Any person or persons, who shall wilfully or wantonly waste any of the waters of any stream, the waters of which are used for irrigation, to the detriment of any claimant of such water for irrigation purposes, by diverting the same for an unnecessary use or purpose, or by allowing such water to waste by running into depressions or dry channels so that the same cannot be used for irrigation, nor reach the original channel of the stream from which it has been diverted, are guilty of a misdemeanor.
Idaho Code § 18-4302
Wasting water used for irrigation
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case McKay v. Boise Project Board of Control (2005)
Most recently applied in McKay v. Boise Project Board of Control (April 2005)
I.C., § 18-4302, as added by 1972, ch. 336, § 1, p. 844.
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