1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to water; requiring new landscape irrigation 
  1.3             systems to have furnished and installed moisture or 
  1.4             rainfall sensing equipment; proposing coding for new 
  1.5             law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 103G. 
  1.6   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.7      Section 1.  [103G.298] [LANDSCAPE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS.] 
  1.8      All new automatically operated landscape irrigation systems 
  1.9   shall have furnished and installed technology that inhibits or 
  1.10  interrupts operation of the landscape irrigation system during 
  1.11  periods of sufficient moisture.  The technology must be 
  1.12  adjustable either by the end user or the professional 
  1.13  practitioner of landscape irrigation services. 
  1.14     <b>[EFFECTIVE DATE.]</b> This section is effective July 1, 2003.