§ 32-4-5 - Duties of director.
SECTION 32-4-5
§ 32-4-5 Duties of director. – In acquiring lands and making grants to assist local units to acquire lands,the director shall:
(1) Seek to achieve a reasonable balance among all areas ofthe state in consideration of the relative adequacy of area recreation andconservation facilities at the time and the relative anticipated future needsfor additional recreation and conservation facilities;
(2) Give due consideration to the special park requirementneeds of urban areas;
(3) Give due consideration to acquiring unusual or uniquenatural areas;
(4) Insofar as practicable, and except as provided insubdivision (3) of this section, limit acquisition to predominately open andnatural land in order to minimize the cost of acquisition and the expense ofrendering land suitable for recreation and conservation purposes;
(5) Wherever possible, select land for acquisition which issuitable for multiple recreation and conservation purposes and contains an areasufficiently large to make practical its use for those purposes;
(6) Give due consideration to coordination with the plans ofother departments of state government with respect to land use or acquisition.For this purpose, the director is authorized to use the facilities of thedepartment of economic development and any agency, commission, orinterdepartmental committee; and
(7) Encourage contiguous local units to develop joint planswith respect to land use or acquisition for recreation and conservationpurposes.