§ 512. Release of Government liens after contract with irrigation districts

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. 1922

   Pub. L. 67–190 § 2 · 42 Stat. 541

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 512

   (May 15, 1922, ch. 190, § 2, 42 Stat. 542.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (May 15, 1922, ch. 190, § 2, 42 Stat. 542.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. That patents and water-right certificates which shall hereafter be issued under the terms of the Act entitled “An Act providing for patents on reclamation entries, and for other purposes,” approved August 9, 1912 (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page 265), for lands lying within any irrigation district with which the United States shall have contracted, by which the irrigation district agrees to make the payment of all charges for the building of irrigation works and for operation and maintenance, shall not reserve to Existing liens released. the United States a lien for the payment of such charges; and where such a lien shall have been reserved in any patent or water-right certificate issued under the said Act of Congress, the Secretary of Release of liens by water users associations in such districts, on water right applications. the Interior is hereby empowered to release such lien in such manner and form as may be deemed effective; and the Secretary of the Interior is further empowered to release liens in favor of the United States contained in water-right applications and to assent to the release of hens to secure reimbursement of moneys due to the United States pursuant to water-right applications running in favor of the water users’ association and contained in stock subscription contracts Condition. to such associations, when the lands covered by such liens shall be subject to assessment and levy for the collection of all moneys due and to become due to the United States by irrigation districts formed pursuant to State law and with which the United States shall have entered into contract therefor: Provided, That no such lien so reserved Provisos. Consent of owner to assessment, etc., by the district, required. to the United States in any patent or water-right certificate shall be released until the owner of the land covered by the lien shall consent in writing to the assessment, levy, and collection by such irrigation district, of taxes against said land for the payment to the Report to tie filed as to contracting power, etc., of the district. United States of the contract obligation: Provided further, That before any lien is released under this Act the Secretary of the Interior shall file a written report finding that the contracting irrigation district is legally organized under the laws of the State in which its lands are located, with full power to enter into the contract and to collect by assessment and levy against the lands of the district the amount of the contract obligation.

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