82a-703a. Minimum streamflows; duties of chief engineer. Whenever the legislature enacts legislation establishing a minimum desirable streamflow for any watercourse in this state, the chief engineer shall withhold from appropriation that amount of water deemed necessary to establish and maintain for the identified watercourse the desired minimum streamflow.
History: L. 1980, ch. 332, § 2; L. 1984, ch. 379, § 21; L. 1985, ch. 338, § 1; July 1.