5910-S AMS HONE S2274.1

SSB 5910 - S AMD 077

By Senator Honeyford

    On page 3, after line 30, insert the following:

    "Sec. 3.  RCW 90.14.160 and 1981 c 291 s 1 are each amended to read as follows:

    Any person entitled to divert or withdraw waters of the state through any appropriation authorized by enactments of the legislature prior to enactment of chapter 117, Laws of 1917, or by custom, or by general adjudication, who abandons the same, or who voluntarily fails, without sufficient cause, to beneficially use all or any part of said right to divert or withdraw for any period of ((five)) ten successive years after July 1, 1967, shall relinquish such right or portion thereof, and said right or portion thereof shall revert to the state, and the waters affected by said right shall become available for appropriation in accordance with RCW 90.03.250."

    Renumber the remaining section consecutively and correct internal references accordingly.

SSB 5910 - S AMD 077

By Senator Honeyford

    On page 1, line 2 of the title, after "90.14.140" strike "and 90.42.080" and insert ", 90.42.080, and 90.14.160"

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