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Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDSChapter 12 - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Subchapter XI - MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
Section 496 - Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge

43 U.S.C. § 496

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Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)
Section 496 - Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge

If any water-right applicant or entryman shall be one year in arrears in the payment of any charge for operation and maintenance and penalties, or any part thereof, his water-right application, and if he be a homestead entryman his entry also, shall be subject to cancellation, and all payments made by him forfeited to the reclamation fund, but no homestead entry shall be subject to contest because of such arrears.

43 U.S.C. § 496

Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, §6, 38 Stat. 688.

EDITORIAL NOTES

CODIFICATIONSection is comprised of second sentence of section 6 of act Aug. 13, 1914. First and third sentences of such section 6 are classified to sections 479, 493, 494, 495, 497 of this title, respectively.