This bill:

• provides that a municipality has first priority to establish control of a prescriptive easement for water conveyance upon the holder of the easement filing a notice of intent to abandon;
• requires a political subdivision that desires to establish control of a prescriptive easement for water conveyance to file a notice describing the use and location of the prescriptive easement in the office of the county recorder in which the easement is located;
• allows a political subdivision to convert the use of a prescriptive easement for water conveyance if the political subdivision:
  • mails notice of the converted use of the easement to each affected landowner;
  • files a notice describing the converted use of the easement in the office of the county recorder;
  • waits 120 days from the day the political subdivision sends notice to each affected landowner;
  • receives no written objection to the converted use from an affected landowner; and
  • limits the modified use of the easement to not burden an affected landowner's use of land, interfere with an existing easement, or expand the size of the easement; and
• makes technical and conforming changes.