# C.R.S. § 37-92-306: 37-92-306. Priorities junior to prior awards - when

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## Section

- **Citation:** C.R.S. § 37-92-306
- **Heading:** 37-92-306. Priorities junior to prior awards - when
- **Jurisdiction:** Colorado
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** CO Code / Title 37 / Article 92 / Part 3 / Section 37-92-306

## Text

37-92-306. Priorities junior to prior awards - when. With respect to each division described in section 37-92-201, the priority date awarded for water rights or conditional water rights adjudged and decreed on applications for a determination of the amount and priority thereof filed in such division during each calendar year shall establish the relative priority among other water rights or conditional water rights awarded on such applications filed in that calendar year; but such water rights or conditional water rights shall be junior to all water rights or conditional water rights awarded on such applications filed in any previous calendar year and shall also be junior to all priorities awarded in decrees entered prior to June 7, 1969, or decrees entered in proceedings which were pending on such date; except that, with respect to water rights which are diverted by means of wells, the priorities for which have not been established or sought in any such decree or proceeding, if the person claiming such a water right files an application for determination of water right and priority not later than July 1, 1972, and such application is approved and confirmed, such water right, subject to the provisions of section 37-92-305 (1), shall be given a priority date as of the date of actual appropriation and shall not be junior to other priorities by reason of the foregoing provision.

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