TITLE 42

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

CHAPTER 39

INJECTION WELLS

42-3911.  Failure to obtain required permit or submit required information — Penalty. Any owner or operator who causes to be constructed or consents either expressly or impliedly to the construction of a new deep injection well without having first obtained a permit therefor from the director of the department of water resources as provided in this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any owner or operator who causes an existing deep injection well to be modified or consents either expressly or impliedly to the modification of an existing deep injection well without having first obtained a permit therefor from the director of the department of water resources as provided in this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any owner or operator who operates and maintains a deep injection well without having first obtained a permit from the director of the department of water resources as provided in this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any owner or operator of an injection well who violates the rules and regulations of the water resource board shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each and every day that such activity is carried on in violation of this section shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

History:

[42-3911, added 1971, ch. 301, sec. 11, p. 1235; am. 1974, ch. 20, sec. 46, p. 533; am. 1984, ch. 155, sec. 12, p. 378; am. 2011, ch. 110, sec. 7, p. 290; am. 2024, ch. 20, sec. 5, p. 164.]