United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 43. PUBLIC LANDS |
Chapter 12. RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT |
SubChapter XI. MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY |
§ 499a. Transfer of title to movable property; use of appropriations
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Whenever an irrigation district, municipality, or water users’ organization assumes operation and maintenance of works constructed to furnish or distribute a water supply pursuant to a contract entered into with the United States in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of
June 17, 1902 , 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto), the Secretary of the Interior may transfer to said district, municipality, or organization title to movable property which has been purchased with funds advanced by the district, municipality, or organization or which, in the case of property purchased with appropriated funds, is necessary to the operation and maintenance of such works and the value of which is to be repaid under a contract with the district, municipality, or organization. In order to encourage the assumption by irrigation districts, municipalities, and water users’ organizations of the operation and maintenance of works constructed to furnish or distribute a water supply, the Secretary is authorized to use appropriated funds available for the project involved to acquire movable property for transfer under the terms and conditions hereinbefore provided, at the time operation and maintenance is assumed.
References In Text
Act of
Amendments
1965—Pub. L. 89–48, which directed that section 1 of the Act of July 29, 1954, be amended generally, was executed by amending generally this section which comprised all of the Act of
1956—Act
Short Title
This section is popularly known as the “Title to Movable Property Act”.