§ 821. — State laws and water rights unaffected.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC821]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12--FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
SUBCHAPTER I--REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES
Sec. 821. State laws and water rights unaffected
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as affecting or
intending to affect or in any way to interfere with the laws of the
respective States relating to the control, appropriation, use, or
distribution of water used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses,
or any vested right acquired therein.
(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, Sec. 27, 41 Stat. 1077; renumbered pt.
I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, Sec. 212, 49 Stat. 847.)
