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Water Overflowing the Highways

43-5-303. Overflowing highways – penalty. No person or corporation shall repeatedly, willfully, or negligently cause or allow water to flow, fall, or sprinkle from any ditch, lateral, canal, waste ditch, reservoir, pond, drain, flume, or agricultural crop sprinkler system upon any public road or highway so as to damage the

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Water-Related Easements

37-86-102. Right-of-way through other lands Any person owning a water right or conditional water right shall be entitled to a right-of-way through the lands which lie between the point of diversion and point of use or proposed use for the purpose of transporting water for beneficial use in accordance with

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Most Commonly Violated Water Statutes

37-84-101. Maintenance of embankments and tail ditch The owners of any ditch for irrigation or other purposes shall carefully maintain theembankments thereof so that the waters of such ditch may not flood or damage thepremises of others, and shall make a tail ditch so as to return the water in

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Fence Law

35-46-101. Definitions As used in this article, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) “Lawful fence” is a well-constructed three barbed wire fence with substantial posts set at a distance of approximately twenty feet apart, and sufficient to turn ordinary horses and cattle, with all gates equally as good as the

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Ordinance No. 2-2015 Amended Fire Ban

ORDINANCE NO. 2-2015AMENDED FIRE BAN PURSUANT TOC.R.S.§30-15-40l(l)(n.5) AND (n.7) WHEREAS, the Montezuma County Board of Commissioners previously adopted Ordinance Nos. 1-2008 and 2-2014 regarding a fire ban, and found based upon competent evidence that the danger of forest and grass fires is high throughout the unincorporated areas of Montezuma County;

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