PUB00026

• Year: 1968
• Title: Water Conservation Agencies of The State of Colorado
• CWCB Section: Water Conservation & Drought Planning
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Applicable State statutes and summary information about each water conservation district in the State of Colorado
• Publications - Doc Type: Historical

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over. in and to the waters of the interstate streams in this
state. (1937).

(11) To acquire by grant, purchase, bequest, devise, or
lease, any real property or interest therein for the purpose
of the prevention or control of floods, or to acquire by
eminent domain any real property or interest therein with
respect to any project specifically authorized by the united
States congress for the prevention or control of floods. in-
cluding but not limited to easements and rights of way for
ingress into and egress from such project, with the power in
either event to lease such lands or interest therein to agen-
cies of the federal government or to the state or any agency
or political subdivision thereof for the construction. opera-
tion. or maintenance of flood control and prevention facilities.

(12) In general. to take such action and have such powers
as may be incidental to the foregoing specific provisions and
to the general purposes of this article. (1967).

149-1-12. Warrants for salaries and expenses. - The state
controller is authorized and directed to draw warrants monthly
in payment of the lawful salaries and expenses of the board,
or commissioners, and its or their legal, engineering and
other assistants and employees on vouchers signed by the
secretary of the board and approved by the governor. (1937).

149-1-13. Authoritv of commissioners under prior laws. -
All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, relating to
the appointment of commissioners for negotiating compacts
respecting the waters of interstate streams are hereby re-
pealed: provided. that such repeal shall not affect the
authority of any commissioners now engaged in the process of
negotiating any interstate compact respecting the waters of
any interstate stream of this state. nor affect the validity
of any such compact when so negotiated. (1937).

149-1-14. Water studies. - The Colorado water conservation
board is hereby authorized and directed to forthwith make, or
cause to be made, a continuous study of the water resources
of the state of Colorado, and a continuous study of the present
and potential uses thereof to the full extent necessary to a
unified and harmonious development of all waters for bene-
ficial use in Colorado to the fullest extent possible under
the law. including the law created by compacts affecting the
use of said water. The studies so to be made shall include
analyses of the extent to which water may be transferred from