Bill Text: AZ SB1459 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Water improvements program; grants; county

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-12 - Chapter 227 [SB1459 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-SB1459-Chaptered.html

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Senate Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

 

CHAPTER 227

 

SENATE BILL 1459

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 11, chapter 2, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 11-254.09; relating to county boards of supervisors.

 

 

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

Section 1.  Title 11, chapter 2, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 11-254.09, to read:

START_STATUTE11-254.09.  Water improvements program; grants; requirements

A.  The board of supervisors may establish a program to allow persons to make gifts, grants or donations for the purpose of providing financial assistance to qualified owners of residential real property for making improvements to an existing drinking water well or providing for a water delivery system for the residence.

B.  The board shall designate an entity to operate the program, to establish criteria for grants and to award grants as prescribed by this section.  The entity may be a county agency, department or division or may be a private, nonprofit corporation as determined by the board of supervisors.

C.  The program shall do all of the following:

1.  Limit grant recipients to persons who are low-income or fixed income owners of residential property.

2.  Develop application criteria and criteria for awarding grants.

3.  Restrict a grant recipient's use of grant monies to deepening an existing drinking water well for the recipient's residence or to plumbing or replumbing the recipient's residence for a water delivery system.

D.  The board of supervisors may not use general county monies for grants under the program.

E.  The entity that operates the program shall make and submit to the county board of supervisors, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives on or before July 1 of each year a report containing a description of program operations of the preceding year, including the amount of gifts, grants or donations received and the grants awarded. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MAY 12, 2016.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 12, 2016.