HB 2307-S - DIGEST

(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

Declares that the purpose of this act is to ensure that counties have a sufficient portion of their citizenry eligible to serve as commissioners of water conservancy boards to enable the appointing legislative authorities to fill positions on the boards in both urban and rural counties.

Provides that, for the purposes determining a person's eligibility to be appointed as a commissioner who is not a water right holder under this act, a person is not considered to be a water right holder: (1) By virtue of the person's receiving water from a municipal water supplier as defined in RCW 90.03.015, or

(2) If the only water right held by the person is a right to the type of residential use of water that is exempted from permit requirements by RCW 90.44.050 and that right is for water from a well located in a county with a population that is not greater than one hundred fifty thousand people.