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  • (1) "Account" means the School and Institutional Trust Fund Management Account, created in Section 53D-1-203.
  • (2) "Advocacy office director" means the director of the Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Office, appointed under Section 53D-2-203.
  • (3) "Beneficiaries":
    • (a) means those for whose benefit the trust fund is managed and preserved, consistent with the enabling act, the Utah Constitution, and state law; and
    • (b) does not include other government institutions or agencies, the public at large, or the general welfare of the state.
  • (4) "Board" means the board of trustees established in Section 53D-1-301.
  • (5) "Director" means the director of the office.
  • (6) "Enabling act" means the act of Congress, dated July 16, 1894, enabling the people of Utah to form a constitution and state government and to be admitted into the Union.
  • (7) "Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Office" or "advocacy office" means the Land Trusts Protection and Advocacy Office created in Section 53D-2-201.
  • (8) "Nominating committee" means the committee established under Section 53D-1-501.
  • (9) "Office" means the School and Institutional Trust Fund Office, created in Section 53D-1-201.
  • (10) "Trust fund" means money derived from:
    • (a) the sale or use of land granted to the state under Sections 6, 8, and 12 of the enabling act;
    • (b) proceeds referred to in Section 9 of the enabling act from the sale of public land; and
    • (c) revenue and assets referred to in Utah Constitution, Article X, Section 5, Subsections (1)(c), (e), and (f).




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