§ 383. — Vested rights and State laws unaffected.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC383]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 383. Vested rights and State laws unaffected
Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting or intended to
affect or to in any way interfere with the laws of any State or
Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use, or distribution
of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder,
and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of
this Act, 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.
(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, Sec. 8, 32 Stat. 390.)
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, popularly known
as the Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter.
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title
note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
Codification
Section is comprised of section 8 (less proviso) of act June 17,
1902. The remainder of section 8 is classified to section 372 of this
title.
Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act
Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by
the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 390b, 421g of this title.
