82a-703b. Minimum desirable streamflows; condition of appropriation right, applicability.
(a) In addition to any other limitation or condition prescribed by law or rule and regulation of the chief engineer, it shall be an express condition of each and every appropriation right, except for use of water for domestic purposes, applied for after April 12, 1984, that such right shall be subject to any minimum desirable streamflow requirements identified and established pursuant to law on or before July 1, 1990, for the source of water supply to which such right applies.
(b) All vested rights, water appropriation rights and applications for permits to appropriate water having a priority date on or before April 12, 1984, shall not be subject to any minimum desirable streamflow requirements established pursuant to law.
History: L. 1984, ch. 377, § 1; L. 1987, ch. 402, § 2; July 1.