Except as provided in Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 1226) of this chapter, no right to appropriate or use water subject to appropriation shall be initiated or acquired except upon compliance with the provisions of this division.
Cal. Water Code § 1225
Exclusive Method of Appropriation
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case 207 Cal. App. 3d 585 - California Trout, Inc. v. State Water Resources Control Board (1989)
Most recently applied in Casitas Municipal Water District v. United States (February 2013)
Amended by Stats. 1974, Ch. 140.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.