Nevada Code § 533.430

Permits and certificates of appropriation subject to existing rights
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1. Every permit to appropriate water, and
every certificate of appropriation granted under any permit by the State
Engineer upon any stream or stream system which shall have been adjudicated
under the provisions of NRS 533.087 to 533.235 , inclusive, shall be, and the same
is hereby declared to be, subject to existing rights and to the decree and
modifications thereof entered in such adjudication proceedings, and the same
shall be subject to regulation and control by the State Engineer and the water
commissioners in the same manner and to the same extent as rights which have
been adjudicated and decreed under the provisions of this chapter. Every such
holder of a certificate or a permit shall in like manner be subject to all of
the provisions of NRS 533.270 to 533.305 , inclusive, 533.465 , 533.475 , 533.480 , 533.481 , 533.482 , 535.050 , 536.010 , 536.020 and 536.030 .
2. Upon any stream or stream system that
has not been adjudicated and upon which the State Engineer has heretofore
granted and may hereafter grant a permit or permits to appropriate water
therefrom, any and all such permitted rights to the use of water so granted
shall be subject to regulation and control by the State Engineer to the same
extent and in the same manner as adjudicated and permitted rights upon streams
and stream systems heretofore adjudicated pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter.

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