WATER RIGHTS LAW INDEX
Revised August 14, 2008
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Administration and Distribution
- Controlling works and measuring devices 73-5-4
- Costs and fees of civil actions 73-2-28
- Diligence claims 73-5-13
- Distribution 73-5-3
- Ditches and diverting works
- Headgates, installation of 73-5-4
- Inspection of 73-5-7
- Measuring devices, installation of 73-5-4
- State Engineer to determine safety of 73-5-7
- Entry of employees on property 73-2-20
- Penalties, administrative 73-2-26
- Penalties, criminal 73-2-27
- Private property, entry on for distribution purposes 73-5-3
- Regulation and control by state engineer 73-5-3 and 73-5-4
- Reports of water used by users 73-5-8
- Reservoirs, see dams
- Underground water, determination of supply 73-5-1
- Waste, pollution and contamination, prevention of 73-5-9
- Water commissioners
- Watershed, determination to which source 73-5-14
- Review of decision by court 73-5-14
Appropriation
- acquiring water rights 73-3-1
- adverse possession, no right may be acquired by 73-3-1
- amendments to application 73-3-6
- applications to appropriate
- application to change point of diversion 73-3-3.5
- application to divert appropriated water into natural streams or lakes 73-3-20
- applications to replace underground water 73-3-23
- approval of applications 73-3-8 and 73-3-10
- assignment of applications 73-3-18
- certificate of appropriation
- change applications
- contents 73-3-3
- failure to obtain, penalty 73-3-3
- permanent or temporary 73-3-3
- change point of diversion place or nature of use 73-3-3
- commencement of work under an application 73-3-10
- decisions of state engineer
- definitions, “received” and “filed” 73-3-4
- diligence in placing water to beneficial use 73-3-12 and 73-3-13
- exchange applications 73-3-20
- extensions of time
- notice and hearing of requests 73-3-12
- to place water to beneficial use 73-3-12
- financial ability of applicant, statement of 73-3-11
- forfeiture of applications for lack of diligence 73-3-13
- hearings 73-3-13
- change applications 73-3-3
- extension of time requests 73-3-12
- diligence in placing water to beneficial use 73-3-13
- investigations by state engineer 73-3-8
- judicial review
- decisions involving change applications 73-3-3
- decisions on forfeiture of applications 73-3-13
- dismissal of actions 73-3-15
- extensions of time, request for 73-3-12
- order to correct or modify an application 73-3-6
- order denying well driller permit 73-3-25
- state engineer’s decisions 73-3-14 and 73-3-15
- trial de novo 73-3-15
- lapsing of an application 73-3-18
- notice
- appeal, after notice of decision 73-3-14
- approval or rejection of application 73-3-10
- change applications 73-3-3
- diligence, notice of protest by lack of 73-3-13
- extension of time requests 73-3-12
- petition for right of entry to private property 73-3-19
- proof due 73-3-16
- publication of 73-3-6
- to owner of record 73-3-5
- well driller’s permit, rejection of 73-3-25
- power of attorney for application 73-3-5
- priority
- private property, entry by applicants on 73-3-19
- proof of appropriation or change
- protests
- reinstatement of lapsed applications 73-3-18
- rejection of applications 73-3-8 and 73-3-10
- salts and other minerals, applications involving 73-3-8
- segregation of applications 73-3-27
- temporary aplications to appropriate water 73-3-5.5
- time limit for completion of work 73-3-10 and 73-3-12
- underground water
- definitions relative to wells 73-3-25
- drilling without permit, penalty 73-3-16
- permission to drill prior to approval of application 73-3-5
- replacement of water, allowed 73-3-23
- replacement wells, requirements 73-3-3 and 73-3-28
- rules and regulations for well drilling 73-3-25
- wells, permit to drill 73-3-25
- wells and well drillers, see underground water
Dam Safety
Stream Alterations
- Relocation of natural streams -- Written permit required -- Emergency work -- Violations. 73-3-29
Determination of Water Rights
- amendatory act, effective date 73-4-23
- appeals to supreme court 73-4-16
- commencement of
- costs 73-4-20
- court appointments to assist 73-4-14
- court proceedings, duty to comply 73-4-21
- disputes involving less than all claimants
- failure to file water users claim 73-4-9
- forfeiture of rights 73-4-9
- hearings
- disputes involving less than all users 73-4-23
- judgment after 73-4-15
- objections to proposed determination 73-4-13
- interstate streams 73-4-2
- judgment
- notice
- petition of water users to commence 73-4-1
- pleadings
- proposed determination
- redetermination, bond 73-4-19
- report and recommendations of state engineer 73-4-11
- revolving fund 73-4-20
- state engineer
- statements of claimants, see water user claims
- state to be a party 73-4-18
- summons
- unknown claimants, binding 73-4-22
- water users claims
Distribution, see Administration and Distribution
Exports
Geothermal Resources Conservation
General Provisions
- abandonment of right 73-1-4
- adjudicative proceedings 73-2-1.5
- appurtenant waters 73-1-11
- beneficial use
- conveyance of water rights
- corporations, mutual ownership of water stock 73-1-13
- dams and reservoirs
- contribution between joint owners 73-1-9
- eminent domain for 73-1-6
- ditches
- contributions between joint owners 73-1-9
- duties of owners to maintain 73-1-8
- eminent domain for 73-1-6
- enlargement for joint use 73-1-7
- obstruction of, penalty 73-1-15
- eminent domain for rights of way 73-1-6
- existing rights 73-1-1
- forfeiture of rights
- applications for extension of time with resume use 73-1-4
- for 5 years nonuse 73-1-4
- interference with waterworks or administering official, penalty 73-1-14
- measurement, standard units of 73-1-2
- power and authority, division of water rights 73-2-1.1
- public property, water declared to be 73-1-1
- public use, beneficial use 73-1-5
- report to executive director of natural resources 73-2-1.3
- reservoirs, see dams
- rights of way 73-1-6 and 73-1-15
- state or agencies thereof may purchase stock in water companies 73-1-19
- water companies
- bonds, issuance to cover loans from federal 73-1-18
- determination of validity 73-1-16
- loans from federal agencies 73-1-17
- watercourses, obstructing 73-1-15
Groundwater Recharge and Recovery
Impairment
Ownership
State Engineer
Title
Wastewater Reuse Act
Withdrawal of Unappropriated Water
- priority of applications, determination 73-6-2
- purpose of withdrawal 73-6-1
- restoration of right of appropriation by proclamation 73-6-2
- suspension of right of appropriation by proclamation 73-6-1
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