Good morning! The third part in my series of posts addresses some proposed changes to irrigation district transfer rules.
Currently, when an individual transfers the place of use of a water right any supplemental rights must be transferred with it or canceled. However, the statutes controlling irrigation districts do not explicitly allow for transfer of supplemental rights when primary rights are transferred. OWRD would like to update the irrigation district statutes, specifically ORS 540.570 and 540.580 to bring them in line with other transfer statutes.
The attendees had few substantive comments and generally agreed that a change in statutory language would be appropriate.
