§ 623. — Map of district and plan of irrigation project; approval by Secretary.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC623]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 13--FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDED IN STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
Sec. 623. Map of district and plan of irrigation project;
approval by Secretary
No unentered lands and no entered lands for which no final
certificates have been issued shall be subject to the lien or liens
herein contemplated until there shall have been submitted by said
irrigation district to the Secretary of the Interior, and approved by
him, a map or plat of said district and sufficient detailed engineering
data to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Secretary of the Interior
the sufficiency of the water supply and the feasibility of the project,
and which shall explain the plan or mode of irrigation in those
irrigation districts where the irrigation works have not been
constructed, and which plan shall be sufficient to thoroughly irrigate
and reclaim said land and prepare it to raise ordinary agricultural
crops, and which shall also show the source of water to be used for
irrigation of land included in said district: Provided, That in those
irrigation districts organized prior to August 11, 1916, and whose
irrigation works had then been constructed and were then in operation as
soon as a satisfactory map, plat, and plan shall have been approved by
the Secretary of the Interior, as in this chapter provided, such entered
and unentered lands shall be subject to all district taxes and
assessments theretofore actually levied against the lands in said
district and in the same manner in which lands of a like character held
under private ownership are subject to liens and assessments.
(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, Sec. 3, 39 Stat. 507.)
Codification
Section is comprised of section 3 (less the first proviso) of act
Aug. 11, 1916. The remainder of section 3 is classified to section 625
of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 513, 621 of this title.
