ARTICLE 4. Waste from Artesian Wells
Article 4 enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.
§§ 300–311 · 12 sections
- § 300 For the purposes of this article, an artesian well is any artifical hole made in the ground through which water naturally flows from subterranean sources to…
- § 301 For the purposes of this article, waste is the causing, suffering, or permitting any water flowing from an artesian well, to run either: (a) Into any natural…
- § 302 The use of any water flowing from an artesian well for the irrigation of land, whenever over 5 per cent of the water received on the land for irrigation…
- § 303 Nothing in this article prevents the running of artesian water into an artificial pond or storage-reservoir, if the water is used thereafter for a beneficial…
- § 304 A beneficial use under the next preceding section shall not exceed one tenth of one miner’s inch of water per acre, perpetual flow, but the person using the…
- § 305 Any artesian well which is not capped or equipped with a mechanical appliance which will readily and effectively arrest and prevent the flow of any water from…
- § 306 The owner, tenant, or occupant of the land upon which a well which is a public nuisance under the next preceding section is situated, who causes, permits, or…
- § 307 Any person owning, possessing, or occupying any land upon which is situated an artesian well, who causes, suffers, or permits water unnecessarily to flow from…
- § 308 Each day’s continuance of waste constitutes a new offense.
- § 309 Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article is punishable for each offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not more than…
- § 310 All prosecutions for the violation of any of the provisions of this article shall be instituted in the superior court of the county where the well is situated.
- § 311 Any fine imposed under the provisions of this article may be collected as in other criminal cases, and the justice may also issue an execution upon the…