FINAL BILL REPORT

HB 1016

                                  C 381 L 87

BYRepresentatives Dellwo and Haugen

Authorizing lien and low-income fee reduction for county fees in aquifer protection districts for water withdrawal and sewage disposal.

House Committe on Local Government

Senate Committee on Governmental Operations

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Legislation was enacted in 1985 allowing counties to create aquifer protection districts to finance the protection, preservation and rehabilitation of subterranean water.  An aquifer protection district is created by a vote of the registered voters residing within its proposed boundaries.  Fees on the withdrawal of subterranean water, and/or on-site sewage disposal, are authorized if voters approve a ballot proposition, proposing the imposition of the fees, that specifies the maximum levels of the fees and states the purposes for which they are imposed.

SUMMARY:

A county legislative authority may reduce the level of fees imposed in an aquifer protection district on the residential property of a class or classes of low income persons.

The county will possess a lien for any delinquent fees imposed in an aquifer protection district.  A lien would not attach to the property for which the charges are delinquent until 18 months after the first billing that was not paid, and until at least three billing notices and a letter explaining the lien have been mailed to the property owner.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

      House 59  36

      Senate    45     0(Senate amended)

      House 96   1(House concurred)

EFFECTIVE:July 26, 1987