Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 4 > Chapter 18 > Part 3 - Utah Soil Health Program

• Advertisement: means a representation, other than by labeling, made to induce the purchase of food. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Commission: means the Conservation Commission created in Section 4-18-104. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and food. See Utah Code 4-1-109
• Commissioner: means the commissioner of agriculture and food or the commissioner's designee. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Consumer commodity: means a food, as defined by this chapter, or by the federal act. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Contaminated: means not securely protected from dust, dirt, or foreign or injurious agents. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Department: means the Department of Agriculture and Food created in Chapter 2, Administration. See Utah Code 4-1-109
• Donor: The person who makes a gift.
• Eligible entities: means public, governmental, and private entities, including:
       (6)(a) conservation districts;
       (6)(b) producers;
       (6)(c) groups of producers;
       (6)(d) producer groups;
       (6)(e) producer cooperatives;
       (6)(f) water conservancy districts;
       (6)(g) American Indian Tribes;
       (6)(h) nonprofit entities;
       (6)(i) academic or research institutions and subdivisions of these institutions;
       (6)(j) the United States or any corporation or agency created or designed by the United States; or
       (6)(k) the state or any of the state's agencies or political subdivisions. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Environmental benefits: means benefits to natural and agricultural resources and human health, including:
       (7)(a) improved air quality;
       (7)(b) surface or ground water quality and quantity;
       (7)(c) improved soil health, including nutrient cycling, soil fertility, or drought resilience;
       (7)(d) reductions in agricultural inputs;
       (7)(e) carbon sequestration or climate resilience;
       (7)(f) increased biodiversity; or
       (7)(g) improved nutritional quality of agricultural products. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Farm: means an agricultural operation, under management by one entity, that grows or harvests crops. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Farm: means the land, buildings, support facilities, and other equipment that are wholly or partially used for the commercial production of animals or animal products used for food. See Utah Code 4-4a-102
• Farmers market: means a market where a producer of a food product sells only a fresh, raw, whole, unprocessed, and unprepared food item directly to the final consumer. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Federal act: means the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, Utah Code 4-5-102
• Food: means :
       (8)(a) an article used for food or drink for human or animal consumption or the components of the article;
       (8)(b) chewing gum or chewing gum components; or
       (8)(c) a food supplement for special dietary use that is necessitated because of a physical, physiological, pathological, or other condition. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Food additive: includes a substance or source of radiation intended for use in producing, manufacturing, packing, processing, preparing, treating, packaging, transporting, or holding food. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Food establishment: means a grocery store, bakery, candy factory, food processor, bottling plant, sugar factory, cannery, farm, rabbit processor, meat processor, flour mill, cold or dry warehouse storage, or other facility where food products are manufactured, canned, processed, packaged, stored, transported, prepared, sold, or offered for sale. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
• Incentives: means monetary incentives, including grants and loans, or non-monetary incentives, including equipment, technical assistance, educational materials, outreach, and market development assistance for market premiums or ecosystem services markets. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Label: means a written, printed, or graphic display on the immediate container of an article of food. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Labeling: means a label and other written, printed, or graphic display:
       (12)(a) on an article of food or the article of food's container or wrapper; or
       (12)(b) accompanying the article of food. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Land: includes :
       (18)(a) land;
       (18)(b) a tenement;
       (18)(c) a hereditament;
       (18)(d) a water right;
       (18)(e) a possessory right; and
       (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Land manager: means a manager of land where agricultural activities occur, including:
       (11)(a) a federal land manager;
       (11)(b) a lessee of federal, tribal, state, county, municipal, or private land where agricultural activities occur; or
       (11)(c) others as the department may determine. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Landowner: means an owner of record of federal, tribal, state, county, municipal, or private land where agricultural activities occur. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Livestock: means cattle, sheep, goats, swine, horses, mules, poultry, domesticated elk as defined in Section 4-39-102, or any other domestic animal or domestic furbearer raised or kept for profit. See Utah Code 4-1-109
• Man: means an adult human male. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Month: means a calendar month, unless otherwise expressed. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Organization: means a corporation, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, two or more persons having a joint or common interest, or any other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Package: means a container or wrapping in which a consumer commodity is enclosed for use in the delivery or display of the consumer commodity to retail purchasers. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Person: means a natural person or individual, corporation, organization, or other legal entity. See Utah Code 4-1-109
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Pesticide: means a substance intended:
            (15)(a)(i) to prevent, destroy, repel, or mitigate a pest, as defined under Section 4-14-102; or
            (15)(a)(ii) for use as a plant regulator, defoliant, or desiccant. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Principal display panel: means that part of a label that is most likely to be displayed, presented, shown, or examined under normal and customary conditions of display for retail sale. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Produce: means a food that is a:
       (17)(a) fruit, vegetable, mix of intact fruits and vegetables, mushroom, sprout from any seed source, peanut, tree nut, or herb; and
       (17)(b) raw agricultural commodity. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• product of agriculture: means any product that is derived from agriculture, including any product derived from aquaculture as defined in Section 4-37-103. See Utah Code 4-1-109
• Program: means the Utah Soil Health Program created in Section 4-18-303. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Raw agricultural commodity: means a food in the food's raw or natural state, including all fruits that are washed, colored, or otherwise treated in the fruit's unpeeled, natural form before marketing. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Registration: means the commissioner's issuance of a certificate to a qualified food establishment. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• Research project: includes projects at experiment stations, on:
            (14)(b)(i) lands owned by the United States or any corporation or agency created or designed by the United States;
            (14)(b)(ii) lands owned by the state or any of the state's agencies or political subdivisions; or
            (14)(b)(iii) private lands. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
• Soil health: means the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Soil health activities: means implementation of soil health practices, research projects, demonstration projects, or educational projects, or other activities the department finds necessary or appropriate to promote soil health. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Soil Health Advisory Committee: means the committee created in Section 4-18-306. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Soil health grant program: means the grant program authorized in Section 4-18-304. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Soil health practices: means those practices that may contribute to soil health, including:
       (19)(a) no-tillage;
       (19)(b) conservation tillage;
       (19)(c) crop rotations;
       (19)(d) intercropping;
       (19)(e) cover cropping;
       (19)(f) planned grazing;
       (19)(g) the application of soil amendments that add carbon or organic matter, including biosolids, manure, compost, or biochar;
       (19)(h) revegetation; or
       (19)(i) other practices the department determines contribute or have the potential to contribute to soil health. See Utah Code 4-18-302
• Sprout: means the shoot of a plant generally harvested when cotyledons are undeveloped or underdeveloped and mature leaves have not emerged. See Utah Code 4-5-102
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Temporary restraining order: Prohibits a person from an action that is likely to cause irreparable harm. This differs from an injunction in that it may be granted immediately, without notice to the opposing party, and without a hearing. It is intended to last only until a hearing can be held.
• United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Veteran: means an individual who:
            (44)(a)(i) has served in the United States Armed Forces for at least 180 days:

                 (44)(a)(i)(A) on active duty; or

                 (44)(a)(i)(B) in a reserve component, to include the National Guard; or
            (44)(a)(ii) has incurred an actual service-related injury or disability while in the United States Armed Forces regardless of whether the individual completed 180 days; and
            (44)(a)(iii) was separated or retired under conditions characterized as honorable or general. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Writing: includes :
       (48)(a) printing;
       (48)(b) handwriting; and
       (48)(c) information stored in an electronic or other medium if the information is retrievable in a perceivable format. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5