Title 25 — Indians
Chapter 11 — Irrigation of Allotted Lands
§ 385. Maintenance charges; reimbursement of construction costs; apportionment of cost
Statutory text
For lands irrigable under any irrigation system or reclamation project the Secretary of the Interior may fix maintenance charges which shall be paid as he may direct, such payments to be available for use in maintaining the project or system for which collected: Provided further, That all moneys expended under this provision shall be reimbursable where the Indians have adequate funds to repay the Government, such reimbursements to be made under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to apportion the cost of any irrigation project constructed for Indians and made reimbursable out of tribal funds of said Indians in accordance with the benefits received by each individual Indian so far as practicable from said irrigation project, said cost to be apportioned against such individual Indian under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe.
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. 61–140 · 36 Stat. 269
Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 385
Apr. 4, 1910, ch. 140, §§ 1, 3, 36 Stat. 270, 272
Source evidence
Code source credit
Apr. 4, 1910, ch. 140, §§ 1, 3, 36 Stat. 270, 272Pub. L. 97–293 title II § 224(f) · 96 Stat. 1261
Struck · 25 U.S.C. § 385
Pub. L. 97–293 struck out provisions requiring Secretary of the Interior to transmit annual cost accounts to Congress of all moneys expended on each irrigation project
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 97–293 struck out provisions requiring Secretary of the Interior to transmit annual cost accounts to Congress of all moneys expended on each irrigation project.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(f) The first proviso in the third paragraph of section 1 of the Act of April 4, 1910 (36 Stat. 269, 270), as amended by the Act of August 25 USC 383. 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 866, 867), is hereby repealed.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is based on sections 1 and 3 of act , and section 1 of act .
A provision in act , appropriated a specific sum for the construction, repair, etc., of ditches, reservoirs, etc., and for the pay of designated officials and employees.
Amendments1946–1982 · 2 rounds
1982
Pub. L. 97–293 struck out provisions requiring Secretary of the Interior to transmit annual cost accounts to Congress of all moneys expended on each irrigation project.
1946
Act , discontinued provisions requiring Secretary of the Interior to transmit annual cost accounts to Congress of all moneys expended on each irrigation project.
Credits
1910–1982 · 4 acts
- 1910Apr. 4, 1910, ch. 140, §§ 1, 3, 36 Stat. 270, 272
- 1914Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 222, § 1, 38 Stat. 583
- 1946Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, § 1(8), 60 Stat. 867
- 1982Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 224(f), , 96 Stat. 1273.
Show as published
(Apr. 4, 1910, ch. 140, §§ 1, 3, 36 Stat. 270, 272; Aug. 1, 1914, ch. 222, § 1, 38 Stat. 583; Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 770, § 1(8), 60 Stat. 867; Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 224(f), , 96 Stat. 1273.)