Bill Text: AZ HB2106 | 2014 | Fifty-first Legislature 2nd Regular | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Wildland-urban interface study committee

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-03-19 - Referred to Senate RULES Committee [HB2106 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2014-HB2106-Engrossed.html

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House Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-first Legislature

Second Regular Session

2014

 

 

HOUSE BILL 2106

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

Establishing the wildland-urban interface study committee.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Wildland-urban interface study committee; report; delayed repeal

A.  The wildland-urban interface committee is established consisting of the following members who are appointed by the state forester:

1.  One member who has experience in city or town planning and zoning in high risk wildland-urban interface areas.

2.  One member who has experience in county planning and zoning in high risk wildland-urban interface areas.

3.  One member who is a wildland fire expert.

4.  One member who is a forest management expert.

5.  One member who has knowledge and expertise in property development in wildland areas.

6.  The state forester or the state forester's designee.

7.  One member who represents the homeowner's insurance industry.

8.  One member of the Arizona fire chiefs' association.

9.  One member who owns property in an area at high risk from wildland fire in a county with a population of less than two hundred thousand persons.

10.  One member who owns property in an area at high risk from wildland fire in a county with a population of more than two hundred thousand persons.

11.  One member who is specially trained in code inspection, enforcement and investigation and is employed by a fire district in a high risk wildland‑urban interface area.

B.  Committee members are not eligible to receive compensation.

C.  The committee shall study and develop legislative recommendations relating to the following:

1.  State laws and local ordinances relating to the creation of defensible space in and around wildland-urban interface areas, including the removal of hazardous vegetation on private property.

2.  Building codes for residential and commercial buildings in wildland-urban interface areas relating to fire prevention and control.

3.  Zoning ordinances for wildland-urban interface areas relating to fire prevention and control.

4.  Other matters relating to wildland-urban fire prevention and control that the committee considers to be necessary.

D.  The committee shall submit a report of its findings and legislative recommendations on or before December 31, 2014 to the governor, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives and provide a copy of this report to the secretary of state.

E.  This section is repealed from and after September 30, 2015.