United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 43. PUBLIC LANDS |
Chapter 12. RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
SubChapter IX. CONSTRUCTION CHARGES |
§ 478. Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges
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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 afterDecember 5, 1924 .
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Section consolidates first sentence of act