85-5-102. Appointment of chief commissioner. When the judge of the district court shall appoint two or more commissioners to admeasure and distribute the waters mentioned in the preceding section, he may appoint one of them chief commissioner and empower him to exercise direction and control over the other or others in the discharge of their duties. The judge may depose the one appointed chief commissioner from that position and appoint another in his stead whenever it appears to the judge that better service may be given the water users by making the change.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 43, L. 1911; re-en. Sec. 7137, R.C.M. 1921; re-en. Sec. 7137, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 89-1002.