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Equipment Management Responsibility and Stewardship

• Introduction
• Asset Representative
• Department Head
• Principal Investigator

All persons entrusted with the management of equipment owned by, or on loan to, the university have a special stewardship obligation for safeguarding that property.

The roles and responsibilities of the Asset Representative, Department Head, and Principal Investigator as they relate to equipment management and reporting are described on the subsequent pages. The Management Services Officer also plays a role in that they sign the Equipment Certification Form.

You can view the current information for your department on the Custody Code Lookup. If you do not know your custody code, run the Custodial Code Lookup (144) in Decision Support. If any information needs to be updated (name of Asset Representative, Department Head, Management Services Officer), you can request the changes online.

See the UCD Policy and Procedure Manual 350-55-Care and Control of Equipment and 350-51-Identification of Equipment for more information.