Appropriation and Use of Surface Water

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Section
72-5-1

Application for permit; rules; surveys, etc.

Section
72-5-2

Existing community ditches.

Section
72-5-3

Application; amendment; refiling.

Section
72-5-4

Notice; publication.

Section
72-5-5

Objections to applications; filing of protests; definition of standing.

Section
72-5-5.1

Purposes.

Section
72-5-6

Hearing; approval; permit.

Section
72-5-7

Application; rejection; noncompliance with rules; conservation and public welfare.

Section
72-5-8

Construction of works; additional time.

Section
72-5-9

Supervision; inspection; completion of works; alterations.

Section
72-5-10

[State engineer's certificate of construction.]

Section
72-5-11

Inspection and correction of unsafe works.

Section
72-5-12

Failure to comply with state engineer order; penalty.

Section
72-5-13

[Issuance of license to appropriate water.]

Section
72-5-14

Time for construction; extension.

Section
72-5-15

[Common use; enlargement and maintenance of works; lien for costs.]

Section
72-5-16

[Priority of liens.]

Section
72-5-17

Excess waters; sale.

Section
72-5-18

Water allowance.

Section
72-5-19

[Standards for measuring flow and volume of water.]

Section
72-5-20

Headgates and measuring devices.

Section
72-5-21

[Recording of permits, decrees and documents; certified copies.]

Section
72-5-22

[Transfer of water rights.]

Section
72-5-23

Water appurtenant to land; change of place of use.

Section
72-5-24

Change of purpose; change of point of diversion.

Section
72-5-24.1

Acequias and community ditches; changes in point of diversion or place or purpose of use.

Section
72-5-25

Emergency; change of point of diversion; procedure.

Section
72-5-26

[Diversion from watershed or into another stream.]

Section
72-5-27

Artificial water; no right of continuance of supply.

Section
72-5-28

Failure to use water; forfeiture.

Section
72-5-29

[Rights of residents of upper valleys of stream systems.]

Section
72-5-30

[Effect of return flow above diversion or storage works of other appropriators.]

Section
72-5-31

[Appeal; prior rights not impaired.]

Section
72-5-32

Construction and operation of dams; state engineer authority.

Section
72-5-33

Federal reclamation projects; appropriation for.

Section
72-5-34

State transportation commission; change of water use; application, notice and hearing.

Section
72-5-35

State transportation commission; advance water withdrawal.

Section
72-5-36

State transportation commission; unused water accrual; withdrawal rate; accounting.

Section
72-5-37

State transportation commission; transfer of water rights to unused water; reversion.

Section
72-5-38

[State water rights for highway purposes and airports; nonforfeiture for failure to use.]

Section
72-5-39

Illegal application of water; injunction or other relief.