Article 5 - Appropriation and Use of Surface Water, 72-5-1 through 72-5-39.
- Section 72-5-1 - Application for permit; rules; surveys, etc.
- Section 72-5-2 - Existing community ditches.
- Section 72-5-3 - Application; amendment; refiling.
- Section 72-5-4 - Notice; publication.
- Section 72-5-5 - Objections to applications; publication of notice; filing of protests; definition of standing.
- Section 72-5-5.1 - Purposes.
- Section 72-5-6 - Hearing; approval; permit.
- Section 72-5-7 - Application; rejection; noncompliance with rules; conservation and public welfare.
- Section 72-5-8 - Construction of works; additional time.
- Section 72-5-9 - Supervision; inspection; completion of works; alterations.
- Section 72-5-10 - State engineer's certificate of construction.
- Section 72-5-11 - Inspection and correction of unsafe works.
- Section 72-5-12 - Failure to comply with state engineer order; penalty.
- Section 72-5-13 - Issuance of license to appropriate water.
- Section 72-5-14 - Time for construction; extension.
- Section 72-5-15 - Common use; enlargement and maintenance of works; lien for costs.
- Section 72-5-16 - Priority of liens.
- Section 72-5-17 - Excess waters; sale.
- Section 72-5-18 - Water allowance.
- Section 72-5-19 - Standards for measuring flow and volume of water.
- Section 72-5-20 - Headgates and measuring devices.
- Section 72-5-21 - Recording of permits, decrees and documents; certified copies.
- Section 72-5-22 - Transfer of water rights.
- Section 72-5-23 - Water appurtenant to land; change of place of use.
- Section 72-5-24 - Change of purpose; change of point of diversion.
- Section 72-5-24.1 - Acequias and community ditches; changes in point of diversion or place or purpose of use.
- Section 72-5-25 - Emergency; change of point of diversion; procedure.
- Section 72-5-26 - Diversion from watershed or into another stream.
- Section 72-5-27 - Artificial water; no right of continuance of supply.
- Section 72-5-28 - Failure to use water; forfeiture.
- Section 72-5-29 - Rights of residents of upper valleys of stream systems.
- Section 72-5-30 - Effect of return flow above diversion or storage works of other appropriators.
- Section 72-5-31 - Appeal; prior rights not impaired.
- Section 72-5-32 - Construction and operation of dams; state engineer authority.
- Section 72-5-33 - Federal reclamation projects; appropriation for.
- Section 72-5-34 - State transportation commission; change of water use; application, notice and hearing.
- Section 72-5-35 - State transportation commission; advance water withdrawal.
- Section 72-5-36 - State transportation commission; unused water accrual; withdrawal rate; accounting.
- Section 72-5-37 - State transportation commission; transfer of water rights to unused water; reversion.
- Section 72-5-38 - State water rights for highway purposes and airports; nonforfeiture for failure to use.
- Section 72-5-39 - Illegal application of water; injunction or other relief.