§ 625. Release of unentered land from lien on noncompletion of irrigation project

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. 1916

   Pub. L. 64–319 § 3 · 39 Stat. 506

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 625

   (Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 3, 39 Stat. 508.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 3, 39 Stat. 508.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. That no unentered lands and no entered lands for which no Plans, etc., for irrigation subject to approval of the Secretary of the Interior. final certificates have been issued shall be subject to the lien or liens herein contemplated until there shall have been submitted by said irrigation district to the Secretary of the Interior, and approved by him, a map or plat of said district and sufficient detailed engineering data to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior the sufficiency of the water supply and the feasibility of the project, and which shall explain the plan or mode of irrigation in those irrigation districts where the irrigation works have not been constructed, and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate and reclaim said land and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural crops, and which shall also show the source of water to be used for irrigation Provisos. Release of lien if work not constructed. of land included in said district: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior may, upon the expiration of ten years from the date of his approval of said map and plan of any irrigation district, release from the lien authorized by this Act any unentered land or lands upon which final certificate has not issued, for which irrigation works have not been constructed and water of such district made available for Lands subject to taxes on approval of plans, etc. the land: Provided further, That in those irrigation districts already organized and whose irrigation works have been constructed and are in operation as soon as a satisfactory map, plat, and plan shall have been approved by the Secretary of the Interior, as in this Act provided, such entered and unentered lands shall be subject to all district taxes and assessments theretofore actually levied against the lands in said district and in the same manner in which lands of a like character held under private ownership are subject to hens and assessments.

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