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WY Stat § 41-3-317 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-317 - Alterations or Repairs of Dams or Diversion Systems; Liability of Owners.

41-3-317. Alterations or repairs of dams or diversion systems; liability of owners.| Nothing in this act shall be construed to relieve an owner or owners of any reservoir, dam or diversion system of any legal duties, obligations or liabilities incident to their ownership or operation of or any damages resulting from the leakage or overflow of water or for floods resulting from the failure or rupture of the fill or structure for such works.
WY Stat § 41-3-318 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-318 - Penalties, Cancellation of Permit, for Failure to Comply With w.s. 41-3-308 Through 41-3-314.

41-3-318. Penalties, cancellation of permit, for failure to comply with W.S. 41-3-308 through 41-3-314.| Failure to comply with the provisions of W.S. 41-3-308 through 41-3-314 shall subject the permit to cancellation at any time pursuant to W.S. 41-3-616(c). Failure to comply with any valid order issued by the state engineer pursuant to W.S. 41-3-308 through 41-3-314, shall subject the permit holder to penalty pursuant to W.S. 41-3-616(b).
WY Stat § 41-3-319 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-319 - Owners of Ditches and Reservoirs; General Rights.

41-3-319. Owners of ditches and reservoirs; general rights.| Each owner of a share or shares of the capital stock in an incorporated ditch company existing for the purpose of distributing water through such company's ditch to the owners of such stock, shall have the right to carry, convey and transmit reservoir water, supplementing other water rights he may possess, through the ditch of such ditch company in which he may have such stock, to the full extent of the carrying capacity represented by such stock, but no greater. Each partner in a partnership ditch owned or used for a like purpose, shall have the right to carry, convey and transmit reservoir water, supplementing other water rights he may possess, through such partnership ditch, to the full extent of the carrying capacity represented by his interest, as a partner, in such ditch, but no greater. Every such person carrying, conveying and transmitting water through such ditch, or having the same done for his benefit, shall pay all expenses incurred by reason of all extra labor in cleaning such ditch, change of division boxes, and other additional expenses made necessary by reason of carrying such reservoir water through any such ditch. The right herein granted to any person, shall also extend to the owner, manager or lessee of a reservoir, who desires to use any such ditch to carry, convey or transmit water through such ditch for the benefit of any such person to whom the right herein mentioned has been granted as aforesaid.
WY Stat § 41-3-320 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-320 - Owners of Ditches and Reservoirs; Sale or Lease of Impounded Water.

41-3-320. Owners of ditches and reservoirs; sale or lease of impounded water.| Except as otherwise provided by deed or other written instruments of the owner or owners of the right to impound water in any reservoir, such reservoir owner or owners shall, after the completion of the works in connection with such reservoir, be held to be the owner of the right to impound the water, and the right to sell or lease a portion or all his right to the impounded waters; provided, that the sale of any portion of the capacity of any reservoir shall carry with it an interest in the reservoir and works appurtenant thereto of such proportion as the portion sold bears to the total capacity of the reservoir; and provided, further, that the water stored in any reservoir cannot be used outside the boundaries of the state of Wyoming without special permit from the state engineer; and provided, further, that the state engineer may deny any use of water from any reservoir that would be detrimental to the public interest.
WY Stat § 41-3-321 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-321 - Owners of Ditches and Reservoirs; Priority of Right to Store or Impound.

41-3-321. Owners of ditches and reservoirs; priority of right to store or impound.| The priority of right to store or impound water under this act shall date from the filing of the application in the state engineer's office.
WY Stat § 41-3-322 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-322 - Owner's Report of Persons Entitled to Use Water; Superintendent's Report of Use of Water.

41-3-322. Owner's report of persons entitled to use water; superintendent's report of use of water.| The owner of each reservoir shall annually, in writing, before or during the irrigating season and before the releasing of the water from the reservoir, deliver to the water commissioner having jurisdiction over such reservoir a list or lists of parties entitled to use water from such reservoir during the irrigating season of such year, and also a list as near as may be of the lands proposed to be irrigated, and shall immediately notify such water commissioner of any changes in such list or lists. The superintendent of the water division in which such reservoir is situated shall annually on or before the first day of December in each year make a written report to the state engineer of the state, enumerating in detail the person or persons who during the irrigating season immediately preceding use any part of such reservoir water, and shall also enumerate therein the lands upon or uses for which said water was applied during such irrigating season so that the state engineer may be kept at all times advised as to whether or not such water has been applied to beneficial uses.
WY Stat § 41-3-323 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-323 - Deeds for Water Rights; Attaching of Rights to Land; Sale, Lease, Transfer or Use.

