Gunnison news-champion., 1921-07-01
An ORDINANCE

PROVIDING FOR THE DIVER
SION AND USE OF WATER FROM
THE TOWN DITCHES: PREScRIB-
ING RATES, RULES. AND REGu-
LATGoSs THEREFOR; FIXING PEN
hLTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF
SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS:
AND REPEALING AN ORDINANCE
ENTITLED CONCERNING bitches"
PASSED SEPTEMBER /. 1883. AND
ALL OTHER ORDINANCES OR
PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CON
FLIcr HEREWITH
BE IT ordained by the Board Of
Trustees Of the Town OF Gunnison.
Colorado:
SECTION That for the purposes
OF this ordinance the term water
user" shall be taken to include any
person. arm. o-partnership. Associa-
tion. or corporation owning and hav-
ing It'll. To lots or other parcels OF
land within the corporate limits of
the Town OF Gunnison. Colorado. or
having the possession and use thereof
under lease or otherwise and divert
ing water from the town bitches for
domestic or irrigation purposes or
both The term town bitches" shall
be taken to include the main ditch.
and all other bitches and iaterals
owned and operated by the Town of
Gunnison ms the surface water and
Irrigation system Of said town; and
the water herein referred to shall in
ciude all the water delivered to said
bitches under the decreed water rights
OF said town
SEC. Any water user may divert
water from the town bitches for do
mestic or irrigation purposes or both
subject to the limitations regulations
and restrictions hereinafter contained.
SIC. J. No water user after the
hrst day of May. 1929. shall divert
water from the town bitches for frrI-
eating more than fve lots of ground.
lot being taken as twenty-five feet
by one hundred and twenty-five feet
In area or tract of land equivalent
thereto In area, without Hrst having
obtained permission from the Board of
Trustees as hereinafter provided: and
II any water user shall apply water
diverted from the town ditches to
more than fve lots of ground without
such permission. II shall be conclusive
ly presumed that he is dIverting and
using more water from the town
bitches than he is entitled to receive.
Any water user desiring TO divertt
water from the town bitches to irri-
gate more than the fve lots of ground |
herein specified. shall on or before
the nrst day of May. 1922. and on or |
before the first day of May of eachf
year thereafter. file a written aplica-
tion with the Town Clerk and Record
er asking permission to irrigate from
tie town bitches any additional land. |
Said application shall give a descrip- |
tion OF the land which applicant
wishes to irrigate. the nature of the i
crop he expects to raise. and the
amount of water he desires to divert
from the town bitches for use thereon.
The Board of Trustees shall consider
all such applications filed with the
Town Clerk at the regular meeting orf
said board In May OF each year, and |
said board may grant or refuse anyt
application or approve the application
A. to part of the land described there-t
In and reject It as to the remaining |
parcels of land. II any such applica- |
tion be granted. the applicant shall re-
ccive from the Board OF Trustees al
written permit which shall contain al
of the land which may be !,
irrigated under said permit: and there
upon. and before said applicant is
permitted to divert any water under |
said permit. he shall pay to the Town
Treasurer two dollars for each lot or
tract OF land equivalent TO twenty |
feet by one hundred and twenty i've |
feet In area. or fraction thereof, de-
ncrtbed in said permit. Any permit
granted pursuant to this section shall |
lapse on the first day Of May follow