[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC512]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XII--CONTRACTS WITH STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS FOR PAYMENT OF
CHARGES
Sec. 512. Release of Government liens after contract with
irrigation districts
Patents and water-right certificates which shall be issued after May
15, 1922, under the terms of subchapter XIV of this chapter, for lands
lying within any irrigation district with which the United States shall
have contracted, by which the irrigation district agrees to make the
payment of all charges for the building of irrigation works and for
operation and maintenance, shall not reserve to the United States a lien
for the payment of such charges; and where such a lien shall have been
reserved in any patent or water-right certificat
