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2010 Utah Code
Title 73 - Water and Irrigation
Chapter 03 - Appropriation
- 73-3-1 - Appropriation -- Manner of acquiring water rights.
- 73-3-1.5 - Capture and storage of precipitation.
- 73-3-2 - Application for right to use unappropriated public water -- Necessity -- Form -- Contents -- Validation of prior applications by state or United States or officer or agency thereof.
- 73-3-3 - Permanent or temporary changes in point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use.
- 73-3-3.5 - Application for a change of point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use of water in a water company made by a shareholder.
- 73-3-4 - "Received," "filed" defined.
- 73-3-5 - Action by engineer on applications.
- 73-3-5.5 - Temporary applications to appropriate water -- Approval by engineer -- Expiration -- Proof of appropriation not required.
- 73-3-5.6 - Applications to appropriate or permanently change a small amount of water -- Proof of appropriation or change.
- 73-3-6 - Publication of notice of application -- Corrections or amendments of applications.
- 73-3-7 - Protests.
- 73-3-8 - Approval or rejection of application -- Requirements for approval -- Application for specified period of time -- Filing of royalty contract for removal of salt or minerals.
- 73-3-10 - Approval or rejection of application.
- 73-3-11 - Statement of financial ability of applicants.
- 73-3-12 - Time limit on construction and application to beneficial use -- Extensions -- Procedures and criteria.
- 73-3-13 - Protests -- Procedure.
- 73-3-14 - Judicial review of state engineer order.
- 73-3-15 - Dismissal of action for review of informal adjudicative proceedings.
- 73-3-16 - Proof of appropriation or permanent change -- Notice -- Manner of proof -- Statements -- Maps, profiles, and drawings -- Verification -- Waiver of filing -- Statement in lieu of proof of appropriation or change.
- 73-3-17 - Certificate of appropriation -- Evidence.
- 73-3-18 - Lapse of application -- Notice -- Reinstatement -- Priorities -- Assignment of application -- Filing and recording -- Constructive notice -- Effect of failure to record.
- 73-3-19 - Right of entry on private property -- By applicant -- Bond -- Priority.
- 73-3-20 - Right to divert appropriated waters into natural streams -- Requirements -- Storage in reservoir -- Information required by state engineer -- Lapse of application.
- 73-3-21.1 - Priorities between appropriators.
- 73-3-23 - Replacement of water.
- 73-3-25 - Well driller's license -- Enforcement.
- 73-3-26 - Violations -- Penalty.
- 73-3-27 - Requests for segregation or consolidation.
- 73-3-28 - Replacement wells -- Requirements -- State engineer's approval -- Application to drill -- Filing -- Form -- Contents -- Notice -- Fees -- Definition -- Plugging of old well.
- 73-3-29 - Relocation of natural streams -- Written permit required -- Emergency work -- Violations.
- 73-3-30 - Change application for an instream flow.
- 73-3-31 - Water right for watering livestock on public land.
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