The board may determine, in the proceedings provided for in this chapter, all rights to water of a stream system whether based upon appropriation, riparian right, or other basis of right.
Cal. Water Code § 2501
General Provisions
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case Rowland v. Ramelli (1979)
Most recently applied in Rylance v. Ellis (January 1996)
Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.
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.