§ 485h-4. — Application of State laws.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC485h-4]
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
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, Sec. 4, 70 Stat. 484.)
Codification
Section was not enacted as part of the Reclamation Project Act of
1939 which comprises this subchapter.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 485h-2, 485h-3, 485h-5 of
this title.
