2025
STATE OF WYOMING
25LSO-00991SF0043
SENATE FILE NO. SF0043
Temporary water use agreements amendments.
Sponsored by: Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands &
Water Resources Interim Committee
A BILL
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1 AN ACT relating to water; extending the number of years for
2 which temporary water rights may be granted; providing
3 exceptions; amending and protecting the rights of owners of
4 permanent water rights; and providing for an effective
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9. W.S. 41-3-110(a) and 41-3-111 are amended
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14 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-00992SF00431 (a) Any person shall have the right to acquire by
2 purchase, gift or lease the right to the use of water which
3 may be embraced in any adjudicated or valid unadjudicated
4 water right, or any portion thereof, for a period of not to
5 exceed years, for
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15 The owner of any permanent water right, whether
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17 temporary right acquired by any person under this act who
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19 the time said temporary user is diverting water under its
20 temporary water right shall have the absolute right upon
21 demand being made upon the appropriate state water
22 commissioner to cause such diversion to be shut off until
23 such time as said owner's water right is satisfied, or 2025STATE OF WYOMING25LSO-00994SF0043
1 until it is proven that the shutting down of the diversion
2 has no effect upon owner's right.
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14. This act is effective July 1, 2025
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