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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 455a. State taxation; lands of desert-land entryman

Statutory text

The lands of any desert-land entryman located within an irrigation project constructed under the Reclamation Act and obtaining a water supply from such project, and for whose land water has been actually available for a period of four years, may likewise be taxed by the State or political subdivision thereof in which such lands are located.

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. 70–394 § 2 · 45 Stat. 439

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 455a

    Apr. 21, 1928, ch. 394, § 2, 45 Stat. 439

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Apr. 21, 1928, ch. 394, § 2, 45 Stat. 439

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the lands of any desert-land entryman located within Desert-land entrymen receiving water from irrigation project, subject to tax. an irrigation project constructed under the Reclamation Act and obtaining a water supply from such project and for whose land water has been actually available for a period of four years, may likewise be taxed by the State or political subdivision thereof in which such lands are located.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Reclamation Act, referred to in text, is identified in section 455 of this title.

Amendments

1930—Act , reenacted section without change.

Credits

1928–1930 · 2 acts
  1. 1928Apr. 21, 1928, ch. 394, § 2, 45 Stat. 439
  2. 1930June 13, 1930, ch. 477, 46 Stat. 581.
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(Apr. 21, 1928, ch. 394, § 2, 45 Stat. 439; June 13, 1930, ch. 477, 46 Stat. 581.)

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