STATE LAND LAWS 

 SECS. 373-374 IRRIGATION PLANS AND APPROVAL. 



visions of this chapter. (Laws '05, p. 114, sec. 3 ; sec. 6731 

 Rem.-Bal. ; 271 sec. 379 Pierce.) 



See post, sees. 380-381. 



SEC. 373. LAND COMMISSIONER DISCRETION. 



Immediately upon the receipt of any proposal as designated 

 in section 371, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands to examine the same and ascertain if it complies in form 

 with the rules adopted by him as provided in section 371. If it 

 does not it is to be returned for correction ; and if not corrected 

 within sixty days, it may be rejected by the Commissioner of 

 Public Lands. The Commissioner of Public Lands shall deter- 

 mine whether or not the proposed works are feasible and the 

 water provided is adequate, and whether the proposed irrigation 

 works described in the maps, plans and specifications, are ade- 

 quate for the irrigation of the lands intended to be irrigated. 

 When a request or proposal is not approved by the Commissioner 

 of Public Lands, he shall notify the party making such request 

 or proposal of his disapproval thereof, and the party so notified 

 shall have sixty days in which to make a satisfactory proposal, 

 but the Commissioner of Public Lands may, at his discretion, 

 extend the time six months. (Laws '05, p. 114, sec. 4; sec. 

 6732 Rem.-Bal. ; 271 sec. 381 Pierce.) 



SEC. 374. APPROVAL. 



If the plans and specifications for the proposed irrigation 

 works and the furnishing of a perpetual water supply for the 

 irrigation of said lands is approved by the Commissioner of 

 Public Lands, the said Commissioner of Public Lands is author- 

 ized and empowered to enter into a contract with the party sub- 

 mitting the proposal, which contract shall contain complete 

 specifications of the location, dimensions and character of the 

 proposed ditch, canal or other irrigation work ; the price per 

 acre at which perpetual water rights shall be sold to the settler 

 or owner, which price may be paid in a lump sum or in ten an- 

 nual payments, as the settler or owner may elect ; the amount of 

 water to be supplied and the price of the annual maintenance 



