(a) The right to use water under an appropriation or permit shall be appurtenant to the land or place where it has been or is to be beneficially used, provided, that water supplied by one person to another person's property is not appurtenant to the property unless the parties so intend. An appurtenant water right shall pass with a conveyance of the land, or transfer, or by operation of law unless specifically exempted from the conveyance.
(b) With the permission of the commissioner, all or any part of an appropriation may be severed from the land to which it is appurtenant, may be sold, leased or transferred for other purposes or to other land and be made appurtenant to other land. A permit or certificate or a deed, lease, contract, assignment of permit or other instrument transferring an appropriation must be filed in the office of the commissioner and a certified copy of the instrument must be recorded in the recorder's office of the recording district in which the appropriation is located.
Structure Alaska Statutes
Title 46. Water, Air, Energy, and Environmental Conservation
Article 2. Appropriation and Use of Water.
Sec. 46.15.030. Water reserved to the people.
Sec. 46.15.037. Sale of water by the state.
Sec. 46.15.040. Right to appropriate.
Sec. 46.15.060. Existing rights.
Sec. 46.15.065. Determination of existing rights.
Sec. 46.15.080. Criteria for issuance of permit.
Sec. 46.15.090. Preference in granting permits.
Sec. 46.15.100. Terms of permit.
Sec. 46.15.110. Time for construction and completion.
Sec. 46.15.133. Notices; objections.
Sec. 46.15.140. Abandonment, forfeiture, and reversion of appropriations.
Sec. 46.15.145. Reservation of water.
Sec. 46.15.150. Preferred use.
Sec. 46.15.155. Authorization for temporary use of water.
Sec. 46.15.160. Transfer and change of appropriations.
Sec. 46.15.165. Administrative adjudications.
Sec. 46.15.166. Judicial adjudications.
Sec. 46.15.167. Effect of decision.
Sec. 46.15.168. Other actions.
Sec. 46.15.169. Federal reserved water rights.
Sec. 46.15.170. Effect of recording.