46-515 Department of Natural Resources; jurisdiction; power; authority.

46-515. Department of Natural Resources; jurisdiction; power; authority.The department is hereby vested with jurisdiction, power and authority, when conditions stated in section 46-516 are found to exist, to establish reclamation districts for conserving, developing and stabilizing supplies of water for domestic, irrigation, power, manufacturing and other beneficial uses as herein provided. SourceLaws 1947, c. 173, § 3, p. 526. AnnotationsThis and succeeding fourteen sections provide generally for the organization and establishment of reclamation districts as political corporate quasi-municipal subdivisions of the state. Nebraska Mid-State Reclamation District v. Hall County, 152 Neb. 410, 41 N.W.2d 397 (1950).