Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73
§499b Transfer to municipal corporations or other organizations of care, operation, and maintenance of works supplying water for municipal, domestic, or industrial use
Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XI— - MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY › § 499b
Summary
When a city or group that gets water from the U.S. asks, the Secretary of the Interior can transfer the operation and maintenance of the waterworks to that group or someone they name, on whatever terms the Secretary sets.
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Title 43, §499b
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Whenever a municipal corporation or other organization to which water for municipal, domestic, or industrial use is furnished or distributed under a contract entered into with the United States pursuant to the Federal reclamation laws so requests, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to transfer to it or its nominee the care, operation, and maintenance of the works by which such water supply is made available or such part of those works as, in his judgment, is appropriate in the circumstances, subject to such terms and conditions as he may prescribe.
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The Federal reclamation laws, referred to in text, probably means the Act of
June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the Reclamation Act, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto. The Act of
June 17, 1902, is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
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43 U.S.C. § 499b
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73