Section R653-11-2 - Definitions(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.Utah Admin. Code R653-11-2
Adopted by Utah State Bulletin Number 2022-21, effective 10/24/2022Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2023-14, effective 7/11/2023Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2024-13, effective 6/21/2024