BOARD02492

• Board Meeting Date: 5/23/2005
• Description: Status of Legislation
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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HOUSE BILL 05-1039

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BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Curry, 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 SENATOR(S) Isgar, Entz, Groff, Kester, Taylor, Teck, and Tochtrop.

CONCERNING THE CONDmONS PURSUANT TO WHICH LOANS OF WATER
RIGHTS MAY BE MADE FOR INS1REAM FLOW PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly olthe State olColorado:

SECTION 1. The introductory 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:

37-83-105. Owner may loan agricultural water right - loans to
Colorado water conservation board for instream flows. (2) (a) In An)-
ba~~.il 0. Gou::nty in vvlli""h thG gOv(...ll101 dGGl4.aGS A dtought C.M<...l5'-'u'l 01lb
whi",h 4uy othCJ "Ju';Ig<.IK-Y is dcc1.ucd, A water right owncu OWNER may
loan water to the Colorado water conservation board for use as instream
flows PURSUANT TO A DECREED INS1REAM 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.