§ 622. — Cost of construction and maintenance of irrigation project as charge on land.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC622]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 13--FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDED IN STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
Sec. 622. Cost of construction and maintenance of irrigation
project as charge on land
The cost of constructing, acquiring, purchasing, or maintaining the
canals, ditches, reservoirs, reservoir sites, water, water right,
rights-of-way, or other property incurred in connection with any
irrigation project under said irrigation district laws shall be
equitably apportioned among lands held under private ownership, lands
legally covered by unpatented entries, and unentered public lands
included in said irrigation district. Officially certified lists of the
amounts of charges assessed against the smallest legal subdivision of
said lands shall be furnished to the officer designated by the Secretary
of the Interior of the land district within which the lands affected are
located as soon as such charges are assessed; but nothing in this
chapter shall be construed as creating any obligation against the United
States to pay any of said charges, assessments, or debts incurred.
All charges legally assessed shall be a lien upon unentered lands
and upon lands covered by unpatented entries included in said irrigation
district.
(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, Sec. 2, 39 Stat. 507; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114,
Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 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.
``Officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior'' substituted
for ``register'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of
1946, which abolished all registers of district land offices and
transferred functions of register of district land offices to Secretary
of the Interior. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out
as a note under section 1 of this title.
Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and
transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors
general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States
Supervisor of Surveys.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 626 of this title.
