Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73
§478 Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges
Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IX— - CONSTRUCTION CHARGES › § 478
Summary
Add 1% to any unpaid installment that water-right applicants or entrymen failed to pay before December 5, 1924, and add 1% each month until it is paid. Installments due after December 5, 1924 carry a 0.5% monthly penalty.
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Title 43, §478
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If any water-right applicant or entryman shall have, prior to December 5, 1924, failed to pay any installment of his construction charges when due, there shall be added to the amount unpaid a penalty of 1 per centum thereof, and there shall be added a like penalty of 1 per centum of the amount unpaid on the first day of each month thereafter so long as such default shall have continued: Provided, That the penalty of 1 per centum per month against delinquent accounts, is reduced to one-half of 1 per centum per month, as to all installments which may become due after December 5, 1924.
Legislative History
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section consolidates first sentence of act Aug. 13, 1914, § 3, with act Dec. 5, 1924, § 4, subsec. H.
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43 U.S.C. § 478
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73