SB 02-156 Signed Bill

• ISF Bill Number: SB02-156
• Description: Authorization to acquire water to improve the natural environment
• ISF - Doc Type: Final Signed Legislation

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SENATE BILL 02-156

BY SENA TOR(S) Gordon, Entz, Fitz-Gerald, Hagedorn, Hernandez,
Linkhart, Nichol, Pascoe, Perlmutter, Phillips, Tate, Tupa, and Windels;
also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Smith, Bacon, Berry, Borodkin, Boyd,
Chavez, Coleman, Daniel, Grossman, Hodge, Mace, :tvladden, Plant,
Ragsdale, Romanoff, SaIiman, Sanchez, Stengel, Tochtrop, Veiga, Weddig,
and Williams S.

CONCER1'-i1NG THE AUTHORIZATION OF CHANGES OF ABSOLUTE WATER
RIGHTS FOR PURPOSES OF INSTREAM USE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:

SECTION 1. The introductory portion to 37-92-102 (3), Colorado
Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

37-92-102. Legislative declaration - basic tenets of Colorado
water law. (3) Further recognizing the need to correlate the activities of
mankind with some reasonable preservation of the natural environment, the
Colorado water conservation board is hereby vested with the exclusive
authority, on behalf of the people of the state of Colorado, to appropriate
in a manner consistent with sections 5 and 6 of article XVI of the state
constitution, such waters of natural streams and lakes as the board
determines may be required for minimum stream flows or for natural

Capital letters indicate new material added to existing statutes; dashes through words indicate
deletions from existing statutes and such material not part of act.