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