LEG00097

• Bill Number: HB05-1039
• Year: 2005
• Title: Concerning the conditions pursuant to which loans of water rights may be made for instream flow purposes
• Legislation - Doc Type: Other CWCB Related Bills - Passed

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HOUSE BILL 05-1039

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BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Cuny, Berens, Boyd, Buescher, Carroll T.,
Cerbo, Crane, Frangas, Gallegos, Garcia, Green, Harvey, Hodge, Larson,
Lindstrom, Madden, Marshall, Massey, McFadyen, Merrifield, Paccione,
Plant, Pommer, Ragsdale, Romanoff, Rose, Solano, and Todd;
also SENA TOReS) Isgar, Entz, Groff, Kester, Taylor, Teck, and Tochtrop.

CONCERNING THE CONDITIONS PURSUANT TO WHICH LOANS OF WATER
RIGHTS MAY BE MADE FOR INSTREAM FLOW PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. The introductol)' portion to 37-83-105 (2) (a),
Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended, and the said 37-83-105 (2) (a) is
further amended BY THE ADDITION OF THE FOLLOWING NEW
SUBPARAGRAPHS, to read:

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37-83-105. Owner may loan agricultural water right - loans to
Colorado water conservation board for instream flows. (2) (a) hI an;
bA..5in 01 GOtmty in ~hich the g,OvGU'iOl dC,.lMG.5 4. d:iou~h.t GIH(..lgGfi"Y 01 in.
vvhid, an} OthCI emc;l~cncy is dcGlll1cd, A water right ovvncls OWNER may
loan water to the Colorado water conservation board for use as instream
flows PURSUANT TO A DECREED INSTREAM FLOW WATER RIGHT HELD BY THE
BOARD for a period not to exceed one hundred twenty days, subject to the

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