§ 496. — Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge.
[Laws in effect as of January 7, 2003]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 7, 2003 and December 19, 2003]
[CITE: 43USC496]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XI--MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
Sec. 496. Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of
operation charge
If any water-right applicant or entryman shall be one year in
arrears in the payment of any charge for operation and maintenance and
penalties, or any part thereof, his water-right application, and if he
be a homestead entryman his entry also, shall be subject to
cancellation, and all payments made by him forfeited to the reclamation
fund, but no homestead entry shall be subject to contest because of such
arrears.
(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 688.)
Codification
Section is comprised of second sentence of section 6 of act Aug. 13,
1914. First and third sentences of such section 6 are classified to
sections 479, 493, 494, 495, 497 of this title, respectively.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 475, 511 of this title.
