Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§480 Cancellation of Water Right or Entry for Nonpayment of Construction Charge
Title 43 › CHAPTER 12 — RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › SUBCHAPTER IX — CONSTRUCTION CHARGES › § 480
Summary
One-year late construction-charge payments allow canceling a water-right application and a homestead entry; payments go to the reclamation fund, and homestead entries can't be contested.
Full Legal Text
Title 43, §480
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If any water-right applicant or entryman shall be one year in default in the payment of any installment of the construction charges and penalties, or any part thereof, his water-right application, and if he be a homestead entryman his entry also, shall be subject to cancellation, and all payments made by him forfeited to the reclamation fund, but no homestead entry shall be subject to contest because of such default.
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Citation
43 U.S.C. § 480
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102