§ 478. — Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC478]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER IX--CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
Sec. 478. Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of
construction charges
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.
(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 3, 38 Stat. 687; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4,
Sec. 4, subsec. H, 43 Stat. 703.)
Codification
Section consolidates first sentence of act Aug. 13, 1914, Sec. 3,
with act Dec. 5, 1924, Sec. 4, subsec. H.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 371, 417, 469, 493, 500, 511
of this title.
