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WY Stat § 41-3-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-101 - Nature of Water Rights and Beneficial Use.

41-3-101. Nature of water rights and beneficial use.| A water right is a right to use the water of the state, when such use has been acquired by the beneficial application of water under the laws of the state relating thereto, and in conformity with the rules and regulations dependent thereon. Beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure and limit of the right to use water at all times, not exceeding the statutory limit except as provided by W.S. 41-4-317. In addition to any beneficial use specified by law or rule and regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, the use of water for the purpose of extracting heat therefrom is considered a beneficial use subject to prior rights. Water being always the property of the state, rights to its use shall attach to the land for irrigation, or to such other purposes or object for which acquired in accordance with the beneficial use made for which the right receives public recognition, under the law and the administration provided thereby. Water rights for the direct use of the natural unstored flow of any stream cannot be detached from the lands, place or purpose for which they are acquired, except as provided in W.S. 41-3-102 and 41-3-103, pertaining to a change to preferred use, and except as provided in W.S. 41-4-514.
WY Stat § 41-3-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-102 - Preferred Uses; Defined; Order of Preference.

41-3-102. Preferred uses; defined; order of preference.| (a) Water rights are hereby defined as follows according to use: preferred uses shall include rights for domestic and transportation purposes, steam power plants, and industrial purposes; existing rights not preferred, may be condemned to supply water for such preferred uses in accordance with the provisions of the law relating to condemnation of property for public and semi-public purposes except as hereinafter provided.  (b) Preferred water uses shall have preference rights in the following order:  (i) Water for drinking purposes for both man and beast;  (ii) Water for municipal purposes;  (iii) Water for the use of steam engines and for general railway use, water for culinary, laundry, bathing, refrigerating (including the manufacture of ice), for steam and hot water heating plants, and steam power plants; and  (iv) Industrial purposes.  (c) The use of water for irrigation shall be superior and preferred to any use where water turbines or impulse water wheels are installed for power purposes; provided, however, that the preferred use of steam power plants and industrial purposes herein granted shall not be construed to give the right of condemnation.
WY Stat § 41-3-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-103 - Preferred Uses; Procedure for Change of Use.

41-3-103. Preferred uses; procedure for change of use.| Where it can be shown to the board of control under the provisions hereof, that a preferred use is to be made, the procedure for a change of such use shall embrace a public notice, an inspection and hearing if necessary by and before the proper division superintendent, a report of such superintendent to the board of control, and an order by said board. If the change of use is approved, just compensation shall be paid and under the direction of the board, proper instruments shall be drawn and recorded.
WY Stat § 41-3-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-104 - Procedure to Change Use or Place of Use.

41-3-104. Procedure to change use or place of use.| (a) When an owner of a water right wishes to change a water right from its present use to another use, or from the place of use under the existing right to a new place of use, he shall file a petition requesting permission to make such a change. The petition shall set forth all pertinent facts about the existing use and the proposed change in use, or, where a change in place of use is requested, all pertinent information about the existing place of use and the proposed place of use. The board may require that an advertised public hearing or hearings be held at the petitioner's expense. The petitioner shall provide a transcript of the public hearing to the board. The change in use, or change in place of use, may be allowed, provided that the quantity of water transferred by the granting of the petition shall not exceed the amount of water historically diverted under the existing use, nor exceed the historic rate of diversion under the existing use, nor increase the historic amount consumptively used under the existing use, nor decrease the historic amount of return flow, nor in any manner injure other existing lawful appropriators. The board of control shall consider all facts it believes pertinent to the transfer which may include the following:  (i) The economic loss to the community and the state if the use from which the right is transferred is discontinued;  (ii) The extent to which such economic loss will be offset by the new use;  (iii) Whether other sources of water are available for the new use.  (b) In all cases where the matter of compensation is in dispute, the question of compensation shall be submitted to the proper district court for determination.
WY Stat § 41-3-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-108 - Lands Taken Out of Agricultural Production or Lands Taken by Eminent Domain; Retention of Priority.

