PREFILED DEC 16 2024 REFERENCE TITLE: wind farms; location limits State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 SB 1016 Introduced by Senator Rogers An Act amending title 33, chapter 23, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 33-2502; relating to private property rights. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
PREFILED DEC 16 2024
REFERENCE TITLE: wind farms; location limits
State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
SB 1016
Introduced by Senator Rogers
REFERENCE TITLE: wind farms; location limits
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
2025
SB 1016
Introduced by
Senator Rogers
An Act
amending title 33, chapter 23, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 33-2502; relating to private property rights.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 33, chapter 23, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 33-2502, to read: START_STATUTE33-2502. Wind farms; location; consent; definition A. Notwithstanding any other law, a wind farm may not be located within six miles of the outer perimeter of a property that is owned by a different person or entity than the person or entity that owns the property on which the wind farm is to be located, except if the property owner consents to the location of the wind farm in writing. B. For the purposes of this section, "wind farm": 1. Means wind turbines and associated facilities that have a single interconnection to the electrical grid and that are designed for or capable of operation at an aggregate capacity of five or more megawatts. 2. Does not include one or more wind turbines and associated facilities that are primarily dedicated to providing electricity to a single customer at a single location and that are designed for or capable of operation at an aggregate capacity of less than twenty megawatts, as measured at the customer's point of interconnection to the electrical grid.END_STATUTE
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 33, chapter 23, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 33-2502, to read:
START_STATUTE33-2502. Wind farms; location; consent; definition
A. Notwithstanding any other law, a wind farm may not be located within six miles of the outer perimeter of a property that is owned by a different person or entity than the person or entity that owns the property on which the wind farm is to be located, except if the property owner consents to the location of the wind farm in writing.
B. For the purposes of this section, "wind farm":
1. Means wind turbines and associated facilities that have a single interconnection to the electrical grid and that are designed for or capable of operation at an aggregate capacity of five or more megawatts.
2. Does not include one or more wind turbines and associated facilities that are primarily dedicated to providing electricity to a single customer at a single location and that are designed for or capable of operation at an aggregate capacity of less than twenty megawatts, as measured at the customer's point of interconnection to the electrical grid.END_STATUTE