43-338. LEASING OF WATER RIGHTS INSIDE THE DISTRICT BY AN IRRIGATION DISTRICT WHERE THE LANDOWNER CANNOT RECEIVE WATER THROUGH THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM. An irrigation district shall have the right to lease, to any municipality, municipal provider, public utility or domestic water users organization which furnishes water service to lands lying within the district, or to any other entity providing water service for uses other than culinary purposes those water rights which the landowner does not receive through the irrigation system of the district because the landowner has no ditch, pipeline or other transmission facility for carrying water from the district’s system to his land.
History:
[43-338, added 1983, ch. 68, sec. 4, p. 152; am. 1997, ch. 401, sec. 3, p. 1278.]