Water permits-mapping.

WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0642

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0273

Water permits-mapping.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Samuelson, Brown and Hageman

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to water permits; providing requirements for nonelectronic mapping as specified; providing exemptions from map and plan certification requirements; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 33
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139(a)(intro), by creating a new paragraph (iii), by renumbering (iii) through (ix) as (iv) through (x) and (b) is amended to read:

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139.

Maps, plats, plans or designs for filing to be made and certified by professional engineer or surveyor; exception; size of maps.

(a)

All maps, plats, plans or designs necessary to be filed in the state engineer's office, the office of state lands and investments, all county clerks offices, all city or town offices, or any other office of public record in the state of Wyoming, shall be made and certified by a professional engineer or land surveyor registered under this act. The original must either be drawn in waterproof black ink or acetate ink, or be an acceptable photographic or other kind of reproduction on good quality tracing linen or a polyester base drafting film in a minimum thickness of four-thousandths (.004) inch. All
nonelectronic
maps, plats, plans or designs shall conform to one (1) of the following sizes and shall consist of one (1) original drawing together with one (1) print:

(iii)

Size AAA – Eleven (11) inches by seventeen (17) inches;

(iii)
(iv)

Size B - Fifteen (15) inches long and ten and three-fourths (10 3/4) inches wide. There shall be a minimum of one and one-half (1 1/2) inches margin on the left side of the short dimension for a binding edge; the remaining three (3) margins shall be one-fourth (1/4) inch each;

(iv)
(v)

Size C - Thirty-six (36) inches long and twenty-two (22) inches wide. There shall be a minimum of one and one-half (1 1/2) inches margin on the left side of the short dimension for a binding edge; the remaining three (3) margins shall be one-half (1/2) inch each;

(v)
(vi)

Size D - Twenty-one and one-half (21 1/2) inches long and fifteen (15) inches wide. There shall be a minimum of one and one-half (1 1/2) inches on the left side of the long dimension to serve as a binding edge; the three (3) remaining margins shall be three-eighths (3/8) of an inch each;

(vi)
(vii)

Size E - Thirty (30) inches long and twenty-one and one-half (21 1/2) inches wide. There shall be a minimum of one and one-half (1 1/2) inches margin on the left side of the short dimension to serve as a binding edge; the remaining margins shall be one-half (1/2) inch each;

(vii)
(viii)

Size F - Forty (40) inches long and thirty-five (35) inches wide. There shall be margins of three-fourths (3/4) of an inch on all edges;

(viii)
(ix)

Size G - Twenty-four (24) inches by thirty-six (36) inches. There shall be a minimum of one and one-half (1 1/2) inches margin on the left side of the short dimension to serve as a binding edge; the three (3) remaining margins shall be one-half (1/2) inch each;

(ix)
(x)

Size H - Eighteen (18) inches by twenty-four (24) inches. There shall be a minimum of one and one-half (1 1/2) inches on the left side of the long dimension to serve as a binding edge; the three (3) remaining margins shall be three-eighths (3/8) of an inch each.

(b)

The requirement for certification of maps and plans by a registered engineer or land surveyor shall not apply, in the case of applications filed in the state engineer's office
to construct small reservoirs for stock purposes only, fishing preserve waters where the capacity of such reservoir does not exceed twenty (20) acre feet or twenty (20) feet in fill height; to develop springs for stockwater purposes of up to twenty-five (25) gallons per minute; or to construct flood water detention dams storing fifty (50) acre feet or less and not to exceed twenty (20) feet in fill height provided the dam has a minimum outlet of eighteen (18) inches diameter and the dead storage does not exceed twenty (20) acre feet
for certain small reservoirs or diversions as described in the rules promulgated by the state engineer's office
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Section 2.
W.S. 33
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139(c) and (d) is repealed.

Section 3.
This act is effective immediately upon co
m
pletion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming Constit
u
tion.

(END)

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