Section § 851

Explanation

This law states that if a legal decision is made about water rights in a certain area, everyone involved in the case and their future connections—like family, employees, or new property owners—are bound by that decision. This includes anyone who has or wants rights to use groundwater in that area, as long as they were included in the original case.

The judgment in a comprehensive adjudication conducted pursuant to this chapter shall be binding on the parties to the comprehensive adjudication and all their successors in interest, including, but not limited to, heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, lessees, licensees, the agents and employees of the parties to the comprehensive adjudication and all their successors in interest, and all landowners or other persons claiming rights to extract groundwater from the basin whose claims have not been exempted and are covered by the notice provided in the comprehensive adjudication.