§ 25-1062.01.Chief Water Officer, defined; notice to appropriator; how given.

Nebraska’s injunction statutes carve out special handling for cases involving the delivery of irrigation water, and section 25-1062.01 supplies the terms that carve-out depends on. As used in this section and in sections 25-1064, 25-2159, and 25-2160, the “Chief Water Officer” means the Chief Water Officer of the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment, that officer’s successor, or any agent, servant, employee, or officer of the state currently exercising powers or duties over the administration of irrigation water, when that person or office is a party in a case where the relief sought involves delivering irrigation water.

The section also fixes where notice goes. Wherever those sections require notice to an appropriator by registered or certified letter, the address to use is the one recorded in the office of the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment under section 46-230. That eliminates any guesswork about which address controls when a party or the court needs to reach an appropriator by mail.

On its own, this section grants no injunctive relief and imposes no independent duty. It exists to make the irrigation-water provisions of section 25-1064 workable by pinning down exactly who the “Chief Water Officer” is and where official notice must be sent.