Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 3034 requires the Lower Valley Water District to provide to each property owner who is not receiving district sewer services but is being charged a fee to encourage connection to those services a notice containing certain explanatory information about the fee written in both English and Spanish, together with a request for a response to the notice indicating whether the owner would prefer to avoid the fee by connecting to the services or whether the owner refuses the services. The district is required to send the notice at least once a year by certified mail, return receipt requested; to continue to send notices until the district obtains and files a signed response from each owner; to maintain records of the response; and to ensure the fee is not charged to a person unless it is clear that the person is required by district rules to pay the fee.

            The bill also requires the district to suspend the fee not later than 30 days after the bill's effective date, and it prohibits the reimposition of the suspended fee on any person until the district has on file the person's signed refusal of district services.