South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 10 - Adjudication Of Water Rights
Section 46-10-2.3 - Powers and duties of court conducting general adjudication.

46-10-2.3. Powers and duties of court conducting general adjudication.
The court conducting a general adjudication shall, in addition to exercising any other power or duty conferred by law:
(1)Confirm those rights evidenced by previous court decrees when those rights have not been forfeited, abandoned, or otherwise lost;
(2)Adjudicate the validity of all cancelled and uncancelled permits, certificates of construction, or licenses or other documents or orders purported to be granted by or under the authority of the Water Management Board or its predecessors, including the state engineer, and not heretofore adjudicated;
(3)Determine the extent and priority of and adjudicate any interest in any water right or right to the use of water of the river system or on all other sources not otherwise represented by the aforesaid permits, licenses, certificates, documents, orders, or decrees;
(4)Establish, in whatever form determined to be most appropriate by the court, one or more tabulations or lists of water rights or rights to use water which tabulations or lists may include a notation of the water right or right to use water adjudged to each party, the priority, the amount or rate, the purpose, the periods or place of use, and, as to water used for irrigation, the specific tracts of land to which it shall be appurtenant together with other conditions as may be necessary to define a right and its priority.

Source: SL 1980, ch 305, §5.

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