43 U.S.C. § 480 — Cancellation of water right or entry for nonpayment of construction charge

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If a water-right applicant, or a homestead entryman, falls one full year behind on paying construction charges and penalties, their water-right application (and homestead entry, if they have one) can be canceled. Any payments already made are forfeited to the reclamation fund. However, a homestead entry cannot be challenged by someone else just because of this kind of default.

If a water-right applicant, or a homestead entryman, falls one year behind on paying any installment of the construction charges and penalties (or any part of it), their water-right application can be canceled. If they are also a homestead entryman, their homestead entry can be canceled too. Any payments they already made are forfeited — they go to the reclamation fund instead of being returned. However, this kind of default cannot be used by another person to challenge, or "contest," the homestead entry.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

If any water-right applicant or entryman shall be one year in default in the payment of any installment of the construction charges and penalties, or any part thereof, his water-right application, and if he be a homestead entryman his entry also, shall be subject to cancellation, and all payments made by him forfeited to the reclamation fund, but no homestead entry shall be subject to contest because of such default.

Source credit: (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 3, 38 Stat. 687.)

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1914Enacted · Act of Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247 · 38 Stat. 687

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