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AZ SB1335

Bill

Status

Passed

3/30/2015

Primary Sponsor

David Farnsworth

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature - First Regular Session (2015)

AI Summary

  • Prohibits municipalities from requiring fire sprinklers in one or two family residences or utility/accessory buildings as a condition of approving fire apparatus access roads or routes.

  • Allows private civil actions against municipalities for violations, with courts authorized to award reasonable attorney fees, damages, lost opportunity costs, interest, and the cost of sprinkler systems to prevailing parties.

  • Declares property rights a matter of statewide concern and establishes state preemption over municipal regulations regarding fire apparatus access roads and route extensions.

  • Extends the same fire sprinkler prohibition and enforcement provisions to counties for unincorporated areas, superseding county regulations on fire apparatus access roads.

  • Defines "utility or miscellaneous accessory building or structure" to include agricultural buildings, aircraft hangars, barns, carports, fences over six feet high, greenhouses, sheds, stables, and similar structures.

Legislative Description

Fire access roads; limitation; enforcement.

Last Action

Chapter 88

3/30/2015

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