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53B-8-101. Waiver of tuition.
(1) (a) The president of each institution may waive all or part of the tuition in behalf ofmeritorious or impecunious resident students to an amount not exceeding 10% of the totalamount of tuition which, in the absence of the waivers, would have been collected from all Utahresident students at the institution.
(b) Two and a half percent of the waivers designated in Subsection (1)(a) shall be setaside for members of the Utah National Guard. Waivers shall be preserved by the student at least60 days before the beginning of an academic term.
(2) (a) Each academic year the president of each of the following institutions may waiveall or part of the resident portion of the tuition in behalf of the additional number of meritoriousnonresident students set forth below who are not current recipients of the waiver:
(i) the University of Utah president may grant up to 190 waivers;
(ii) the Utah State University president may grant up to 183 waivers, 18 of which shall beawarded to students at Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah;
(iii) the Weber State University president may grant up to 135 waivers;
(iv) the Southern Utah University president may grant up to 68 waivers;
(v) the Snow College president may grant up to 18 waivers;
(vi) the Dixie State College of Utah president may grant up to 30 waivers;
(vii) the Utah Valley University president may grant up to 114 waivers; and
(viii) the Salt Lake Community College president may grant up to 43 waivers.
(b) (i) A president may continue to waive the resident portion of the tuition during theentire time the affected meritorious nonresident student remains an undergraduate student ingood standing at the institution.
(ii) The resident portion of the tuition for each nonresident student is equal to the tuitionfor resident students at the institution.
(c) A president may waive the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritoriousnonresident student receiving a waiver under Subsection (2)(a) after completion of the student'sfirst year of full-time study at the institution.
(d) (i) In addition to the waivers authorized by Subsections (2)(a) and (c), a presidentmay waive all or part of the nonresident portion of tuition for a meritorious nonresident studentduring the student's first year of full-time study at the institution.
(ii) The number of these nonresident waivers for each institution is limited to thepercentage of nonresident students at each institution times the nonresident student numberallowed under Subsection (2)(a).
(3) Upon recommendation of the board, a president may grant additional full or partialtuition waivers to encourage students to enroll for instruction in occupations critical to the statefor which trained personnel are in short supply.
(4) A president may waive all or part of the difference between resident and nonresidenttuition in the case of meritorious graduate students and nonresident summer school students.
(5) The board shall submit annual budget appropriation requests for each institutionwhich include requests for funds sufficient in amount to equal the estimated loss of dedicatedcredits that would be realized if all of the tuition waivers authorized by Subsection (2) weregranted.

Amended by Chapter 211, 2010 General Session