§ 503. — "Unusual or emergency conditions" defined.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC503]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XI--MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
Sec. 503. ``Unusual or emergency conditions'' defined
The term ``unusual or emergency conditions'', as used in section 502
of this title, shall be construed to mean canal bank failures, generator
failures, damage to transmission lines; or other physical failures or
damage, or acts of God, or of the public enemy, fires, floods, drought,
epidemics, strikes, or freight embargoes, or conditions, causing or
threatening to cause interruption in water or power service.
(June 26, 1948, ch. 676, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 1052.)
