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NRS 533.430

Permits and certificates of appropriation subject to existing rights

Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Salmon River Canal Co. v. Bell Brand Ranches, Inc. (1977)

Most recently applied in 141 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 36 - SULLIVAN, P.E. v. BAKER RANCHES, INC. (August 2025)

[72a:140:1913; added 1921, 171; A 1947, 518; 1943 NCL § 7958]—(NRS A 2009, 1860)

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1. Every permit to appropriate water, and every certificate of appropriation granted under any permit by the State Engineer upon any stream or stream system which shall have been adjudicated under the provisions of NRS 533.087 to 533.235, inclusive, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be, subject to existing rights and to the decree and modifications thereof entered in such adjudication proceedings, and the same shall be subject to regulation and control by the State Engineer and the water commissioners in the same manner and to the same extent as rights which have been adjudicated and decreed under the provisions of this chapter. Every such holder of a certificate or a permit shall in like manner be subject to all of the provisions of NRS 533.270 to 533.305, inclusive, 533.465, 533.475, 533.480, 533.481, 533.482, 535.050, 536.010, 536.020 and 536.030.

2. Upon any stream or stream system that has not been adjudicated and upon which the State Engineer has heretofore granted and may hereafter grant a permit or permits to appropriate water therefrom, any and all such permitted rights to the use of water so granted shall be subject to regulation and control by the State Engineer to the same extent and in the same manner as adjudicated and permitted rights upon streams and stream systems heretofore adjudicated pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

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