HB2672 Summary

• Amends Arizona Revised Statutes Section 45-151 regarding water appropriation rights.

• Allows any person, the state of Arizona, or a political subdivision to appropriate unappropriated water for domestic, municipal, irrigation, stock watering, water power, recreation, wildlife, and mining uses.

• Adds new provision allowing a water rights holder to prevent curtailment of their right by a better right holder by demonstrating that curtailment would not produce water for beneficial use for the better right holder.

• Maintains existing language recognizing water rights in stockponds certified under the statute as validly appropriated water rights.