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Senate Engrossed House Bill
insurance coverage; hearing aids; children (now: special district; water) |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HOUSE BILL 2125 |
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An Act
amending sections 48-3112 and 48-3151, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to water districts.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 48-3112, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
48-3112. Estimate of annual financial requirements
A. The board of directors, not later than July 1 each year, shall estimate the amount of money required to meet the obligations of the district for the next fiscal year, including maturing bonds and interest, maintenance and operating and current expenses, together with such additional amount necessary to meet any deficiency in the payment of items of expense incurred during any previous year, and to provide funds monies for purchases of lands sold for delinquent taxes. The board may include in the estimate the amount of money required for the repayment of all or any part of district taxes paid for any preceding year in any case in which the district taxes remaining unpaid for such year have been cancelled canceled as provided in section 48-3125.
B. The estimates shall be fully itemized to show the amount required for each of the funds into which the money of the district is divided by the treasurer, and the total amount of the estimated expenses.
C. The estimate shall be entered in full upon on the records of the district and a certified copy thereof transmitted to the board of supervisors of each county in which any lands of the district are located, together with a certified copy of the records showing the total number of acres of taxable land of the district and a description of such portions thereof as are located in each county, including all lands within the boundaries of the district not excluded by an order made under the provisions of this chapter.
D. A claim against the district by a municipal water provider regarding a contract for the district to provide water with a term of twenty years or more shall be brought within eight years after the claim accrues.
E. A claim against a municipal water
provider by the district regarding a contract for the district to provide
water with a term of twenty years or more shall be brought within eight years
after the claim regarding a contract for the district to provide
water with a term of twenty years or more shall be brought within eight years
after the claim accrues.
Sec. 2. Section 48-3151, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
48-3151. Authority to levy district assessments; contents of resolution; terms as to delinquencies
A. In addition to authorized taxes, the board of directors may, at a regular or special meeting, notice of which shall be given for at least ten days previous by posting in three public places within the district, by resolution adopted by a two-thirds vote of the board and entered upon on the records of the district, may levy an assessment for the purpose of paying or refunding district indebtedness, repairing, improving, extending, maintaining and operating existing irrigation works, installing new works or systems or meeting emergencies.
B. The assessment may by the resolution may be made payable wholly or in installments extending over such period of time and in such amounts as the board of directors deems advisable. The resolution shall state the purpose or purposes for which the levy is made, the aggregate amount of the levy of the assessment and the amount of the levy of the assessment per acre, which shall be equal upon on each acre subject to district taxation, the method, times and manner of payment and collection of the assessment, and if the assessment is payable in installments, the amounts and due dates thereof of the installments.
C. The board of directors shall also by the resolution shall also prescribe the rate or amount of penalty attaching for failure to pay the assessment or any installment of the levy of the assessment when the assessment becomes due, and the interest it shall bear from such date. The penalty and interest shall not exceed the rate or amount provided by laws then in force relating to general county property taxes. The board of directors may provide by the resolution that failure to pay any installment of any assessment may, at the option of the board, may cause the whole amount thereof of the assessment to become immediately due and payable.
D. A claim against the district by a municipal water provider regarding a contract for the district to provide water with a term of twenty years or more shall be brought within eight years after the claim accrues.
E. A claim against a municipal water
provider by the district regarding a contract for the district to provide
water with a term of twenty years or more shall be brought within eight years
after the claim regarding a contract for the district to provide
water with a term of twenty years or more shall be brought within eight years
after the claim accrues.
Sec. 3. Applicability
Notwithstanding section 12-505,
Arizona Revised Statutes, or any other preexisting law that prescribes a time
limit on a cause of acany other preexisting law that prescribes a time
limit on a cause of action, sections 48-3112 and 48-3151, Arizona Revised
Statutes, as amended by this act, apply to any cause of action that either:
1. Is commenced on or after the effective date of this act.
2. Was commenced before the effective date of this act.