§475 — Title 43 Public Lands | U.S. Code

Summary

If your land became covered by the reclamation law before August 13, 1914, you must pay the construction charge in twenty annual installments. The first payment is due on December 1 of the year a public notice affecting your land is issued, and each later payment is due on December 1 each year. The first four installments are 2 percent each, the next two are 4 percent each, and the next fourteen are 6 percent each of the total charge (or of the unpaid part at the start of those payments). If you want the extended payment benefits in the other listed sections, you must notify the Secretary of the Interior that you accept all their terms within six months after the first public notice, using the method the Secretary requires. The Secretary may allow a late acceptance for good cause. If you accept late and are behind on construction charges, you must pay the installments and penalties you would have owed had you accepted on time, and then your land will be under those sections.

Title 43, §475

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Any person whose land or entry, prior to August 13, 1914, became subject to the terms and conditions of the reclamation law shall pay the construction charge, or the portion of the construction charge remaining unpaid, in twenty annual installments, the first of which shall become due and payable on December 1 of the year in which the public notice affecting his land is issued, and subsequent installments on December 1 of each year thereafter. The first four of such installments shall each be 2 per centum, the next two installments shall each be 4 per centum, and the next fourteen each 6 per centum of the total construction charge, or the portion of the construction charge unpaid at the beginning of such installments. Any person whose land or entry prior to August 13, 1914, became subject to the reclamation law, who desires to secure the benefits of the extension of the period of payments provided by section 373, 414, 418, 435 to 437, 440, 443, 464, 465, 469, 471, 472, 475, 477 to 481, 492, 493, 494 to 497 and 499 of this title, shall, within six months after the issuance of the first public notice hereunder affecting his land or entry, notify the Secretary of the Interior, in the manner to be prescribed by said Secretary, of his acceptance of all the terms and conditions of such sections, and thereafter his lands or entry shall be subject to all of the provisions of such sections: Provided, That upon sufficient showing the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, permit notice of acceptance of all the terms and conditions of such sections to be filed at any time after the time limit hereinbefore fixed for filing such acceptance shall have expired, conditioned, however, that where the applicant for such acceptance is in arrears on construction charges, he shall at the time of acceptance pay such installments of the construction charge as he would have been required to pay had he accepted the benefits of such sections within the time limit hereinabove fixed, plus the penalties that would have accrued had he so accepted, and such applicant shall thereafter be upon the same status that he would have been had he accepted the provisions of such sections within the time limit hereinabove fixed, and thereafter the lands or entry of any such persons so filing such notice of acceptance shall be subject to all the provisions of such sections.

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The reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 472 of this title.

§475 Annual installments on entries and contracts prior to August 13, 1914

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Title 43, §475

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