Utah Admin. Code R807-1-10 - Obligations of Repositories or Curation Facilities

(1) Repositories or curation facilities shall immediately notify the Museum of any loss of accreditation, any changes resulting in a failure to meet federal curation standards, or any breach of a memorandum of agreement entered into with the Museum.

(2) If a repository or curation facility loses its accreditation, fails to meet federal curation standards, or breaches its memorandum of agreement, the Museum may require transfer of collections to another repository or curation facility.

(3) The Museum shall periodically review repositories to assure they are providing adequate curation appropriate to the nature and content of the collection. The Museum's reviews may occur through an on-site visit or submission of written reports from the repository. The Museum shall give the repository 30 days notice of a proposed review.

(4) Curation facilities with collections from state lands shall provide the Museum with copies of accreditation reports from the American Association of Museums or other nationally recognized accrediting institutions or agencies.

(5) Repositories or curation facilities shall provide an inventory of collections received from state lands to the Museum within 90 days of receipt of the collection.

(6) Repositories or curation facilities shall notify the Museum 30 days prior to undertaking any destructive analysis or exchange to allow the Museum opportunity to review and comment.

(7) Other than appropriate exchanges of collections and destructive analysis, no other form of permanent removal of collections shall take place.

(8) Repositories or curation facilities shall notify the Museum within 30 days of the accidental or any other loss or destruction of any specimen.

(9) Repositories or curation facilities shall not take any actions that would adversely affect recognition of the following:

(a) Collections obtained in exchange for collections found on school and institutional trust lands are owned by the respective trust and are subject to these rules;

(b) Collections recovered from school and institutional trust lands are owned by the respective trust;

(c) Any monies obtained by a curation facility or repository from sales of reproductions derived from collections found on state lands shall be given to the respective trust, except that the curation facility or repository may retain monies sufficient to recover the direct costs of preparation for sale and a reasonable fee for handling the sale. It is recognized that a curation facility or repository may contract with a third party to prepare and produce reproductions.

(d) Collections recovered from school and institutional trust lands shall be available for exhibition as the beneficiaries of the respective trust may request, subject to Museum's curation responsibilities and the repository or curation facility's budgetary and exhibit priorities.

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