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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 390ff. Certification of compliance

Statutory text

As a condition to the receipt of irrigation water for lands in a district which has a contract as specified in section 390cc of this title, each landowner and lessee within such district shall furnish the district, in a form prescribed by the Secretary, a certificate that they are in compliance with the provisions of this subchapter including a statement of the number of acres leased, the term of any lease, and a certification that the rent paid reflects the reasonable value of the irrigation water to the productivity of the land. The Secretary may require any lessee to submit to him, for his examination, a complete copy of any such lease executed by each of the parties thereto.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 97–293 title II § 206 · 96 Stat. 1261

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 390ff

    (Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 206, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1266.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 206, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1266.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 206. certification As a condition to the receipt of irrigation water for lands in a district which has a contract as specified in section 203, each landowner and lessee within such district shall furnish the district, in a form prescribed by the Secretary, a certificate that they are in compliance with the provisions of this title including a statement of the number of acres leased, the term of any lease, and a certification that the rent paid reflects the reasonable value of the irrigation water to the productivity of the land. The Secretary may require any lessee to submit to him, for his examination, a complete copy of any such lease executed by each of the parties thereto.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 206, , 96 Stat. 1266.)

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