The Department shall review triennially every appropriation and use of water for which a required permit is granted, to ascertain if the appropriation and use of water is being made according to quantity limitations and other conditions established by permit. Unless a permit is for the periodic appropriation or use of water for agricultural purposes, the Department shall correct a permit where the total quantity of water permitted to be appropriated and used is not used or needed.

Added by Acts 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., c. 4, § 1. Amended by Acts 1988, c. 384; Acts 1990, c. 6, § 2. Renumbered from Natural Resources § 8-811 by Acts 1995, c. 488, § 1, eff. July 1, 1995.

Formerly Art. 96A, § 18A.