41-3-108. Lands taken out of agricultural production or lands taken by eminent domain; retention of priority.| (a) Where lands are taken out of agricultural production as the necessary result of acquisitions for railroad roadbed construction, highway construction, mining or petroleum extraction operations or industrial site acquisitions or lands taken by proceedings in eminent domain or which have become impracticable to irrigate by reason of any of the foregoing conditions, the owner of an affected water right may transfer the water right to other lands held by the owner. The petition for the change in use, or change in place of use shall be properly filed within five (5) years of the date the land went out of production because of any of the conditions specified herein. Failure to file the petition within five (5) years results in forfeiture of the right except as otherwise provided.  (b) The petition for a change in use, or change in place of use, of a water right under this section shall retain its original date of priority.  (c) For a period of five (5) years after the effective date of this act, any appropriator whose land has been out of production for more than five (5) years may petition the board requesting transfer of the water rights involved. The granting or denial of a petition under these circumstances is within the discretion of the board. The decision of the board may be appealed to the district court. The board may hold public hearings in connection with a petition being considered pursuant to this section. All costs in conjunction with the hearing shall be borne by the petitioner.
WY Stat § 41-3-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-109 - Construction of w.s. 41-3-107.

41-3-109. Construction of W.S. 41-3-107.| The provisions of this act shall be valid notwithstanding the provisions of W.S. 41-3-101.
WY Stat § 41-3-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-111 - Right to Acquire Temporary Water Rights for Highway or Railroad Roadbed Construction or Repair; Right of Owner Who Cannot Satisfy in Full His Right During Time of Diversion.

41-3-111. Right to acquire temporary water rights for highway or railroad roadbed construction or repair; right of owner who cannot satisfy in full his right during time of diversion.| The owner of any permanent water right, whether prior or subsequent in priority to that temporary right acquired by any person under this act who cannot satisfy in full his right during the time said temporary user is diverting water under its temporary water right shall have the absolute right upon demand being made upon the appropriate state water commissioner to cause such diversion to be shut off until such time as said owner's water right is satisfied, or until it is proven that the shutting down of the diversion has no effect upon owner's right.
WY Stat § 41-3-112 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-112 - Right to Acquire Temporary Water Rights for Highway or Railroad Roadbed Construction or Repair; Wrongfully Causing Diversion to Be Shut Down.

41-3-112. Right to acquire temporary water rights for highway or railroad roadbed construction or repair; wrongfully causing diversion to be shut down.| It shall be unlawful for any person to wrongfully cause a diversion made under a temporary water right required under and by virtue of this act to be shut down. Any violation of this section shall be punishable pursuant to W.S. 41-3-616.
WY Stat § 41-3-113 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 1 - Generally|Section 41-3-113 - Supplemental Supply Water Rights.

41-3-113. Supplemental supply water rights.| A supplemental supply water right is defined as a permit or certificate of appropriation for the diversion, from a stream, of water from a new source of supply for application to lands for which an appropriation of water from a primary source already exists. Such supplemental supply permits or certificates of appropriation may be allowed by the state engineer or the state board of control under such regulations or conditions as he or it may prescribe. The use and administration of presently existing rights for supplemental supply appropriations or rights for supplemental supply appropriations hereafter acquired shall hereafter be made upon the express condition that the total amount of water to be diverted at any one (1) time both under a primary appropriation of water and a supplemental supply appropriation shall not be in excess of one (1) cubic foot of water per second of time for each seventy (70) acre tract so irrigated, except that when the right to divert water under the provisions of W.S. 41-4-317 through 41-4-324, is permitted the total amount of surplus water to be diverted at any one (1) time both under a primary appropriation of water and a supplemental supply appropriation shall not be in excess of one (1) cubic foot of water per second for each seventy (70) acre tract so irrigated. Nothing herein shall be construed to apply to water stored under a reservoir permit.
WY Stat § 41-3-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-201 - Definition.

