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Publicity and Industrial Development

Publicity and Industrial Development
The 1941 Legislature gave the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development very comprehensive responsibilities and powers. The Department was authorized to manage the business, industrial, commercial, agricultural, educational, recreational, scenic, historic, highway, and residential facilities, and advantages and attractions of the state; oversee tourism and economic and business development; promote construction and road building projects; administer and develop campgrounds and state parks; administer fairs and expositions, oversee the Centennial Commission; oversee post-war planning; oversee the Water Storage Commission (i.e. water resources); and develop a smokeless fuel industry in Utah for the processing of coal.
In 1941, the Legislature (Laws of Utah 1941, ch. 75) created the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development. In 1953, the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development and the Road and Tourist Information Office (which had been created within the State Road Commission by proclamation of Governor J. Bracken Lee in 1952) were replaced by the newly created Utah Tourist and Publicity Council within the Industrial Commission (Laws of Utah 1953, ch. 123). In 1967, several departments were co-ordinated and consolidated by the Legislature in the Utah Development Services Act (Laws of Utah 1967, ch. 175); this act created the Division of Travel Development and abolished the Tourist and Publicity Council.

The 1941 Legislature, in creating the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development, appropriated $25,000 to finance its organization and activities. The special session of the 1941 Legislature adopted legislation which provided that on August 1, 1941, and on the same day each year thereafter, any surplus in the Motor Vehicle Registration Fund, the disposition of which was not otherwise provided for by law, would be transferred to the Department of Publicity and Industrial Development, but the funds so transferred should not be used in any manner which would cause the State to lose any available Federal aid for highways.

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14-Jan-2019
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