The state engineer's certificate of approval of a livestock water tank on each normally dry stream and its tributaries shall be chronologically numbered in the order of approval and in concert with any erosion control dams approved pursuant to section 37-87-122, C.R.S. Priority of right as between such tanks located on or within the watershed of each such dry stream shall be determined by such numbers seriatim, number one being first in such right.
Source: L. 41: p. 527, § 9. CSA: C. 160, § 234. CRS 53: § 8-17-9. C.R.S. 1963: § 817-9. L. 92: Entire section amended, p. 2306, § 4, effective June 3.