41-3-201. Definition.| 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".
WY Stat § 41-3-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-202 - Right to Acquire.

41-3-202. Right to acquire.| Anyone may lawfully acquire by purchase or through other negotiations entered into with the owner of a water right in another state or with such other state or with both such owner and state, the right to bring into Wyoming for beneficial use all or any portion of the stream flow of foreign water, as herein defined, arising without the boundaries of the state of Wyoming and flowing into this state.
WY Stat § 41-3-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-203 - Transportation in Interstate Channels.

41-3-203. Transportation in interstate channels.| The owner of the right of beneficial use of any foreign water acquired for beneficial use within the state of Wyoming may transport the same in the natural channel of any interstate stream from the state boundary line to the point in the state of Wyoming where the owner of such water desires to divert and take same from said natural stream channel, and shall have the right to divert and take from said natural stream channel, the full quantity of the foreign water which the owner thereof shall have caused to be delivered into the channel of such natural stream at the state boundary line, less that quantity of foreign water only representing loss in the transportation thereof from the state boundary line to the point of diversion in the state of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 41-3-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-204 - Duty to Supervise Delivery; Expense.

41-3-204. Duty to supervise delivery; expense.| It is hereby made the duty of the Wyoming state engineer, water division superintendents, water commissioners and deputy water commissioners, to supervise the delivery of such foreign water from the state boundary line where it enters the state of Wyoming in a natural stream channel, to the point of diversion in Wyoming; any additional expense of this supervision shall be borne by the owners of such foreign water as decided by the water officials of the state of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 41-3-205 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-205 - Rights of Owner; Priority of Claims; Subject to Appropriation and Diversion.

41-3-205. Rights of owner; priority of claims; subject to appropriation and diversion.| The owner of foreign water is hereby declared to have the exclusive right of beneficial use of such foreign water either for immediate application to beneficial use or by impounding the same in a reservoir for future application to beneficial use, as against any claim or right to appropriate any water belonging to the state of Wyoming, and against the right of any Wyoming appropriator to divert water from said interstate stream for beneficial use in Wyoming. All foreign water conveyed or allowed to flow into the state of Wyoming is hereby declared not to be subject to appropriation in Wyoming and not to be subject to diversion under any Wyoming appropriation notwithstanding the same shall flow in the channel of any natural stream within this state and notwithstanding the same may be commingled with the waters in such stream channel owned by the state of Wyoming or by appropriators under the laws of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 41-3-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-206 - Rights of Owner; Recording of Claim.

41-3-206. Rights of owner; recording of claim.| The owner of any foreign water conveyed or allowed to flow into the state of Wyoming from without the boundaries of this state shall file in the office of the secretary of the Wyoming state board of control, within the period of one (1) month before the first conveyance or flowage of such foreign water into the state of Wyoming, a certificate in writing, signed by the owner of such foreign water, specifying the former owner or owners of such foreign water, the amount thereof so acquired, the natural stream channel to be used in the state of Wyoming as a conduit for the delivery of such foreign water to the point of diversion in the state of Wyoming and also designating the point of diversion of such foreign water in the state of Wyoming.
WY Stat § 41-3-207 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-207 - Rights of Owner; Right to Divert and Use.

41-3-207. Rights of owner; right to divert and use.| The owners of foreign water may divert and use in priority order, all available water in said stream channel to which such owner may be lawfully entitled under any Wyoming appropriation to the same extent and under the same conditions as if such owner had not acquired any such foreign water.
WY Stat § 41-3-208 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-208 - Diverting From Owner Prohibited.

41-3-208. Diverting from owner prohibited.| It shall be unlawful for anyone not the owner thereof to divert and take from the natural channel of any interstate stream designated by the certificate required in W.S. 41-3-206 flowing within the state of Wyoming, any foreign water or in any manner interfere with the ability of the owner of foreign water to transport the same in the natural stream channel in Wyoming to the point of diversion and to divert the same thereat. Any violation of this section shall be punishable pursuant to W.S. 41-3-616.
WY Stat § 41-3-209 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-209 - Change of Point of Diversion; Power to Petition Generally.

