California Water Code
§ 1202
WAT § 1202Div. 2 · Part 2 · Ch. 1 · Art. 1
Statute text
View on leginfo.ca.govThe following are hereby declared to constitute unappropriated water:
(a)All water which has never been appropriated.
(b)All water appropriated prior to December 19, 1914, which has not been in process, from the date of the initial act of appropriation, of being put, with due diligence in proportion to the magnitude of the work necessary properly to utilize it for the purpose of the appropriation, or which has not been put, or which has ceased to be put to some useful or beneficial purpose.
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Legislative history
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.