Montana Code Annotated
Part 4. Utilization of Water
85-2-418. Purchaser not to sell surplus water

85-2-418. Purchaser not to sell surplus water. Sections 85-2-415 through 85-2-417 may not be construed to give the person acquiring the right to the use of water, as provided in those sections, the right to sell or dispose of the water after being used by the person or to prevent the original owner or proprietor from retaking, selling, and disposing of the water in the usual and customary manner after it is used as provided in those sections.
History: En. Sec. 4, p. 407, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 745, 5th Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 1266, 5th Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; re-en. Sec. 1900, Civ. C. 1895; re-en. Sec. 4863, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 7116, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7116, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 89-826; amd. Sec. 2765, Ch. 56, L. 2009.

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 85. Water Use

Chapter 2. Surface Water and Ground Water

Part 4. Utilization of Water

85-2-401. Priority -- recognition and confirmation of changes in appropriations issued after July 1, 1973

85-2-402. Changes in appropriation rights -- definition

85-2-403. Transfer of appropriation right

85-2-404. Abandonment of appropriation right

85-2-405. Procedure for declaring appropriation rights abandoned

85-2-406. District court supervision of water distribution

85-2-407. Temporary changes in appropriation right

85-2-408. Temporary change authorization for instream flow -- additional requirements

85-2-409. Repealed

85-2-410. Short-term lease of appropriation right

85-2-411. Water turned into natural channels

85-2-412. Return of surplus water to stream

85-2-413. Diversion of natural flow of waters -- when permitted

85-2-414. Conduction of water

85-2-415. Owners of water to sell surplus

85-2-416. Duty of purchaser to dig ditches

85-2-417. Enforcement of right to surplus

85-2-418. Purchaser not to sell surplus water

85-2-419. Salvaged water

85-2-420. Change in appropriation right for aquifer recharge or mitigation -- marketing

85-2-421. Purpose

85-2-422. Repealed

85-2-423. Water right ownership update form

85-2-424. Filing

85-2-425. Repealed

85-2-426. Fee

85-2-427. Terminated

85-2-428. through 85-2-430 reserved

85-2-431. Penalty

85-2-432. through 85-2-435 reserved

85-2-436. Instream flow to protect, maintain, or enhance streamflows to benefit fishery resource -- change in appropriation rights

85-2-437. Repealed

85-2-438. Repealed

85-2-439. Repealed

85-2-440. Repealed

85-2-441. Temporary use of a water right on state trust land -- restrictions on state ownership -- rescinding of noncompliant ownership interests required