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DIVISION 4 - WELLS, PUMPING PLANTS, CONDUITS AND STREAMS
CHAPTER 5 - Cuts in Banks of Streams
Section 7051.
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CA Water Code § 7051 (2025)
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7051. If the cuts were made for the purpose of irrigation, and headgates and culverts were installed which competent persons consider sufficient to restrain the water, and if great diligence was used to prevent damage, these facts may be pleaded and proved in mitigation of damages.
(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)
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