Wat. Code, § 1242 · Article 4. Beneficial Use
Wat. Code, § 1242
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The storing of water underground, including the diversion of streams and the flowing of water on lands necessary to the accomplishment of such storage, constitutes a beneficial use of water if the water so stored is thereafter applied to the beneficial purposes for which the appropriation for storage was made.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.
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- Official file
- https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=WAT§ionNum=1242.
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