C.R.S. Section 37-92-306
Priorities junior to prior awards

  • when
With respect to each division described in section 37-92-201, the priority date awarded for water rights or conditional water rights adjudged and decreed on applications for a determination of the amount and priority thereof filed in such division during each calendar year shall establish the relative priority among other water rights or conditional water rights awarded on such applications filed in that calendar year; but such water rights or conditional water rights shall be junior to all water rights or conditional water rights awarded on such applications filed in any previous calendar year and shall also be junior to all priorities awarded in decrees entered prior to June 7, 1969, or decrees entered in proceedings which were pending on such date; except that, with respect to water rights which are diverted by means of wells, the priorities for which have not been established or sought in any such decree or proceeding, if the person claiming such a water right files an application for determination of water right and priority not later than July 1, 1972, and such application is approved and confirmed, such water right, subject to the provisions of section 37-92-305 (1), shall be given a priority date as of the date of actual appropriation and shall not be junior to other priorities by reason of the foregoing provision.

Source: Section 37-92-306 — Priorities junior to prior awards - when, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-37.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

37‑92‑101
Short title 37‑92‑102
Legislative declaration - basic tenets of Colorado water law 37‑92‑103
Definitions 37‑92‑201
Water divisions 37‑92‑202
Division engineers 37‑92‑203
Water judges - jurisdiction 37‑92‑204
Water clerks - duties 37‑92‑301
Administration and distribution of waters 37‑92‑302
Applications for water rights or changes of such rights - plans for augmentation 37‑92‑303
Rulings by the referee 37‑92‑304
Proceedings by the water judge 37‑92‑305
Standards with respect to rulings of the referee and decisions of the water judge - definitions 37‑92‑306
Priorities junior to prior awards - when 37‑92‑306.1
Relation back of priority date 37‑92‑308
Substitute water supply plans - special procedures for review - water adjudication cash fund - legislative declaration 37‑92‑309
Interruptible water supply agreements - special review procedures - rules - water adjudication cash fund - legislative declaration - definitions 37‑92‑310
Colorado water rights protection act - short title - legislative declaration - limitation on actions 37‑92‑311
Industrial hemp cultivation allowed under an agricultural water right 37‑92‑401
Tabulations of priorities and decennial abandonment lists 37‑92‑402
Special procedures for the 1978 tabulation and abandonment list 37‑92‑501
Jurisdiction over water - rules and regulations 37‑92‑501.5
Special procedures with respect to plans for augmentation 37‑92‑502
Orders as to waste, diversions, or distribution of water 37‑92‑503
Enforcement - injunction 37‑92‑504
Treble damages 37‑92‑601
Disposition of pending proceedings - showings of reasonable diligence 37‑92‑602
Exemptions - presumptions - stream restoration projects - report - legislative declaration - definitions
Green check means up to date. Up to date

Current through Fall 2024

§ 37-92-306’s source at colorado​.gov