As used in this division, “useful or beneficial purposes” shall not be construed to mean the use in any one year of more than 212 acre-feet of water per acre in the irrigation of uncultivated areas of land not devoted to cultivated crops.
Cal. Water Code § 1004
Definitions and Interpretation of Division
Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.
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