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63G-6a-111.1
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Landscaping Procurement Amendments
2026 GENERAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Chief Sponsor: Stephanie Pitcher
House Sponsor: Thomas W. Peterson
LONG TITLE
General Description:
This bill addresses procurement of landscape maintenance equipment.
Highlighted Provisions:
This bill:
defines terms; and
subject to specified exceptions, requires that when a state entity procures landscape
maintenance equipment, the landscape maintenance equipment be electric-powered.
Money Appropriated in this Bill:
None
Other Special Clauses:
None
Utah Code Sections Affected:
ENACTS:
63G-6a-111.1
, Utah Code Annotated 1953
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section
63G-6a-111.1
is enacted to read:
63G-6a-111.1
. Requirements for landscape maintenance equipment.
(1)
As used in this section:
(a)
"Electric-powered" means operated using electricity as the primary power source.
(b)
(i)
"Landscape maintenance" means routine care of outdoor vegetation and
associated elements, including mulch, gravel, flower beds, and decorative barriers.
(ii)
"Landscape maintenance" includes mowing, edging, trimming, fertilizing, raking,
and blowing.
(c)
"Landscape maintenance equipment" means any device that is primarily designed for
the performance of landscape maintenance.
(d)
"State agency" means any unit of state government, including a department, division,
office, or institution of higher education.
(e)
"State government facility" means a building, structure, or other improvement that is
constructed on property owned by the state or a state agency.
(f)
"State government grounds" means the real property, whether fenced or unfenced, on
which a state government facility is located.
(2)
Subject to Subsection
(3)
, when a procurement unit procures new landscape
maintenance equipment to replace end-of-life, gasoline-powered landscape maintenance
equipment to be used primarily on state government grounds, the procurement unit shall
procure landscape maintenance equipment that is electric-powered if the state
government grounds:
(a)
are located in a county of the first or second class, as classified under Section
17-60-104
; and
(b)
consist of fewer than 50,000 square feet of property needing landscape maintenance.
(3)
The director of the Division of Facilities Construction and Management created in
Section
63A-5b-301
may exempt a procurement unit, or a specific procurement
transaction, from the requirements of Subsection
(2)
if:
(a)
using electric-powered landscape maintenance equipment is not practical due to the
existing slope, erosion, stoniness, or other features of the landscape where the
equipment is to be used;
(b)
there is an emergency and using electric-powered landscape maintenance equipment
is impractical to maintaining the safe and operational condition of the property where
the equipment is to be used; or
(c)
the director, in consultation with the procurement unit, makes a written finding that
the requirements of Subsection (2) are cost-prohibitive.
Section 2.
Effective Date.
This bill takes effect on
May 6, 2026
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2-23-26 5:40 PM