Montana Code Annotated (2001)
Table of Contents / TITLE 85. WATER USE / CHAPTER 2. SURFACE WATER AND GROUND WATER
Part 4. Utilization of Water
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85-2-401 - Priority -- recognition and confirmation of changes in appropriations issued after July 1, 1973
85-2-402 - Changes in appropriation rights
85-2-403 - Transfer of appropriation right
85-2-404 - Abandonment of appropriation right
85-2-405 - Procedure for declaring appropriation rights abandoned
85-2-406 - District court supervision of water distribution
85-2-407 - Temporary changes in appropriation right
85-2-408 - Temporary change authorization for instream flow -- additional requirements
85-2-409 - Temporary change validity -- limitations
85-2-410 - Short-term lease of appropriation right
85-2-411 - Water turned into natural channels
85-2-412 - Return of surplus water to stream
85-2-413 - Diversion of natural flow of waters -- when permitted
85-2-414 - Conduction of water
85-2-415 - Owners of water to sell surplus
85-2-416 - Duty of purchaser to dig ditches
85-2-417 - Enforcement of right to surplus
85-2-418 - Purchaser cannot sell surplus water
85-2-419 - Salvaged water
85-2-421 - Purpose
85-2-422 - Definition
85-2-423 - Water right transfer certificate
85-2-424 - Filing
85-2-425 - Repealed
85-2-426 - Fee
85-2-431 - Penalty
85-2-436 - Water leasing study
85-2-437 - Department designation of eligible stream reaches
85-2-438 - Lease validity
85-2-439 - Upper Clark Fork River basin instream flow pilot program
85-2-440 - Upper Clark Fork River basin change and lease validity -- limitations