Bill Amendment: AZ HB2343 | 2014 | Fifty-first Legislature 2nd Regular
Bill Title: Wildfire prevention; state trust land
Status: 2014-04-23 - Chapter 207 [HB2343 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2014-HB2343-SENATE_ADOPTED_AMENDMENT_Appropriations_-_Strike_Everything.html
Fifty-first Legislature Appropriations
Second Regular Session H.B. 2343
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2343
(Reference to House engrossed bill)
Strike everything after the enacting clause and insert:
“Section. 1. Title 37, chapter 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding article 3, to read:
ARTICLE 3. PROTECTION OF STATE LANDS
37-134. state land trust; public benefit; immunity
ANY AND ALL STATUTORY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER TITLE 37 ARE FOR THE BENEFIT AND PROTECTION OF STATE LANDS, THE ARIZONA STATE LAND TRUST OR THE PUBLIC GENERALLY AND NOT FOR THE BENEFIT OR PROTECTION OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OR FOR THE BENEFIT OR PROTECTION OF ANY INDIVIDUAL OR CLASS OF INDIVIDUALS. THE STATE OF ARIZONA AND ITS EMPLOYEES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF ITS EMPLOYEES IN FULFILLING THE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER TITLE 37.
Sec. 2. Title 37, chapter 2, article 11, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 37-483, to read:
37-483. Removal of vegetative products; program
A. ON OR BEFORE JANUARY 1, 2016, THE COMMISSIONER, IN COORDINATION WITH THE STATE FORESTER, SHALL ESTABLISH A PROGRAM FOR THE REMOVAL OF VEGETATIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIRE SUPPRESSION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT ON STATE LANDS. THE COMMISSIONER AND STATE FORESTER SHALL IDENTIFY AND PRIORITIZE THE STATE LANDS THAT WOULD BENEFIT THE MOST FROM IMPLEMENTATION OF A PROGRAM FOR THE REMOVAL OF VEGETATIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIRE SUPPRESSION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE WILD FIRE RISK ASSESSMENT DEVELOPED BY THE STATE FORESTER.
B. TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM FOR THE REMOVAL OF VEGETATIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIRE SUPPRESSION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT ON STATE LANDS THE COMMISSIONER AND STATE FORESTER MAY:
1. COORDINATE AND CONTRACT WITH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE ENTITIES.
2. ENTER INTO AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT PURSUANT TO TITLE 11, CHAPTER 7, ARTICLE 3, WITH A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN, NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION TO SHARE THE COST OF IMPLEMENTING THE PROGRAM FOR THE REMOVAL OF VEGETATIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIRE SUPPRESSION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT ON STATE LANDS. AN INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT ENTERED INTO PURSUANT TO THIS SUBSECTION MUST STATE THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF EACH PARTY WITH REGARD TO IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAM FOR THE REMOVAL OF VEGETATIVE NATURAL PRODUCTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF FIRE SUPPRESSION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT ON STATE LANDS.”
Amend title to conform
