45-465.01. Flood damaged acres; substitution of acres; definition
A. A person who owns acres of land within an initial active management area which were legally irrigated at any time during the five years preceding January 1, 1980 and which have not been retired from irrigation for a non-irrigation use pursuant to section 45-463 or 45-469 may permanently retire such acres from irrigation and substitute for such acres the same number of acres within the same sub-basin or a contiguous sub-basin of the same initial active management area which were not legally irrigated at any time during the five years preceding January 1, 1980, and has the right to use groundwater for the irrigation of such substitute acres as determined pursuant to section 45-465 calculated on the basis of the acres which were legally irrigated, if the owner demonstrates to the satisfaction of the director that all the following apply:
1. The acres which were irrigated during the five years preceding January 1, 1980 were damaged by floodwaters after being irrigated.
2. It is not economically feasible to restore the flood damaged acres to irrigation use.
3. The owner has received a certificate of grandfathered right for an irrigation use for the flood damaged acres.
B. Any acres permanently retired from irrigation pursuant to this section relinquish their irrigation grandfathered rights and such rights are deemed to be appurtenant to the substitute acres.
C. For purposes of this section, " floodwaters" means a temporary and erosive overflow of waters on lands not normally covered by water which occurred after January 1, 1975.
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