Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
§ 503. “Unusual or emergency conditions” defined
Statutory text
The term “unusual or emergency conditions”, as used in section 502 of this title, shall be construed to mean canal bank failures, generator failures, damage to transmission lines; or other physical failures or damage, or acts of God, or of the public enemy, fires, floods, drought, epidemics, strikes, or freight embargoes, or conditions, causing or threatening to cause interruption in water or power service.
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. 80–676 § 2 · 62 Stat. 1052
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 503
(June 26, 1948, ch. 676, § 2, 62 Stat. 1052.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 26, 1948, ch. 676, § 2, 62 Stat. 1052.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. The term “unusual or emergency conditions”, as used in this “Unusual or emergency conditions.” Act, shall be construed to mean canal bank failures, generator failures, damage to transmission lines; or other physical failures or damage, or acts of God. or of the public enemy, fires, floods, drought, epidemics, strikes, or freight embargoes, or conditions, causing or threatening to cause interruption in water or power service.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 26, 1948, ch. 676, § 2, 62 Stat. 1052.)