Bill Text: AZ HB2016 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered


Bill Title: Grandfathered right; subsequent AMA; extension

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-03-25 - Chapter 16 [HB2016 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2024-HB2016-Chaptered.html

 

 

Senate Engrossed House Bill

 

grandfathered right; subsequent AMA; extension

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

CHAPTER 16

 

HOUSE BILL 2016

 

 

An Act

 

providing for an application extension for grandfathered water rights.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Douglas active management area; certificate of grandfathered right; time extension; delayed repeal

Notwithstanding section 45-476, subsection A, Arizona Revised Statutes, a person claiming the right to withdraw or receive and use groundwater in the Douglas active management area pursuant to a grandfathered right shall file an application for a certificate of grandfathered right with the department of water resources not later than twenty-one months after the date of the designation of the active management area on a form provided by the department.

B. This section is repealed from and after December 31, 2024.

Sec. 2. Retroactivity

This act applies retroactively to from and after February 29, 2024.

Sec. 3. Emergency

This act is an emergency measure that is necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is operative immediately as provided by law.


 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MARCH 25, 2024.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCH 25, 2024.

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