Colorado § 37-80-105 - Supervision over division engineers.
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§ 37-80-105. Supervision over division engineers.
(1) The state engineer shall:
(a) Supervise the work of the division engineers;
(b) Furnish division engineers with all the data and information necessary for the proper and intelligent discharge of the duties of their offices;
(c) Require division engineers to report their official actions to him or her at suitable times; and
(d) Require division engineers to submit annual reports of the amount of water diverted from the public streams in their respective divisions and any other statistics that, in the judgment of the state engineer, will benefit the state.
Source: L. 1889: p. 373, § 4. R.S. 08: § 3324. C.L. § 1807. CSA: C. 90, § 206. CRS 53: § 147-11-5. C.R.S. 1963: § 148-11-5. L. 69: p. 1222, § 15. L. 2017: Entire section amended, (SB 17-026), ch. 47, p. 141, § 3, effective August 9.
ANNOTATION
The state engineer and those working under him act within their authority in regulating the waters stored in the reservoirs and, whenever it is made to appear that a reservoir interferes with the use by prior appropriators of such water, their authority extends to requiring that such waters be released for application to proper beneficial use by such appropriators. Cline v. Whitten, 150 Colo. 179, 372 P.2d 145 (1962).
The accuracy and completeness of the reports required by this section will constitute their value, and under this section, therefore, the commissioner must do enough work to answer the demands of the state engineer, and that seems to require him at least to be able to state at all times the amount of water being taken from the public streams in his district. Cutler v. Bd. of Comm'rs, 75 Colo. 248, 225 P. 211 (1924).
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