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

Summary

No unrecorded lands and no lands without final certificates can have district liens (legal claims for unpaid district debts) placed on them until the irrigation district gives the Secretary of the Interior a map and detailed engineering plans that the Secretary approves. The plans must prove there is enough water, show how irrigation will work where works are not built, show the water source, and show the land can be made ready to grow ordinary farm crops. For districts formed before August 11, 1916 whose irrigation systems were already built and running on that date, once the Secretary approves a satisfactory map and plan, both recorded and unrecorded lands become subject to all district taxes and assessments already actually levied and are treated like similar privately owned lands for liens and assessments.

Title 43, §623

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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.

Editorial Notes

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.

§623 Map of District and Plan of Irrigation Project; Approval by Secretary

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Title 43, §623

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