US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  42
                       IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER
                            RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION
                                  CHAPTER 14
                         ADJUDICATION OF WATER RIGHTS
    42-1403.  CERTIFIED COPIES OF ALLOTMENTS. It shall be the duty of the
clerk of the district court in each of the counties of this state to prepare
at the expense of the county, and transmit without delay to the department of
water resources by express or registered mail, a certified copy of the
allotments of the various streams, made by the district court and now on file
in the offices of the district court in the various counties of the state:
provided, that said clerk may, in place of such transcript, transmit such
original records of such decrees as are recorded in books kept for that
purpose. Immediately upon receipt of said transcripts or said original
records, it shall be the duty of the department to record them in its files,
and to classify and arrange said decrees by placing all the rights to water of
one stream and its tributaries together, and the department shall send to each
watermaster a certified copy of the allotments made by the district court of
all the streams within his district. And when an allotment of the waters of a
stream shall be made by the district court, the clerk of such district court
shall immediately prepare, at the expense of the county, and transmit to the
department of water resources, a certified copy of the decree allotting such
waters. The director may issue an abstract of decreed water right which shall
describe the elements of a water right as contained in the water right decree.