41-3-323. Deeds for water rights; attaching of rights to land; sale, lease, transfer or use.| The reservoir water and rights acquired under reservoir permits and adjudications shall not attach to any particular lands except by deed, or other sufficient instrument conveying such water or water rights, executed by the owner or owners of such reservoir, and such water and water rights, except when attached to particular lands as aforesaid, may be sold, leased, transferred and used in such manner and upon such lands as the owner of such rights or partial rights may desire, provided, that such water must be used for beneficial purposes.
WY Stat § 41-3-324 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-324 - Deeds and Leases for Water Rights; Execution and Recording.

41-3-324. Deeds and leases for water rights; execution and recording.| All deeds for reservoir water and water rights and all leases of the same for periods of three (3) years or more shall be executed and acknowledged as deeds are executed, and shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the reservoir is situated and also filed in the office of the state engineer. All leases of such water and water rights for a period less than three (3) years shall be in writing and filed in the office of the state engineer.
WY Stat § 41-3-325 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-325 - Excess Stored Water to Be Furnished Applicants; Preferences; Rates.

41-3-325. Excess stored water to be furnished applicants; preferences; rates.| The owner or owners of a reservoir impounding a greater quantity of water than the owner or owners thereof necessarily use for irrigation and other beneficial purposes in connection with their own lands shall, when application is made to them for that purpose, furnish such surplus water at reasonable rates to the owners of lands lying under and capable of being irrigated from such reservoir for the purpose of irrigating and rendering the same productive, and maintaining their productiveness, and in case of refusal so to do, the owner or owners of such reservoir may be compelled by proper proceedings to furnish such water on such reasonable terms as to the court may seem meet and proper. The water user who may have used any water from such reservoir for any particular year shall have the preference as to the use of the same water for the next ensuing year. The state engineer, the water commissioner of the particular district and the water superintendent having jurisdiction over the region of any reservoir, shall together constitute a board of special commissioners, and shall have power, when application is made to them by either party interested, to establish reasonable maximum rates to be charged for the use of water from any reservoir, whether furnished by individuals or a corporation. The establishment of such rate shall be made only after notice given and public hearing had, at which hearing the applicants may produce witnesses and evidence, and such witnesses must be sworn and may be cross-examined. No commissioner shall sit upon such board and determine such rate who is employed by one (1) of the applicants or if the relationship of debtor or creditor exists between him and one (1) of the applicants. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to deny the right to store water for use for more than one (1) year.
WY Stat § 41-3-326 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-326 - Applicability of Ownership Provisions.

41-3-326. Applicability of ownership provisions.| The provisions of this act shall apply to reservoirs heretofore lawfully constructed as well as to all reservoirs hereafter lawfully constructed.
WY Stat § 41-3-327 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-327 - Carey Act Lands.

41-3-327. Carey Act lands.| This act shall not apply to Carey Act lands or reservoirs for their irrigation, nor to any water right or rights to the use of waters of natural streams of this state, initiated from such streams and used through any such reservoir. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, excepting such as relate to Carey Act lands, are hereby repealed.
WY Stat § 41-3-328 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-328 - Witnesses' Fees and Mileage.

41-3-328. Witnesses' fees and mileage.| Every witness who shall attend before the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, or before the person appointed to take testimony in causes relating to water rights, under subpoena, by request of any party, shall be entitled to the same fees and mileage as witnesses in civil cases in the district court, and shall be paid by the party requiring the testimony.
WY Stat § 41-3-329 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 3 - Reservoirs|Section 41-3-329 - Change in Point of Diversion.

