Title 42, IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE — WATER RIGHTS AND RECLAMATION

42-4005. PERMIT -- ISSUANCE -- SUFFICIENT SECURITY -- REVIEW -- APPEAL. (a) If the director finds that the well or the injection well as proposed to be constructed or altered is in the public interest, he shall issue a permit. The director may issue a permit substantially in acco…

42-4006. PERMIT APPLICATIONS -- CONSOLIDATION. The water resource board may, by regulation, provide for the consolidation of permit applications where several wells are proposed to be constructed in a geothermal area either for exploration or for development. Such regulations sha…

42-4007. WELL ABANDONMENT OR DISCONTINUANCE OF OPERATION -- NOTICE. At least five (5) days before any operation to abandon any well or injection well is commenced, the owner or operator thereof shall submit in writing a notification of intention to abandon to the director for app…

42-4008. WELL ABANDONMENT -- ORDER OF APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL. The director may, before the proposed date for commencing any abandonment operation, approve by order in writing, or, if found to be necessary, approve orally to be followed within forty-eight (48) hours by a written …

42-4009. WELL ABANDONMENT -- REPORT -- ACTION BY DIRECTOR. (a) Within five (5) days after the completion of the abandonment of any well or injection well, the owner or operator of the abandoned well or injection well shall report, in writing to the director on such form as may be…

42-4010. POWERS AND DUTIES -- PENALTIES -- ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURE. (a) The water resource board may adopt, amend, or rescind reasonable rules, regulations, and construction standards necessary to the administration of this chapter in accordance with chapter 52, title 67, Idaho Cod…

42-4011. NAME OF OWNER ON PERMIT -- TRANSFERS RESTRICTED -- PERMIT AMENDMENT, FEE. (a) No well may be owned or operated by any person whose name does not appear on the permit or permit application therefor, nor may any well be transferred to any new owner or operator unless an ap…

42-4012. RESIDENT AGENT -- ACTIONS -- HEARINGS -- APPEALS. (a) Every permit holder, owner, and operator of any well shall designate to the director an agent who resides in this state upon whom may be served all orders, notices, or permits issued by the director. (b) Any person ad…

42-4013. COOPERATIVE UNIT AGREEMENTS -- VOLUNTARY -- INVOLUNTARY. (a) Whenever the director finds that it is in the public interest and especially in the interest of the conservation of natural resources and of the protection of the geothermal resources of this state from waste, …

42-4014. LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION. This act shall be construed liberally to serve its purposes and policy.

42-4015. STATUTORY CONSTRUCTION. Whenever the masculine gender is used in this act it shall read as the masculine, feminine, or neuter genders as may be appropriate; the singular form shall also be read as referring to the plural form wherever it is appropriate to do so.