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Upper Colorado River Compact <br />37 -62 -101. <br />Upper Colorado River compact. <br />37 -62 -102. <br />When compact operative. <br />37 -62 -103. <br />Interstate agency created by compact. <br />37 -62 -104. <br />Appointment of Colorado member of commission. <br />37 -62 -105. <br />Payment of expenses of commission. <br />37 -62 -106. <br />Administrative code inapplicable. <br />37 -62 -101. Upper Colorado River compact. The general assembly hereby ratifies the compact among the <br />states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, and Arizona, designated as the "Upper Colorado river <br />basin compact and signed in the city of Santa Fe, state of New Mexico, on the 11th day of October, A. D. <br />1948, by Clifford H. Stone, commissioner for the state of Colorado, Fred E. Wilson, commissioner for the <br />state of New Mexico, Edward H. Watson, commissioner for the state of Utah, L. C. Bishop, commissioner <br />for the state of Wyoming, Charles A. Carson, commissioner for the state of Arizona, and approved by Harry <br />W. Bashore, representative of the United States of America. Said compact is as follows: <br />Article I <br />(a) The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment <br />of the use of the waters of the Colorado river system, the use of which was apportioned in perpetuity to the <br />upper basin by the Colorado river compact; to establish the obligations of each state of the upper division <br />with respect to the deliveries of water required to be made at Lee ferry by the Colorado river compact; to <br />promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; to secure the expeditious <br />agricultural and industrial development of the upper basin, the storage of water and to protect life and <br />property from floods. <br />(b) It is recognized that the Colorado river compact is in full force and effect and all of the <br />provisions hereof are subject thereto. <br />Article II <br />As used in this compact: <br />(a) The term "Colorado river system" means that portion of the Colorado river and its tributaries <br />within the United States of America. <br />(b) The term "Colorado river basin" means all of the drainage area of the Colorado river system and <br />all other territory within the United States of America to which the waters of the Colorado river system shall <br />be beneficially applied. <br />(c) The term "states of the upper division" means the states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and <br />Wyoming. <br />(d) The term "states of the lower division" means the states of Arizona, California and Nevada. <br />(e) The term "Lee ferry" means a point in the main stream of the Colorado river one mile below the <br />mouth of the Paria river. <br />(f) The term "upper basin" means those parts of the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah <br />and Wyoming within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado river system above Lee ferry, <br />and also all parts of said states located without the drainage area of the Colorado river system which are now <br />or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the Colorado river system above Lee ferry. <br />(g) The term "lower basin" means those parts of the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New <br />Mexico and Utah within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado river system below Lee <br />ferry, and also all parts of said states located without the drainage area of the Colorado river system which <br />are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the Colorado river system below <br />Lee ferry. <br />(h) The term "Colorado river compact" means the agreement concerning the apportionment of the <br />use of the waters of the Colorado river system dated November 24, 1922, executed by commissioners for the <br />