43 U.S.C. § 431 — Limitation as to amount of water; qualifications of applicant
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No landowner may buy the right to use water for more than 160 acres of private land. The buyer must actually live on that land or nearby as a resident or occupant. The water right does not become permanent until all payments for it are made.
This section limits water rights for private land.
No one may buy the right to use water for a piece of privately owned land larger than 160 acres. A sale can only be made to a landowner who actually lives on that land, or to an occupant who lives in the neighborhood of that land. The water right does not become permanent until the buyer has made every payment required for it.
No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.
Source credit: (June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 5, 32 Stat. 389.)
- 1902Enacted · Act of June 17, 1902, ch. 1093 · 32 Stat. 389
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 1093 on 1902-06-17.
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