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[CITE: 43USC431]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
        SUBCHAPTER VI--WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
 
Sec. 431. Limitation as to amount of water; qualifications of 
        applicant
        
    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.

(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, Sec. 5, 32 Stat. 389.)


Imperial Irrigation District of California; Nonapplicability of Federal 
                            Reclamation Laws

    Nonapplicability of Federal reclamation laws to lands within 
Imperial Irrigation District of California, see section 4 of Pub. L. 96-
570, set out as a note under section 423e of this title.


              Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

    Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by 
the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.


                            Cross References

    Grand Teton National Park, withdrawn lands within exterior boundary, 
use for reclamation purposes, see section 406d-5 of Title 16, 
Conservation.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 50 App. section 568.
