2019 California Code
Water Code - WAT
DIVISION 1 - GENERAL STATE POWERS OVER WATER
CHAPTER 1 - General State Policy
Section 101.

Universal Citation: CA Water Code § 101 (2019)
101.  

Riparian rights in a stream or watercourse attach to, but to no more than so much of the flow thereof as may be required or used consistently with this and the next preceding section, for the purposes for which such lands are, or may be made adaptable, in view of such reasonable and beneficial uses; provided, however, that nothing in this or the next preceding section shall be construed as depriving any riparian owner of the reasonable use of water of the stream to which his land is riparian under reasonable methods of diversion and use, or of depriving any appropriator of water to which he is lawfully entitled.

(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

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