42-2601 PETITION FOR CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY TO SELL WATER RIGHTS. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 42

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE -- WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

CHAPTER 26

SALE OF WATER RIGHTS

42-2601. Petition for certificate of authority to sell water rights. All persons, copartnerships, associations of persons, companies and corporations now owning or hereafter acquiring or constructing any irrigation works or reservoirs, dams, canals or other structures designed or used wholly or in part for storing, carrying or otherwise conserving or furnishing water for irrigation purposes, shall, before selling any water right therein or right to use water from such works, file with the department of water resources of the state of Idaho a map showing the location of such works and the lands to be reclaimed therefrom and the plans and specifications of construction, duly certified under oath as true and correct by a licensed engineer of the state of Idaho, and such other information as may be necessary to enable the department of water resources to determine the capacity of such irrigation works and the number of acres which may be irrigated therefrom, together with a petition for a certificate of authority to sell water rights in such works. Such petition shall state the name and address of the owner of such works, and the terms upon which water rights will be sold, and the lands which can be irrigated from such system, and there shall be attached to such petition a copy of the form of contract or deed which it is proposed to give to the purchasers of water rights in such works as evidence of their title to such water and of their interest in such works.