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37-61-101. Colorado River compact.
<br />The General Assembly hereby approves the compact, designated as the "Colorado River Compact", signed at the
<br />City of Santa Fe, State of New Mexico, on the 24th day of November, A.D. 1922, by Delph E. Carpenter, as the
<br />Commissioner for the State of Colorado, under authority of and in conformity with the provisions of an act of the
<br />General Assembly of the State of Colorado, approved April 2, 1921, entitled "An Act providing for the appointment of
<br />a Commissioner on behalf of the State of Colorado to negotiate a compact and agreement between the States of
<br />Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming and between said States and the United
<br />States respecting the use and distribution of the waters of the Colorado River and the rights of said States and the
<br />United States thereto, and making an appropriation therefor.", the same being Chapter 246 of the Session Laws of
<br />Colorado, 1921, and signed by the Commissioners for the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah,
<br />and Wyoming, under legislative authority, and signed by the Commissioners for said seven States and approved by the
<br />Representative of the United States of America under authority and in conformity with the provisions of an Act of the
<br />Congress of the United States, approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between
<br />the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, respecting the disposition and
<br />apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes.", which said compact is as follows:
<br />Colorado River Compact
<br />The States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, having resolved to enter
<br />into a compact, under the Act of the Congress of the United States of America approved August 19, 1921, (42 Statutes
<br />at Large, page 171), and the Acts of the legislatures of the said states, have through their Governors appointed as their
<br />commissioners:
<br />W. S. Norviel, for the State of Arizona;
<br />W. F. McClure, for the State of California;
<br />Delph E. Carpenter, for the State of Colorado;
<br />J. G. Scrugham, for the State of Nevada;
<br />Stephen B. Davis, Jr., for the State of New Mexico;
<br />R. E. Caldwell, for the State of Utah;
<br />Frank C. Emerson, for the State of Wyoming;
<br />who, after negotiations participated in by Herbert Hoover appointed by the President as the representative of the
<br />United States of America, have agreed upon the following articles:
<br />Article I
<br />The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the
<br />waters of the Colorado River System; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to
<br />promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; and to secure the expeditious
<br />agricultural and industrial development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters and the protection of life
<br />and property from floods. To these ends the Colorado River Basin is divided into two Basins, and an apportionment of
<br />the use of part of the water of the Colorado River System is made to each of them with the provision that further
<br />equitable apportionments may be made.
<br />Article II
<br />As used in this Compact: -
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