1. Whenever a decree determining and adjudicating the relative rights of the claimants to the use of water of a stream or stream system has been entered in the district court pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and the decree becomes final and the State Engineer has brought in that court any proceeding, either civil or of a criminal nature, concerning the administration of and for the enforcement of the provisions of the decree, and wherein the validity of the decree or any of its provisions is drawn in question by adversary parties and the decision or judgment of the court is that the decree or a part thereof is invalid, the State Engineer shall be deemed a party in interest with the right to take an appeal from such decision or judgment to the appellate court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the rules fixed by the Supreme Court pursuant to Section 4 of Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution. 2. Such appeal may be taken in the same manner as appeals in civil cases.
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