House Engrossed grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HOUSE BILL 2551 AN ACT providing for an application extension for grandfathered water rights. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
House Engrossed grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
HOUSE BILL 2551
House Engrossed
grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
2025
HOUSE BILL 2551
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 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-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 B. This section is repealed from and after December 31, 2026.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.
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
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-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B. This section is repealed from and after December 31, 2026.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.