§ 621. — Subjection of lands in State irrigation district to State laws generally.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC621]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 13--FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDED IN STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
Sec. 621. Subjection of lands in State irrigation district to
State laws generally
When in any State of the United States under the irrigation district
laws of said State there has, prior to August 11, 1916, been organized
and created or shall thereafter be organized and created any irrigation
district for the purpose of irrigating the lands situated within said
irrigation district, and in which irrigation district so created or to
be created there shall be included any of the public lands of the United
States, such public lands so situated in said irrigation district, when
subject to entry, and entered lands within said irrigation district, for
which no final certificates have been issued, which may be designated by
the Secretary of the Interior in the approval by him of the map and plat
of an irrigation district as provided in section 623 of this title, are
made and declared to be subject to all the provisions of the laws of the
State in which such lands shall be situated relating to the
organization, government, and regulation of irrigation districts for the
reclamation and irrigation of arid lands for agricultural purposes, to
the same extent and in the same manner in which the lands of a like
character held under private ownership are or may be subject to said
laws: Provided, That the United States and all persons legally holding
unpatented lands under entry made under the public land laws of the
United States are accorded all the rights, privileges, benefits, and
exemptions given by said State laws to persons holding lands of a like
character under private ownership except as in this chapter otherwise
provided: Provided further, That this chapter shall not apply to any
irrigation district comprising a majority acreage of unentered land.
(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, Sec. 1, 39 Stat. 506.)
