Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
§ 390uu. Waiver of sovereign immunity
Statutory text
Consent is given to join the United States as a necessary party defendant in any suit to adjudicate, confirm, validate, or decree the contractual rights of a contracting entity and the United States regarding any contract executed pursuant to Federal reclamation law. The United States, when a party to any suit, shall be deemed to have waived any right to plead that it is not amenable thereto by reason of its sovereignty, and shall be subject to judgments, orders, and decrees of the court having jurisdiction, and may obtain review thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances. Any suit pursuant to this section may be brought in any United States district court in the State in which the land involved is situated.
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. 97–293 title II § 221 · 96 Stat. 1261
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 390uu
(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 221, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1271.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 97–293, title II, § 221, Oct. 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 1271.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 221. waiver of sovereign immunity Consent is given to join the United States as a necessary 43 USC 390uu. party defendant in any suit to adjudicate, confirm, validate, or decree the contractual rights of a contracting entity and the United States regarding any contract executed pursuant to Federal reclamation law. The United States, when a party to any suit, shall be deemed to have waived any right to plead that it is not amenable thereto by reason of its sovereignty, and shall be subject to judgments, orders, and decrees of the court having jurisdiction, and may obtain review thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as a private individual under like circumstances. Any suit pursuant to this section may be brought in any United States district court in the State in which the land involved is situated.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Federal reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 390aa of this title.