Okla. Stat. tit. 82, § 82-105.1A
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Purpose of law - Legislative intent
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Oklahoma Statutes - Title 82. Waters and Water Rights Page 16
It is the intent of the Oklahoma Legislature that the purpose of
Section 105.1 through Section 105.32 of this title is to provide for
stability and certainty in water rights by replacing the
incompatible dual systems of riparian and appropriative water rights
which governed the use of water from definite streams in Oklahoma
prior to June 10, 1963, with an appropriation system of regulation
requiring the beneficial use of water and providing that priority in
time shall give the better right. These sections are intended to
provide that riparian landowners may use water for domestic uses and
store water in definite streams and that appropriations shall not
interfere with such domestic uses, to recognize through
administrative adjudications all uses, riparian and appropriative,
existing prior to June 10, 1963, and to extinguish future claims to
use water, except for domestic use, based only on ownership of
riparian lands.
It is the intent of the Oklahoma Legislature that the purpose of
Section 105.1 through Section 105.32 of this title is to provide for
stability and certainty in water rights by replacing the
incompatible dual systems of riparian and appropriative water rights
which governed the use of water from definite streams in Oklahoma
prior to June 10, 1963, with an appropriation system of regulation
requiring the beneficial use of water and providing that priority in
time shall give the better right. These sections are intended to
provide that riparian landowners may use water for domestic uses and
store water in definite streams and that appropriations shall not
interfere with such domestic uses, to recognize through
administrative adjudications all uses, riparian and appropriative,
existing prior to June 10, 1963, and to extinguish future claims to
use water, except for domestic use, based only on ownership of
riparian lands.
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