§ 471. — Initial payment and annual installments of charges generally.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC471]
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
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.
(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 1, 38 Stat. 686.)
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.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 475, 511 of this title.
