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2020 Utah Code
Title 73 - Water and Irrigation
Chapter 10 - Board of Water Resources - Division of Water Resources
Section 34 - Secondary water metering.
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UT Code § 73-10-34 (2020)
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Effective 3/30/2020
73-10-34. Secondary water metering.
Amended by Chapter 350, 2020 General Session
73-10-34. Secondary water metering.
- (1) As used in this section:
- (a)
- (i) "Commercial user" means a secondary water user that is a place of business.
- (ii) "Commercial user" does not include a multi-family residence, an agricultural user, or a customer that falls within the industrial or institutional classification.
- (b)
- (i) "Industrial user" means a secondary water user that manufactures or produces materials.
- (ii) "Industrial user" includes a manufacturing plant, an oil and gas producer, and a mining company.
- (c)
- (i) "Institutional user" means a secondary water user that is dedicated to public service, regardless of ownership.
- (ii) "Institutional user" includes a school, church, hospital, park, golf course, and government facility.
- (d)
- (i) "Residential user" means a secondary water user in a residence.
- (ii) "Residential user" includes a single-family or multi-family home, apartment, duplex, twin home, condominium, or planned community.
- (e) "Secondary water" means water that is:
- (i) not culinary or water used on land assessed under Title 59, Chapter 2, Part 5, Farmland Assessment Act; and
- (ii) delivered to and used by an end consumer for the irrigation of landscaping or a garden.
- (f) "Secondary water supplier" means an entity that supplies pressurized secondary water.
- (a)
- (2) A secondary water supplier that begins design work for new service on or after April 1, 2020, to a commercial, industrial, institutional, or residential user shall meter the use of pressurized secondary water by the users receiving that new service.
- (3) A secondary water supplier shall on or before March 31 of each year, report to the Division of Water Rights:
- (a) for commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential users whose pressurized secondary water use is metered, the number of acre feet of pressurized secondary water the secondary water supplier supplied to the commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential users during the preceding 12-month period;
- (b) the number of secondary water meters within the secondary water supplier's service boundary;
- (c) a description of the secondary water supplier's service boundary;
- (d) the number of connections in each of the following categories through which the secondary water supplier supplies pressurized secondary water:
- (i) commercial;
- (ii) industrial;
- (iii) institutional; and
- (iv) residential;
- (e) the total volume of water that the secondary water supplier receives from its sources; and
- (f) the dates of service during the preceding 12-month period in which the secondary water supplier supplied pressurized secondary water.
- (4)
- (a) Beginning July 1, 2019, the Board of Water Resources may make up to $10,000,000 in low-interest loans available each year:
- (i) from the Water Resources Conservation and Development Fund, created in Section 73-10-24; and
- (ii) for financing the cost of secondary water metering.
- (b) The Division of Water Resources and the Board of Water Resources shall make rules in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, establishing the criteria and process for receiving a loan described in this Subsection (4), except the rules may not include prepayment penalties.
- (a) Beginning July 1, 2019, the Board of Water Resources may make up to $10,000,000 in low-interest loans available each year:
- (5) This section does not apply to a secondary water supplier to the extent that:
- (a) the secondary water supplier supplies secondary water within a county of the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth class; or
- (b) there is no meter that a meter manufacturer will warranty because of the water quality within a specific location.
- (6) Nothing in this section affects a water right holder's obligation to measure and report water usage as described in Sections 73-5-4 and 73-5-8.
Amended by Chapter 350, 2020 General Session
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