Any division engineer, or the division engineer's deputy or assistant, who willfully neglects or refuses, after being called upon, to promptly measure water from the stream or other source of supply into the irrigating canals or ditches, in the division engineer's division, according to their respective priorities, to the extent to which water may be actually necessary for the irrigation of lands under such canals or ditches commits a petty offense.
C.R.S. § 37-84-122
Section 803(2) of chapter 462 (SB 21-271), Session Laws of Colorado 2021, provides that the act changing this section applies to offenses committed on or after March 1, 2022.