§ 41-3-201 — Definition

Wyoming § 41-3-201

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 41: Water
• Ch. 3: WATER RIGHTS; ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL
• Art. 2: RIGHTS TO FOREIGN WATERS

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All that part and amount of the waters of an interstate stream
which, unless prevented by artificial barrier, will enter the
state of Wyoming from another state while flowing in a natural
stream channel, and which have been, or may hereafter be,
determined by final decree of the supreme court of the United
States not to be available for diversion and application to
beneficial use within the state of Wyoming, or other waters
originating outside of the state of Wyoming, and which neither
the state of Wyoming nor any Wyoming appropriator could divert
and use as against another state or appropriators therein, the
rights to which through purchase, exchange or negotiation are
acquired by anyone for beneficial use in the state of Wyoming,
and which are conveyed, imported or permitted to flow into the
state of Wyoming through the channel of any natural stream, or
otherwise, are, for the purposes of this act, hereby defined as
"foreign water".