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House Bill 1720 — 1955 Regular Session
Sponsor(s):
"LEIBY", "PATRICK", "BRENNAN", "BARNATOVICH", "WHITENIGHT", "REIBMAN", "GUSS", "SNIDER"
Short Title:
An Act to amend the act, approved the twenty-fourth day of June, one thousand nine hundred thirty-nine (P. L. 842), entitled "An act relating to the acquisition of rights to divert water from rivers, streams natural lakes, and ponds, or other surface waters within the Commonwealth or party within and partly without the Commonwealth; defining various words and phrases; vesting in the Water and Power Resources Board certain powers and authorities for the conservation, control and equitable use of the waters within the Commonwealth in the interests of the people of the Commonwealth; making available for public water supply purposes, water rights heretofore or hereafter acquired but not used; providing for hearings by the Water and Power Resources Board and for appeals from its decisions; fixing fees; granting to all public water supply agencies heretofore or hereafter created the right of eminent domain as to waters and the land covered by said waters; repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, including Act No. 109, P. L. 152, approved April 13, 1905, Act No. 307, P. L. 455, approved June 7, 1907, Act No. 64, P. L. 258, approved April 8, 1937," by further regulating the period within which water rights must be acquired.
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Action History:
| Referred to the Committee on Conservation and Wild Life, August 2. |
| Reported as committed, November 23. |
| Passed first reading, November 30. |
| Passed second reading, December 1. |
| Passed third reading and final passage, December 5. (188-1) |
| Recalled from the Governor, April 6. |
| Vote by which this bill passed final passage and third reading, reconsidered, April 9. |
| Passed third reading with amendments, April 9. |
| Passed finally, May 1. (180-1) |
| In the Senate |
| Referred to the Committee on Forests and Waters, Game and Fish, December 6. |
| Reported as committed, March 13, 1956. |
| Passed first reading, March 13. |
| Passed second reading, March 14. |
| Passed third reading and final passage, March 19. (47-0) |
| Senate concurred in House amendments, May 8. (47-0) |
| Approved by the Governor, May 29, 1956. |
| Act No. 612 |