42-330. Record of boring of artesian well; contents; record and statement to be filed with register of deeds.
42-330
42-330. Record of boring of artesian well; contents; record andstatement to be filed with register of deeds.Any person sinking or boring for an artesian well shall cause to be keptthereat a record of the work, setting forth the name and post-officeaddress of the proprietor of such well, or of the person causing such wellto be sunk or bored, the name of the contractor therefor, and the name ofthe person actually in charge of the work; the particular location thereof,specifying the particular forty acres and the part thereof whereon the sameis situated; if in any city or town, the particular lot or block or othersubdivision upon which or nearest to which the same is situate; the date ofcommencement of work in sinking or boring such well (which may be thecommencement of the work of placing machinery therefor); all suspensions ofthe work and the duration and cause of such suspension; the time ofcompletion of the work or final cessation thereof; the different stratapassed through, and the depth at which each thereof shall be reached andpassed as near as may be, showing also each flow of water obtained, andeach vein of water or water-bearing strata passed through, and the depththereof, from the surface, numbering each flow or vein of waterconsecutively from the surface, and the height to which or the distancefrom the surface the water rises in such well after penetrating eachseparate flow or vein of water; and at the completion of the well, or atthe cessation of work thereon, he shall, without first closing or shuttingoff the flow therefrom, cause to be ascertained the flow thereof, if aflowing well, in cubic feet per second or decimal fractions thereof; andwithin a period of thirty days next after completion of such well, or thecessation of work thereon, the proprietor thereof shall make or cause to bemade and file in the office of the register of deeds of the county whereinthe said well is situate, a statement or certificate, verified by hisaffidavit or the affidavit of the person in charge of the work, settingforth all the matters aforesaid, the particular vein or flow of waterclaimed to be appropriated by means of said well, and the total amount ofwater so claimed to be appropriated in cubic feet per second or decimalfractions thereof, if such well be a flowing well (otherwise the distancefrom the surface at which the water customarily stands), what part or partsof such well is or are cased, and the interior diameter or diameters ofsuch casing or casings.
History: L. 1891, ch. 133, art. 4, § 10; May 20; R.S. 1923, 42-330.