41-3-209. Change of point of diversion; power to petition generally.| Any person, association or corporation having heretofore acquired a right from an adjoining state to the beneficial use of the water of any stream, entering the state of Wyoming and where the point of diversion of the appropriation is located in the adjoining state and the ditch irrigates land within the state of Wyoming, and who desires to change the point of diversion from said stream from within the adjoining state to a point within the state of Wyoming, shall petition therefor to the state board of control.
WY Stat § 41-3-210 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-210 - Change of Point of Diversion; Contents of Petition.

41-3-210. Change of point of diversion; contents of petition.| All petitions for such change of point of diversion shall be made to the state board of control setting forth the acreage in each legal subdivision of land irrigated, with the total acreage, together with a map, showing the location of the stream, the ditch, the old and new points of diversion, the new point of diversion in Wyoming to be tied to the nearest corner of the public land survey; the nature and extent of the irrigation works, their size, capacity, and length, and a certified copy of the proceedings had before the proper board, officer, or court, which has authority in the adjoining state to adjudicate water rights; amount of water adjudicated, the land for which the same was adjudicated; the date of priority, the date of adjudication, showing the existence of a valid water right, and that the same is in full force and effect.
WY Stat § 41-3-211 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-211 - Change of Point of Diversion; Endorsement and Recording of Petition.

41-3-211. Change of point of diversion; endorsement and recording of petition.| Upon receipt of the petition by the board of control, it shall be the duty of the president of said board to make an endorsement thereon of the date of its receipt, and to properly record receipt of the petition.
WY Stat § 41-3-212 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-212 - Change of Point of Diversion; Hearing.

41-3-212. Change of point of diversion; hearing.| It shall be the duty of the board of control at its next regular meeting following the receipt of such petition to examine same and ascertain if it sets forth all the facts required by W.S. 41-3-210, and the validity of the water right granted by the adjoining state. Upon it being made to appear to the satisfaction of the board of control that the requirements of law and the regulations of the board have been complied with and that the petitioner is entitled to make the proposed changes, the said petition shall be referred to the division superintendent of the proper water division for a public hearing to be held not later than one hundred and twenty (120) days, following the date so referred. The said superintendent shall, by order, require all persons interested to appear on said certain day to show cause why the petition should not be granted. The said order shall be published for four (4) consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation in the county where the proposed change of point of diversion is located; provided, that the consent of all owners of intervening diversions be secured, or that those not secured shall be notified by registered mail at least thirty (30) days prior to the hearing date. Any party who may claim injury on account of said proposed change of point of diversion shall have the right to appear before the superintendent at the public hearing as ordered, and present evidence in support of said claim. The evidence of such hearing shall be confined to the subjects enumerated in the notice for hearing. Upon completion of the taking of testimony in such hearing, it shall be the duty of the division superintendent to transmit same to the office of the board of control together with a written report setting forth the procedure followed and the results accomplished. At the next regular meeting, the board shall consider the evidence transmitted and enter a proper order either granting or denying the petition.
WY Stat § 41-3-213 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 2 - Rights to Foreign Waters|Section 41-3-213 - Change of Point of Diversion; Rights of Applicant Upon Approval; Certificate of Appropriation.

41-3-213. Change of point of diversion; rights of applicant upon approval; certificate of appropriation.| The approval of the petition shall grant to the applicant the same right in all respects as existed under the laws of the adjoining state as to land to be irrigated, amount of water, and date of priority, as fully as though the water right had originally been acquired from the state of Wyoming. No direct flow appropriation shall be recognized under this act for an amount of water in excess of the statutory limit of one (1) cubic foot per second for each seventy (70) acres of land irrigated. The board of control shall issue a certificate of appropriation to applicants under this act, and the fee for issuing it shall not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00).