REFERENCE TITLE: groundwater pumping; foreign ownership; prohibition

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

2023

SB 1090

Introduced by

Senator Kern

An Act

amending title 45, chapter 2, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 45-456; relating to the groundwater code.

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

Section 1. Title 45, chapter 2, article 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 45-456, to read:

START_STATUTE45-456. Foreign ownership; groundwater pumping; definition

A. A corporation or other entity in which the government of another country has a controlling interest is not eligible to pump groundwater in this state.

B. For the purposes of this section, "controlling interest" means direct or indirect ownership of at least eighty percent of the voting shares of a corporation or of the interests in a company, business or person other than a corporation. END_STATUTE