41-3-329. Change in point of diversion.| (a) The storage of water by means of a reservoir is a diversion, and the point of diversion is the point defined in the permit where the longitudinal axis of the dam crosses the center of the streambed.  (b) A change in point of diversion of a reservoir may be granted pursuant to W.S. 41-3-114 by the state engineer if the water right is unadjudicated, or by the state board of control if the water right has been adjudicated. No petition shall be granted if the rights of other appropriators shall be injuriously affected thereby or if the change is not within the original project concept. In deciding whether to grant or deny a proposed change in point of diversion of a reservoir within the original project concept, the state engineer or the board of control shall consider:  (i) The distance between the old point of diversion and the new point of diversion;  (ii) The water administration problems which may be created by granting the change in the point of diversion;  (iii) The effect of the petition upon Wyoming's entitlement to water under compacts, court decrees and treaties;  (iv) The rights of other appropriators; and  (v) The safety aspects of the new point of diversion.
WY Stat § 41-3-501 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 5 - Water Divisions and Superintendents|Section 41-3-501 - Water Divisions Defined.

41-3-501. Water divisions defined.| (a) The state of Wyoming is hereby divided into four (4) water divisions, as follows:  (i) Water Division No. 1 shall consist of all lands within this state, drained by the North Platte River, and the tributaries of the North Platte River and the South Platte River, Snake River, (a tributary of Green River) and its tributaries, and Running Water Creek and its tributaries;  (ii) Water Division No. 2 shall consist of all lands within this state, drained by the tributaries of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers north of the water shed of the North Platte River and Running Water Creek, and east of the summit of the Big Horn Mountains;  (iii) Water Division No. 3 shall consist of all lands within this state drained by the Big Horn River and its tributaries, and by Clark's Fork and its tributaries;  (iv) Water Division No. 4 shall consist of all lands within this state drained by the Green, Bear and Snake Rivers, and the tributaries thereof; except Snake River, (a tributary of Green River), and its tributaries.
WY Stat § 41-3-502 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 5 - Water Divisions and Superintendents|Section 41-3-502 - Superintendents; Appointment; Removal; Number; Qualifications; Examination.

41-3-502. Superintendents; appointment; removal; number; qualifications; examination.| There shall be one (1) superintendent for each division, who shall be appointed by the governor and who shall be a resident of the water division for which he is appointed. The governor may remove any superintendent as provided in W.S. 9-1-202. The state engineer shall from time to time conduct examinations for candidates for the position of division superintendents, and a list of those who qualify shall be filed with the governor and the governor, from that list, shall appoint division superintendents for the various divisions as vacancies occur. No candidate is eligible for appointment as division superintendent unless he is qualified by training and experience. The examination shall consist of questions relative to the irrigation laws and their administration, the measurement of flowing water, evaporation, seepage, drainage and the hydrographic features of the water division in which the candidate seeks appointment.
WY Stat § 41-3-503 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 5 - Water Divisions and Superintendents|Section 41-3-503 - Superintendents; Duties Generally.

41-3-503. Superintendents; duties generally.| Said division superintendent shall have general control over the water commissioners of the several districts within his division. He shall, under the general supervision of the state engineer, execute the laws relative to the distribution of water in accordance with the rights of priority of appropriation, and perform such other functions as may be assigned to him by the state engineer. It shall be the duty of said division superintendent to regulate and control the storage and use of water under all rights of appropriation which have been adjudicated by the board of control or by the courts, and to regulate and control the storage and use of water under all permits approved by the state engineer, whether the rights acquired thereunder have been adjudicated or not.
WY Stat § 41-3-504 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 5 - Water Divisions and Superintendents|Section 41-3-504 - Superintendents; Powers Generally.

41-3-504. Superintendents; powers generally.| Said division superintendent shall have authority to order, in writing, the construction of suitable ditches to carry the return waters from any ditch or lands to the main stream or proper waste way; he shall have the authority, and it shall be his duty, to close or cause to be closed the headgate of any person, persons or corporation so ordered, until such time as said order is complied with; he shall have authority to instruct the water commissioners in his division to brand, number or mark the headgate of any and all canals, ditches, laterals and reservoir outlets in such manner that the owner or owners of said canals, ditches, laterals or reservoir outlets may be readily determined; he shall, in the distribution of water, be governed by the provisions of law relating to water rights, but for the better discharge of his duties, he shall have authority to make such other regulations to secure the equal and fair distribution of water in accordance with the rights of priority of appropriation as may, in his judgment, be needed in his division; provided, such regulations shall not be in violation of the laws of the state, but shall be merely supplementary to and necessary to enforce the provisions of the general laws and amendments thereto.
WY Stat § 41-3-505 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 5 - Water Divisions and Superintendents|Section 41-3-505 - Superintendents; Compensation and Traveling Expenses; Full Time Devoted to Duties.

