§ 440. Regulations as to use of water and requirements as to cultivation and reclamation of land; cancellation for noncompliance with requirements

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. 1914

   Pub. L. 63–247 § 8 · 38 Stat. 686

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 440

   (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 8, 38 Stat. 688.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 8, 38 Stat. 688.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 8. reclamation requirements. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to make general rules and regulations governing the use of water in the irrigation of the lands within any project, and may require the reclamation for agricultural purposes and the cultivation of one-fourth the irrigable area under each water-right application or entry within three full irrigation seasons after the filing of water-right application or entry, and the reclamation for agricultural purposes and the cultivation of one-half the irrigable area within five full irrigation seasons after the filing of the water-right application or entry, and shall provided for continued compliance with such requirements. Failure on the part of any water-right applicant or entryman to comply Penalty for noncompliance. with such requirements shall render his application or entry subject to cancellation.

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