§ 475. — Annual installments on entries and contracts prior to August 13, 1914.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC475]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER IX--CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
Sec. 475. Annual installments on entries and contracts prior to
August 13, 1914
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 sections 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.
(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Secs. 2, 14, 38 Stat. 687, 690; July 26, 1916,
ch. 257, 39 Stat. 390.)
References in Text
The reclamation law, referred to in text, probably means act June
17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, popularly known as the
Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note
set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 475, 511 of this title.
