Bill Text: AZ HB2592 | 2011 | Fiftieth Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Technical correction; common variety minerals

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-15 - Referred to House APPROP Committee [HB2592 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2011-HB2592-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: technical correction; common variety minerals

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fiftieth Legislature

First Regular Session

2011

 

 

HB 2592

 

Introduced by

Representative Proud

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 27-271, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to lease of state lands for common variety minerals.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Section 27-271, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE27-271.  Definition of common variety minerals

For purposes of this article, "common variety minerals":

1.  Includes deposits of petrified wood, stone, pumice, pumicite or cinders, decomposed granite, sand, gravel, boulders, common clay, fill dirt and waste rock.

2.  Includes deposits that, although they may have value for use in trade, manufacturing and the construction, landscaping and decorative rock industries, do not possess a distinct, special economic value for those uses beyond the normal uses of those deposits.

3.  Includes material used as road base material, riprap, ballast, borrow, fill,  or facing stone,  or for landscaping or ornamental uses and other similar uses.

4.  Does not include limestone suitable for use in producing cement, metallurgical or chemical grade limestone or gypsum.END_STATUTE