§ 333. — Extension of time for completion of irrigation works.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC333]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 9--DESERT-LAND ENTRIES
Sec. 333. Extension of time for completion of irrigation works
Any entryman under sections 321 to 323, 325, and 327 to 329 of this
title who shall show to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the
Interior or such officer as he may designate that he has in good faith
complied with the terms, requirements, and provisions of said sections,
but that because of some unavoidable delay in the construction of the
irrigating works intended to convey water to the said lands, he is,
without fault on his part, unable to make proof of the reclamation and
cultivation of said land, as required by said sections, shall, upon
filing his corroborated affidavit with the land office in which said
land is located, setting forth said facts, be allowed an additional
period of not to exceed three years, within the discretion of the
Secretary or such officer, within which to furnish proof as required by
said sections of the completion of said work.
(Mar. 28, 1908, ch. 112, Sec. 3, 35 Stat. 52; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3,
Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out
under section 1451 of this title.
``Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate''
and ``Secretary or such officer'' substituted for ``Commissioner of the
General Land Office'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3
of 1946, which abolished General Land Offices and Commissioner thereof
and transferred function of General Land Office to a new agency in
Department of the Interior to be known as Bureau of Land Management. See
section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note under
section 1 of this title.
Other Extension Periods
Act June 24, 1921, ch. 28, 42 Stat. 66, provided that desert-land
entries in certain townships in Riverside County, California, should not
be canceled prior to May 1, 1923, for failure to make annual or final
proof, that the requirements of the law should become operative from
that date, and that a further extension might be granted.
A further extension of time to make final proof on desert-land
entries in the counties of Benton, Yakima, and Klickitat, in the State
of Washington, was authorized by act Feb. 28, 1911, ch. 180, 36 Stat.
960.
Previous provisions for extension of time for making final proofs
under entries of desert lands in certain cases were made by act Aug. 4,
1894, ch. 208, 28 Stat. 226.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 334, 335, 336 of this title.
