§ 431. — Limitation as to amount of water; qualifications of applicant.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC431]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER VI--WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
Sec. 431. Limitation as to amount of water; qualifications of
applicant
No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be
sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one
landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be
an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing
in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently
attach until all payments therefor are made.
(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, Sec. 5, 32 Stat. 389.)
Imperial Irrigation District of California; Nonapplicability of Federal
Reclamation Laws
Nonapplicability of Federal reclamation laws to lands within
Imperial Irrigation District of California, see section 4 of Pub. L. 96-
570, set out as a note under section 423e 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Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by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 title 50 App. section 568.
