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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

§ 464. Increases of charges on failure to make water-right application

Statutory text

In all cases where application for water right for lands in private ownership or lands held under entries not subject to the reclamation law shall not be made within one year after , or within one year after notice issued in pursuance of section 419 of this title, in cases where such notice has not been issued prior to , the construction charges for such land shall be increased 5 per centum each year until such application is made and an initial installment is paid.

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. 63–247 § 9 · 38 Stat. 686

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 464

    (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 9, 38 Stat. 689.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 9, 38 Stat. 689.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. lands not subject to reclamation act. That in all cases where application for water right for Additional charges on lands not subject to reclamation Act. lands in private ownership or lands held under entries not subject to the reclamation law shall not be made within one year after the passage of this Act, or within one year after notice issued in pursuance Vol. 32, p. 389. of section four of the reclamation Act, in cases where such notice has not heretofore been issued, the construction charges for such land shall be increased five per centum each year until such application is made and an initial installment is paid.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 472 of this title.

Credits

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 9, 38 Stat. 689.)

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