2020 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 12 - Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
Subchapter IX - Construction Charges
Sec. 471 - Initial payment and annual installments of charges generally
| 43 U.S.C. § 471 (2020) |
| §471. Initial payment and annual installments of charges generally |
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Any entryman or applicant shall at the time of making water-right application or entry, as the case may be, pay into the reclamation fund 5 per centum of the construction charge fixed for his land as an initial installment, and shall pay the balance of said charge in annual installments. The first of the annual installments shall become due and payable on December 1 of the fifth calendar year after the initial installment: Provided, That any water-right applicant or entryman may, if he so elects, pay the whole or any part of the construction charges owing by him within any shorter period: Provided further, That entry may be made whenever water is available, as announced by the Secretary of the Interior, and the initial payment be made when the charge per acre is established. |
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(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, §1, 38 Stat. 686.) |
| EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATION
Section comprises part of section 1 of act Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of section 1 is set out as section 472 of this title. |
| United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS |
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| Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS CHAPTER 12 - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUBCHAPTER IX - CONSTRUCTION CHARGES Sec. 471 - Initial payment and annual installments of charges generally |
| section 471 |
| 2020 |
| January 13, 2021 |
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| standard |
| 38 Stat. 686 |
