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grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension, the official text

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PREFILED    DEC 02 2025

REFERENCE TITLE: grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2031

Introduced by

Representative
Griffin

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. Willcox active
management area; certificate of grandfathered right; time extension; delayed
repeal

A. Notwithstanding section
45-476, subsection A, Arizona Revised Statutes, a person claiming the right to
withdraw or receive and use groundwater in the Willcox 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-seven 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B. This section is repealed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, 2026.

Sec. 2. Retroactivity

This act applies retroactively to from
and after January 7, 2025.

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.
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