Bill Text: AZ HB2572 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Technical correction; groundwater rights; AMAs
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-19 - House read second time [HB2572 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-HB2572-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; groundwater rights; AMAs |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HB 2572 |
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Introduced by Representative Griffin
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AN ACT
Amending section 45-451, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the groundwater code.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 45-451, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
45-451. Groundwater rights and uses in active management areas
A. In an active management area, a person may:
1. Withdraw and use groundwater only in accordance with the provisions of articles 5 through 12 of this chapter.
2. Store water in a storage facility, as defined in section 45-802.01, only in accordance with chapter 3.1 of this title.
B. This chapter shall not be construed to affect decreed and appropriative water rights. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the definition of surface water in section 45-101 and the definition description of water subject to appropriation in section 45-141 or the provisions of article 9 of chapter 1, article 9 of this title.
C. Notwithstanding subsection B of this section, solely in the Santa Cruz active management area:
1. The withdrawal of water, other than stored water, from a well and the distribution and use of water, other than stored water, withdrawn from a well shall be subject to any applicable conservation requirements established by the director in the management plans for the active management area pursuant to article 9 of this chapter.
2. The withdrawal of water from a well shall be subject to any applicable well location requirements contained in article 10 of this chapter.
