85-5-206. Effect of order fixing fees. After the order of the court fixing the fees and compensation and expenses of the water commissioner is final, it shall have all the force and effect of a judgment as against the person to whom the water was admeasured and for whose benefit it was used. When such expense of commissioner or commissioners has been assessed against the land for which such service of the commissioner or commissioners has been rendered, it shall constitute a lien against said land. Execution may issue upon the order, as upon a judgment, by direction of the court or judge upon the application of any person interested therein. The water commissioner, at his discretion, may withhold further admeasurement or distribution of water to any person otherwise entitled thereto until such person shall have paid all fees, compensation, and expenses of such water commissioner or commissioners so fixed by the court and apportioned and charged to such person and likewise may withhold the admeasurement and distribution of water from any land against which there exists any such lien as aforesaid, until such lien shall have been fully discharged.

     History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 43, L. 1911; re-en. Sec. 7149, R.C.M. 1921; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 125, L. 1925; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 39, L. 1929; re-en. Sec. 7149, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 89-1014.