Before permission to make such a change is granted the petitioner shall establish, to the satisfaction of the board, and it shall find, that the change will not operate to the injury of any legal user of the water involved.
Cal. Water Code § 1702
Change to an Application, Permit, or License
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 136 Cal. App. 4th 674 - State Water Resources Control Board Cases (2006)
Most recently applied in San Luis Unit Food Producers v. United States (March 2013)
Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.
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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.