Title 45, Waters

A. The director shall establish a long-term storage account and a water district account for the active management area in which a water district member land or water district member service area is or may be located. B. For each reporting year, the water district groundwater rep…

A. The director shall prescribe and furnish application forms for the permits prescribed by articles 2 and 3 of this chapter. The application forms shall require the applicant to submit the information needed by the director to determine whether the permit may be issued. The dire…

A person who stores water at an underground storage facility, who delivers in lieu water to a recipient at a groundwater savings facility or who recovers stored water pursuant to a recovery well permit shall use a water measuring device approved by the director and shall comply w…

The in lieu water that is delivered pursuant to a groundwater savings facility permit and a water storage permit issued under this chapter is deemed to be groundwater for all purposes of chapter 2 of this title as if the recipient of the in lieu water had withdrawn it from a well…

A. The director shall levy and collect a long-term storage credit recovery fee from each person who recovers long-term storage credits pursuant to a recovery well permit issued under section 45-834.01. The amount of the long-term storage credit recovery fee is equal to the amount…

A. Each person who holds a storage facility permit shall file an annual report with the director that includes the following information: 1. The total quantity of water stored at the facility during the year. 2. The name, address and water storage permit number of each person sto…

A. Each groundwater replenishment district shall file an annual report with the director that includes: 1. The total amount of water that was stored by the district during the reporting year pursuant to each water storage permit issued to it under this chapter. 2. The amount of w…

A. Each conservation district shall file an annual report with the director that includes for each active management area in which a member land or member service area is or may be located: 1. The total amount of water that was stored by the conservation district during the repor…

A. Each water district shall file an annual report with the director that includes for the active management area in which a water district member land or water district member service area is or may be located: 1. The total amount of water that was stored by the water district d…

A. Each annual report required by this article shall contain either a sworn statement or a certification under penalty of perjury that the information contained in the report is true and correct according to the best belief and knowledge of the person filing the report. B. Each p…

A. The director or the director's authorized representative may enter at reasonable times on private or public property where any facilities used for the purposes of water storage, stored water recovery or stored water use are located and the owner, manager or occupant of the pro…

A. Except as provided by subsection B of this section, if the director has reason to believe that a person is violating or has violated a provision of this chapter or a permit, rule or order issued or adopted pursuant to this chapter, the director may give the person written noti…

A. A person who is determined pursuant to section 45-881.01 to be in violation of this chapter or a permit, rule or order issued or adopted pursuant to this chapter may be assessed a civil penalty in an amount not exceeding: 1. One hundred dollars per day of violation that is not…

It is declared that the public policy of this state and the general purposes of this article are: 1. To protect the general economy and welfare of this state and its citizens by wise resource management of the water of the central Arizona project. 2. To store for future needs or …

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Excess central Arizona project water" means central Arizona project water that in any year would otherwise not be delivered to central Arizona project subcontractors or their designees. 2. "Project permits" means permits…

A. A conservation district may apply to the director pursuant to articles 2 and 3 of this chapter for project permits for one or more state demonstration projects to be funded by account A of the state water storage fund established by section 45-897.01 and one or more projects t…

A. After the qualification of any real property as member land pursuant to section 48-3774 or the qualification of any service area as a member service area pursuant to section 48-3780, a conservation district may use the facilities and excess storage capacity of any state demons…

A. Water that is stored in a state demonstration project, that is purchased with monies from the state water storage fund established by section 45-897.01 and that is eligible for credits in a long-term storage account pursuant to section 45-852.01 shall be credited to a state de…

A. Notwithstanding section 45-895.01, if a groundwater replenishment district is established pursuant to title 48, chapter 27 on or before July 1, 1996 in the Phoenix active management area: 1. The multi-county water conservation district and the groundwater replenishment distric…

A. A state water storage fund is established to be administered by the director as provided in this article. The fund shall be divided into two accounts, one account for the benefit of counties having a population of more than five hundred thousand persons but less than one milli…

For purposes of this article only, when proposing, obtaining permits for, acquiring property for or constructing, operating, maintaining, terminating or dismantling a state demonstration project, a conservation district is an agent of the state, and the state shall indemnify and …