17-625.   Irrigation corporations; operations authorized.Corporations may be organized for the purpose of constructing,maintaining and operating dams, reservoirs, sluices, ditches and canals, todivert, convey, store and deliver water to be used by such corporations, orby any other persons, for the purpose of irrigating land. Any suchcorporation is authorized to construct, maintain and operate a dam orreservoir with sluices, canals and ditches for the purpose of conveying,storing and delivering water, either upon or away from a running stream ofwater, or both, but subject to the prior rights of all persons to the useof the water and to the rights of all persons to land.

      History:   L. 1933, ch. 155, § 1; March 22.