2024 U.S. Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 12 - Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
Subchapter IX - Construction Charges
Sec. 478 - Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges
| 43 U.S.C. § 478 (2024) |
| §478. Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges |
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If any water-right applicant or entryman shall have, prior to December 5, 1924, failed to pay any installment of his construction charges when due, there shall be added to the amount unpaid a penalty of 1 per centum thereof, and there shall be added a like penalty of 1 per centum of the amount unpaid on the first day of each month thereafter so long as such default shall have continued: Provided, That the penalty of 1 per centum per month against delinquent accounts, is reduced to one-half of 1 per centum per month, as to all installments which may become due after December 5, 1924. |
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(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, §3, 38 Stat. 687; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, §4, subsec. H, 43 Stat. 703.) |
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EDITORIAL NOTES
CODIFICATION
Section consolidates first sentence of act Aug. 13, 1914, §3, with act Dec. 5, 1924, §4, subsec. H. |
| United States Code, 2024 Edition, 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. 478 - Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges |
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| 38 Stat. 687 43 Stat. 703 |
