US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  42
                       IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER
                            RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION
                                  CHAPTER 14
                         ADJUDICATION OF WATER RIGHTS
    42-1401A.  DEFINITIONS. The following terms are defined for purposes of
this chapter as follows:
    (1)  "Claimant" means any person asserting ownership of rights to the use
of water within the state of Idaho or on whose behalf ownership of rights to
the use of water is asserted.
    (2)  "Department" means the Idaho department of water resources.
    (3)  "Director" means collectively the director of the Idaho department of
water resources and the Idaho department of water resources.
    (4)  "Domestic use" is defined in section 42-111, Idaho Code.
    (5)  "General adjudication" means an action both for the judicial
determination of the extent and priority of the rights of all persons to use
water from any water system within the state of Idaho that is conclusive as to
the nature of all rights to the use of water in the adjudicated water system,
except as provided in section 42-1420, Idaho Code, and for the administration
of those rights.
    (6)  "Party" means any person who is a claimant or any person who is
served or joined.
    (7)  "Person" means an individual, a partnership, a trust, an estate, a
corporation, a municipal corporation, the state of Idaho or any political
subdivision, the United States, an Indian tribe, or any other public or
private entity, except that "person" does not include the director of the
department or the department.
    (8)  "Private adjudication" means an action commenced in accordance with
section 42-1404, Idaho Code, for the judicial determination of both the extent
and priority of the rights of named persons to the use of water from any water
system within the state of Idaho, for which a general adjudication has not
been commenced or completed, that binds only those persons joined in the
action and for the administration of such rights.
    (9)  "Purchaser" means any successor in interest of a claimant, whether
the interest is acquired by purchase, gift, inheritance, or other means.
    (10) "Supplemental adjudication" means an action commenced in accordance
with section 42-1424, Idaho Code, for the judicial determination of both the
extent and priority of the rights of a person to the use of water from any
water system within the state of Idaho which has been adjudicated in a general
adjudication or in a private adjudication.
    (11) "Stock watering use" means the use of water solely for livestock or
wildlife where the total diversion is not in excess of thirteen thousand
(13,000) gallons per day.
    (12) "Water system" includes all rivers, streams, lakes, springs, ground
waters, or other sources within this state, including any river system or
other source, as used in 43 U.S.C. section 666.