area" means the area from which lawn is removed and replaced with
water efficient landscaping under Sections
73-10-37, R653-11-7, and
R653-11-8.
(k) "Water end user"
means a person or entity that contracts with a retail water provider to obtain
water for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use.
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