that portion of the use which is in accordance with the permit, or may refuse issuance of a license and void the permit.” I.C. § 42-219(8). In considering at which stage in the licensing process an applicant obtains a vested right in water, this Court has held that an “applicant gains but an inchoate right upon filing of the application which may ripen into a vested interest following proper statutory adherence.” In re Hidden Springs Trout Ranch, Inc., 102 Idaho 623, 625, 636 P.2d 745, 747 (1981) (emphasis added). However, previous Idaho cases have not addressed the precise meaning behind “proper statutory adherence.” The case law is clear that an applicant does not obtain a vested right at the point where an application is filed or the point where a permit is obtained. See, e.g., id. (<HOLDING>); A & B Irrigation Dist. v. Aberdeen-American
holding that plaintiffs may have a property interest in vested contractual rights holding that there is no vested interest upon initiating the statutory appropriation process by filing an application holding that plaintiffs had no vested interest in former interpretation of state law holding statutory amendment was not impermissibly retroactive because plaintiff did not have sufficiently vested legal right under prior statutory language holding that there is no due process right to appellate review