California Code of Regulations
Title 23 - Waters
Division 3 - State Water Resources Control Board and Regional Water Quality Control Boards
Chapter 2 - Appropriation of Water
Article 19 - Changes of Ownership and of Address-Notices
Section 832 - Contests as to Ownership

The board will not undertake to determine contests as to ownership of rights initiated by applications to appropriate water. The board will ordinarily accept any claim asserted to ownership of an application, permit or license unless the record title holder, or an asserted successor in interest, objects. When a contest develops as to ownership the board will not ordinarily change its record until the matter is either determined by a court or adjusted to the mutual satisfaction of the parties, unless evidence of continued occupation, use, or control justifies a different course.

1. Renumbering and amendment of Section 767 to Section 832 filed 1-16-87; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 87, No. 10). For prior history, see Register 60, No. 5.

Note: Authority cited: Section 1058, Water Code. Reference: Sections 1250 and 1252, Water Code.