Colorado Water Conservation Handbook

• Year: 2004
• Title: CWCB Board Member Handbook
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Handbook containing phone numbers, addresses, statutes, rules, policies, straegic plans and Board member work plans.
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

Article III
The State Engineers of the States by
agreement, from time to time, may formulate rules and
regulations for carrying out the provisions of this
compact, which, when signed and promulgated by them,
shall be binding until amended by agreement between
them or until terminated by written notice from one to
the other.

Article IV
Whenever any official of either State is
designated to perform any duty under this compact,
such designation shall be irlterpreted to include the State
official or officials upon whom the duties now
performed by such official may hereafter devolve.

Article V
The physical and other conditions peculiar to
the La Plata River and the territory drained and served
thereby constitute the basis for this compact, and neither
of the signatory States concedes the establishment of
any general principle or precedent by the concluding of
this compact.

Article VI
This compact may be modified or terminated at
any time by mutual consent of the signatory States and
upon such termination all rights then established
hereunder shall continue unimpaired.

Article VII
This compact shall become operative when
approved by the Legislature of each of the signatory
States and by the Congress of the United States. Notice
of approval by the Legislatures shall be given by the
Governor of each State to the Governor of the other
State, and the President of the United States is requested
to give notice to the Governors of the signatory States of
approval by the Congress of the United States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, The commissioners
have signed this compact in duplicate originals, one of
which shall be deposited with the Secretary of State of
each ofthe signatory States.
Done at the city of Santa Fe, in the State of
New Mexico, this 27th day of November, in the year of
our Lord One Thousand Nirle Hundred and Twenty-
Two.
Delph E. Carpenter,
Stephen B. Davis, Jr.

Annotations: For apportionment as a question of
federal common law, see Hinderlider v. La Plata River
& Cherry Creek Ditch Co., 304 U.S. 92, 58 S. Ct. 803,
821. Ed. 774 (1938), reversing 101 Colo. 73, 70 P.2d
849 (1937).

37-63-102. Approval of compact. Said compact shall
not become binding or operative unless and until the
same has been approved by the legislature of each of the

signatory states and by the congress of the United
States, and the governor of the state of Colorado shall
give notice of the approval of said compact to the
governor ofthe state of New Mexico and to the
president of the United States.

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