California Water Code

§ 1024

WAT § 1024Div. 2 · Part 1 · Ch. 1.5

Statute text

(a)Nothing in this chapter authorizes the sale of any water right or the modification of any water right or contract.

(b)No right in any water, water contract, or water right shall be acquired by a use permitted under this chapter.

(c)(1) When any person entitled to the use of water under an appropriative right fails to use all or any part of the water because of water conservation efforts and leases that conserved water under this chapter, any such cessation of, or reduction in, the use of the appropriated water that is leased is deemed equivalent to a reasonable beneficial use of water to the extent of that cessation of, or reduction in, use. No forfeiture of the appropriative right to the water conserved shall occur upon the lapse of the forfeiture period applicable to water appropriated pursuant to the Water Commission Act (Chapter 586 of the Statutes of 1913, as amended) or this code, or to water appropriated prior to December 19, 1914.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 847, Sec. 3.