TITLE 42

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

CHAPTER 5

STOCKWATER RIGHTS

42-502.  federal agencies — stockwater rights.  No agency of the federal government shall acquire a stockwater right unless the agency owns livestock and puts the water to beneficial use. For purposes of this chapter, "stockwater rights" means water rights for the beneficial use for livestock.

History:

[42-502, added 2017, ch. 178, sec. 2, p. 409; am. 2020, ch. 253, sec. 3, p. 740.]