Title
WATER COMMISSION ACT
Proposition Summary
Creates state water commission for control of appropriation and use of waters: defines rights in riparian and unappropriated waters; prescribes procedure for investigation of waters and water rights, appropriation thereof, apportionment of same between claimants, issuance of licenses, and revocation thereof; declares present rights of municipal corporations unaffected.
Proposition Number
29
Year
1914
Document Type
Proposition
Pass/Fail
Pass
Popular Vote Results
Y: 309950; A: 50.7; N: 301817; B: 49.3
Election Type
General Election
Proposition Type
Referendum
For Author
George C. Pardee
Against Author
G. R. Freeman
Recommended Citation
WATER COMMISSION ACT California Proposition 29 (1914).
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/ca_ballot_props/62