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2015 Utah Code
Title 73 - Water and Irrigation
Chapter 2 - State Engineer - Division of Water Rights
- Section 1 - State engineer -- Term -- Powers and duties -- Qualification for duties.
- Section 1.1 - Division of Water Rights -- Creation -- Power and authority.
- Section 1.2 - Director of Division of Water Rights -- Appointment of state engineer.
- Section 1.3 - Report to executive director of natural resources.
- Section 1.5 - Procedures -- Adjudicative proceedings.
- Section 2 - Oath.
- Section 4 - Deputy and assistants -- Employment and salaries -- Purchase of equipment and supplies.
- Section 5 - Aid to district court.
- Section 7 - Aid to federal court.
- Section 10 - Knowledge of waterways and irrigation -- Suggestions as to amendment or enactment of laws.
- Section 11 - Records -- Certified copies -- Evidence.
- Section 12 - Seal.
- Section 13 - Attorney general and county attorneys to counsel.
- Section 14 - Fees of state engineer -- Deposited as a dedicated credit.
- Section 15 - Agreements with federal and state agencies -- Investigations, surveys or adjudications.
- Section 16 - Arbitration -- Confirmation by district court.
- Section 17 - Authorization of cooperative investigations of groundwater resources.
- Section 20 - Employees authorized to enter and cross lands -- Injuring monuments a crime.
- Section 22 - Emergency flood powers -- Action to enforce orders -- Access rights to private and public property -- Injunctive relief against state engineer's decisions -- Judicial review provisions not applicable.
- Section 23 - Emergency powers of state engineer -- Multi-county flood mitigation activities -- Termination of assistance.
- Section 23.1 - Assistance of state engineer in management of flood waters.
- Section 25 - State engineer enforcement powers.
- Section 26 - Administrative penalties.
- Section 27 - Criminal penalties.
- Section 28 - Costs and fees in civil actions.
- Section 29 - Agreement with another state -- Regulation, distribution, and administration of interstate water.
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