Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power
§ 821. State laws and water rights unaffected
Statutory text
Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as affecting or intending to affect or in any way to interfere with the laws of the respective States relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses, or any vested right acquired therein.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 66–285 · 41 Stat. 1063
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 821
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 27, 41 Stat. 1077
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 27, 41 Stat. 1077
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Credits
1920–1935 · 2 acts
- 1920June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 27, 41 Stat. 1077
- 1935renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847.
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(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 27, 41 Stat. 1077; renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847.)