WATER RIGHTS LAW INDEX
Revised November 19, 2014
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Administration and Distribution
- Altering natural streams 73-3-29
- Controlling works and measuring devices 73-5-4
- Costs and fees of civil actions 73-2-28
- Diligence claims 73-5-13
- Distribution
- Ditches and diverting works
- Entry of employees on property 73-2-20, 73-5-3
- Mutual Irrigation or water companies
- Allocating loss from forfeiture (nonuse) 73-1-4.5
- Shareholder Change applications 73-3-3.5
- Shareholder Nonuse applications 73-1-4(2)(b)
- Share ownership by other companies 73-1-13
- Share ownership by political subdivisions 73-1-19
- Share of Stock transfers 73-1-10(2)
- Penalties, administrative 73-2-26
- Penalties, criminal 73-2-27
- Private property access
- 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 73-5-15
- Waste, pollution and contamination, prevention of 73-5-9
- Water commissioners
- Watershed, determination to which source 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
- Approval of applications 73-3-8 and 73-3-10
- Assignment of applications 73-3-18
- Certificate of appropriation
- Change applications
- Commencement of work under an application 73-3-10
- Consolidation request, water right 73-3-27
- Decisions of state engineer on applications
- Due Diligence in placing water to beneficial use
- Holding water by a public water supplier considered 73-3-12
- Applicant Responsibility 73-3-12
- Other users may question 73-3-13
- Diligence Claim, filing 73-5-13
- Election (statement in lieu of proof) 73-3-16
- Exchange applications 73-3-20
- Export of water from Utah
- Extensions of time
- Approval of a change application does not 73-3-3
- 40 year plans required 73-3-12
- Electrical cooperatives special treatment 73-3-12
- Notice required after 14 years 73-3-12
- Only uses from same source may protest 73-3-12
- Public water suppliers special treatment 73-3-12
- Priority may be reduced 73-3-12
- Filed, definition 73-3-4
- Financial ability of applicant, statement of 73-3-11
- Forfeiture declared by state engineer 73-3-13
- Hearings 73-3-13
- Investigations by state engineer 73-3-8
- judicial review
- Lapsing of an application
- Livestock watering on public lands 73-3-31
- Ownership Conveyance (water rights)
- Nonuse Application 73-1-4
- Notice
- Approval or rejection of application 73-3-10
- Applicant notice method 73-3-5
- Application, by publication 73-3-6
- Application diligence challenge 73-3-13
- Change in point of diversion less than 660 feet 73-3-3
- Diligence Claim 73-5-13
- Extension of time requests 73-3-12
- Judicial Review 73-3-14
- Lapsing 73-3-18
- Nonuse Application 73-1-4
- Petition for right of entry to private property 73-3-19
- Proof due 73-3-16
- Small amount of water 73-3-5.6
- Temporary application to appropriate 73-3-5.5
- Temporary change application 73-3-3
- Power of attorney for application 73-3-5
- Priority
- Private property, entry by applicants on 73-3-19
- Proof of appropriation or change
- Effect of failure to make 73-3-12
- Procedure for making 73-3-16
- Statements in lieu of proof (election to file water users claim) 73-3-16
- protests
- Public water supplier
- Rainwater harvesting 73-3-1.5
- Received, definition 73-3-4
- Reinstatement of lapsed applications 73-3-18
- Rejection of applications 73-3-8 and 73-3-10
- Replacement wells 73-3-3 and 73-3-28
- Salts and other minerals, applications involving 73-3-8
- Segregation requests (water right) 73-3-27
- Temporary applications to appropriate water 73-3-5.5
- Time limit for completion of work 73-3-10 and 73-3-12
- Underground water
- Groundwater management plan 73-5-15
- Permission to drill prior to approval of application (rush letter) 73-3-5
- Replacement of water by junior appropriator allowed 73-3-23
- Replacement wells 73-3-3 and 73-3-28
- Report of well driller 73-3-25
- Rules and regulations for well drilling 73-3-25
- Safe yield definition 73-5-15
- Well definition 73-3-25
- Well drillers
Dam Safety
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
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 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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