DIVISION 2. WATER 1000-5951›PART 2. APPROPRIATION OF WATER 1200-1851›CHAPTER 9. Licenses 1600-1675.2›ARTICLE 5. Contents and Conditions of License 1625-1631

§ 1627

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A license shall be effective for such time as the water actually appropriated under it is used for a useful and beneficial purpose in conformity with this division but no longer.

(Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

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