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2012 Nebraska Revised Statutes
Chapter 70 - POWER DISTRICTS AND CORPORATIONS
70-669 - Streams; inferior rights; acquired by superior right; how compensated.

Universal Citation:
NE Code § 70-669 (2012)
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70-669. Streams; inferior rights; acquired by superior right; how compensated.

No inferior right to the use of the waters of this state shall be acquired by a superior right without just compensation therefor to the inferior user. The just compensation paid to those using water for power purposes shall not be greater than the cost of replacing the power which would be generated in the plant or plants of the power user by the water so acquired.

Source
    Laws 1933, c. 86, § 7, p. 349;
    Laws 1941, c. 138, § 1, p. 545;
    C.S.Supp.,1941, § 70-707;
    R.S.1943, § 70-669.

Annotations
Right to use of waters for power purposes cannot be acquired by a superior right for irrigation purposes without payment of just compensation. Hickman v. Loup River P. P. Dist., 173 Neb. 428, 113 N.W.2d 617 (1962).

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