Wyoming § 41-4-317 Determination of priorities to streams;
limitations on amount of water to be allotted; disposition of
excess water generally

Wyoming Statutes

§ 41-4-317 — Determination of priorities to streams; limitations on amount of water to be allotted; disposition of excess water generally

Wyoming § 41-4-317

Title 41Water

Ch. 4BOARD OF CONTROL; ADJUDICATION OF WATER RIGHTS

Art. 3ADJUDICATION

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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 41-4-317 (2026).

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At the first regular meeting of the board of control after the
completion of such measurement by the state engineer, and the
return of said evidence by said division superintendent, it
shall be the duty of the board of control to make and cause to
be entered of record in its office, an order determining and
establishing the several priorities of right to the use of
waters of said stream, and the amounts of appropriations of the
several persons claiming water from such stream, and the
character and kind of use for which said appropriation shall be
found to have been made. Each appropriation shall be determined
in its priority and amount, by the time by which it shall have
been made, and the amount of water which shall have been
supplied for beneficial purposes; provided, that such
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At the first regular meeting of the board of control after the
completion of such measurement by the state engineer, and the
return of said evidence by said division superintendent, it
shall be the duty of the board of control to make and cause to
be entered of record in its office, an order determining and
establishing the several priorities of right to the use of
waters of said stream, and the amounts of appropriations of the
several persons claiming water from such stream, and the
character and kind of use for which said appropriation shall be
found to have been made. Each appropriation shall be determined
in its priority and amount, by the time by which it shall have
been made, and the amount of water which shall have been
supplied for beneficial purposes; provided, that such
appropriator shall at no time be entitled to the use of more
water than he can make a beneficial application of on lands, for
the benefit of which the appropriation may have been secured,
and the amount of any appropriation made by reason of an
enlargement of distributing works, shall be determined in like
manner; provided, that no allotment for the direct use of the
natural unstored flow of any stream shall exceed one (1) cubic
foot per second for each seventy (70) acres of land for which
said appropriation shall be made, and provided, further, where
there may be in any stream water in excess of the total amount
of all appropriations from said stream, such excess shall be
divided among the appropriators therefrom in proportion to the
acreage covered by their respective permits, and provided, also,
that such additional water shall be beneficially used, except as
hereinafter provided.