73-4-9. Failure to file statement -- Relief.
The filing of each statement by a claimant shall be considered notice to all persons of the
claim of the party making the same, and any person failing to make and deliver such statement of
claim to the clerk of the court within the time prescribed by law shall be forever barred and
estopped from subsequently asserting any rights, and shall be held to have forfeited all rights to
the use of the water theretofore claimed by him; provided, that any claimant, upon whom no
other service of said notice shall have been made than by publication in a newspaper and as
required in Section 45-1-101, may apply to the court for permission to file a statement of claim
after the time therefor has expired, and the court may extend the time for filing such statement,
not exceeding six months from the publication of said notice; but, before said time is extended,
the applicant shall give notice by publication in a newspaper having general circulation and as
required in Section 45-1-101 on such river system or near the water source to all other persons
interested in the water of such river system or water source, and shall make it appear to the
satisfaction of the court that during the pendency of the proceedings he had no actual notice
thereof in time to appear and file a statement and make proof of his claim; and all parties
interested may be heard as to the matter of his actual notice of the pendency of such proceedings.
Amended by Chapter 388, 2009 General Session
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