1295-S AMH VAND LESK 021

SHB 1295 - H AMD 46

By Representative Van De Wege

ADOPTED 02/26/2011

    On page 7, beginning on line 8, strike all of section 5 and insert the following:

"NEW SECTION. Sec. 5.  A new section is added to chapter 70.119A RCW to read as follows:

    (1)  A person or purveyor that owns, operates, or maintains a public water system shall not be liable for damages resulting from shutting off water to a residential home with an installed fire sprinkler system if the shut off is due to: (a) Routine maintenance; (b) nonpayment by the customer; or (c) a water system emergency.

    (2)  Any governmental or municipal corporation, including but not limited to special districts, shall be deemed to be exercising a governmental function when it acts or undertakes to supply water, within or without its corporate limits, to a residential home with an installed fire sprinkler system."

EFFECT:   Provides immunity to a person or purveyor that owns, operates, or maintains a public water system from damages resulting from shutting off the water to a residential home with an installed fire sprinkler system under certain conditions. Deems any governmental or municipal corporation to be exercising a governmental function when it acts or undertakes to supply water to a residential home with an installed fire sprinkler system.

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