Rules, regulations and standards

82a-706a. Rules, regulations and standards. The chief engineer shall adopt, amend, promulgate, and enforce such reasonable rules, regulations, and standards necessary for the discharge of his or her duties and for the achievement of the purposes of this act pertaining to the control, conservation, regulation, allotment, and distribution of the water resources of the state. History: L. 1957, ch. 539, § 9; L. 1977, ch. 356, § 4; January 1, 1978. Law Review and Bar Journal References: Powers and duties of chief engineer of the Kansas state board of agriculture discussed, Mike Foust, 11 W.L.J. 251, 255 (1972). Attorney General's Opinions: Reduction in amount of groundwater permitted to be pumped as condition of approval of application for change in use. 95-92. Regulations adopted by chief engineer at the request and applicable only to one groundwater management district are preempted by those which apply statewide. 98-24. Chief engineer for division of water resources is authorized to promulgate regulations regarding intensive groundwater use control areas. 2007-32. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Water right principles discussed in challenge to the authority of public wholesale water supply district. Shipe v. Public Wholesale Water Supply Dist. No. 25, 289 Kan. 160, 210 P.3d 105 (2009).