2020 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 12 - Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
Subchapter X - Payment of Construction Charges
Sec. 485h-4 - Application of State laws
43 U.S.C. § 485h-4 (2020) |
§485h–4. Application of State laws |
Nothing in sections 485h–1 to 485h–5 of this title shall be construed as affecting or intended to affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary in carrying out the provisions of such sections, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof: Provided, That the right to the use of water acquired under the provisions of such sections shall be appurtenant to the land irrigated and beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure, and the limit of the right. |
(July 2, 1956, ch. 492, §4, 70 Stat. 484.) |
EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATION
Section was not enacted as part of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 which comprises this subchapter. |
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 X - PAYMENT OF CONSTRUCTION CHARGES Sec. 485h-4 - Application of State laws |
section 485h-4 |
2020 |
January 13, 2021 |
No |
standard |
70 Stat. 484 |