41-3-505. Superintendents; compensation and traveling expenses; full time devoted to duties.| Each division superintendent of a water division shall receive an annual salary as determined by the human resources division of the department of administration and information, payable in monthly installments in full compensation for all his services, and shall, in addition thereto, be paid his actual traveling expenses when called away from home in the performance of his duties. Such superintendents shall devote their full time to the performance of their duties as division water superintendents. Their salaries and expenses shall be paid by the state on vouchers approved by the state engineer as president of the state board of control.
WY Stat § 41-3-506 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 5 - Water Divisions and Superintendents|Section 41-3-506 - Superintendents; Appeal From Order or Regulations.

41-3-506. Superintendents; appeal from order or regulations.| Any person, ditch company, or ditch owner, who may deem himself injured or discriminated against by any such order or regulations of such division superintendent, shall have the right to appeal from the same to the state engineer, by filing with the state engineer a copy of the order or regulations complained of, and a statement of the manner in which the same injuriously affects the petitioner's interest. The state engineer shall, after due notice, hear whatever testimony may be brought forward by the petitioner, either orally or by affidavit and, through the division superintendent, shall have power to suspend, amend or confirm the order complained of.
WY Stat § 41-3-601 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 6 - Water Districts and Commissioners|Section 41-3-601 - Division of State Into Districts.

41-3-601. Division of state into districts.| The board of control shall divide the state into water districts, said water districts to be so constituted as to secure the best protection to the claimants for water and the most economical supervision on the part of the state; in laying out such districts each stream system of practicable administrative scope shall be included within a single district.
WY Stat § 41-3-602 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 6 - Water Districts and Commissioners|Section 41-3-602 - Commissioners; Appointment; Term; Removal; Filling of Vacancies; Hydrographers.

41-3-602. Commissioners; appointment; term; removal; filling of vacancies; hydrographers.| (a) The governor shall appoint a water commissioner for each water district, if needed, who shall be selected from persons recommended by the superintendent of the water division in which the water district is situated with the advice of the board of county commissioners of the county or counties, lying wholly or partly within the water district. The water commissioner shall be an employee of the state engineer. Each commissioner shall hold his office until his successor is appointed and shall have qualified, and the governor shall, by like selection and appointment, fill all vacancies which shall occur in the office of water commissioners, and may, at any time, remove any water commissioner as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.  (b) The governor may appoint a water commissioner to more than one (1) district on recommendation of the division superintendent and the county commissioners of the interested county or counties.  (c) Also, where the legislature has appropriated state funds for payment of full time water commissioners, the governor may appoint water commissioners to be known as hydrographer water commissioners for one (1) or more water districts on recommendation of the state engineer and the superintendent of the water division in which any such district is located. The governor may remove any commissioner appointed under this subsection as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
WY Stat § 41-3-603 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 41 - Water|Chapter 3 - Water Rights; Administration and Control|Article 6 - Water Districts and Commissioners|Section 41-3-603 - Commissioners; General Powers and Duties; Appeals From Decisions.

41-3-603. Commissioners; general powers and duties; appeals from decisions.| (a) The water commissioner shall, as near as may be practicable, divide, regulate and control the use of the water of all streams, springs, lakes or other sources of water within his district as will prevent the waste of water or its use in excess of the volume to which the appropriator is lawfully entitled. The water commissioner has the authority to require the filling of any reservoir whenever practical and whenever water is available for storage from the stream from which the appropriation is established.  (b) Any person who may be injured by the action or inaction of the water commissioner has the right to appeal to the division superintendent and, from his decision, the person aggrieved may appeal to the state engineer. From the decision of the state engineer, an appeal may be taken to the district court of the county where the ditch or ditches, reservoir, well or wells over which the controversy arises are situated.