House Bill No. 750: Livestock Water Tank Act of Colorado: An Act

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SECTION 13. I thin six 1 6) mon ths after enactment hereof every owner of existing reservoirs or deans used to impound any water whatso- ever for stock watering purpose's, shall notify the State Engineer in writing on forms prepared by the State Engineer, of the name of such dam or reservoir,ithe general location thereof with reference to section, township and range-, the capacity and height of dam and date of the completion thereof'. All such stock watering reservoirs or dams constructed before the effective date of this Act, and reported to the State Engineer'as herein provided; shall be assigned a priority number according to the date of completion as shown by the notice, specified in this paragraph; to the .State Engineer: In the event of doubt as to the.date of completion or because of any controversy with respect there- to, the State Engineer may in his discretion require further and satis- factory proof of such date of completion: _} SECTION 14 No reservoir for stock watering purposes having a capacity of,more than ten '(10) acre feet or�havirig a dam more than fifteen (15) feet iii vertical height from the bottom of the channel to the bottom of the' spillway, shall hereafter be constructed in this state except that the plans and specifications for the saim shall have first - -been approved by the.State Engineer and filed in his office; and the State Engineer shall act as consulting engineer during the construction" r thereof, and shall have - aa thority to require the material used and the { work of construction to be done to his satisfaction; and no work shall �. be deemed complete under the' provisions, of this law until the State � 1 Engineer shall furnish to the owners of such structures a Written' state � went of the work of construction and the full completion thereof, to- , gather with his acceptance of the same, which statement shall_ specify the � dimensions of such dam and oapacity of such reservoir; SECTION 15i The owner of any dam,or reservoir f�iling,to comply With the provisions of this Act shall be subject to a penalty of not more than twenty -five dollars 025.•00) nor less than five dollars. ('5600) to be recovered and disposed of as pr oP ded in Section 92, Chapter 90, 1935 Colorado Statutes Annotated: 5 SECTION 16. 'All acts or party of acts inconsistent or in conflict herewith are hereby repealed: SECTION 17:" The General Assembly hereby finds,' determines and de- clares this Act to be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health and safety. SECTION 18. In the opinion of the General Assembly an energency exists; therefore; this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.- "4