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[CITE: 43USC475]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
                   SUBCHAPTER IX--CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
 
Sec. 475. Annual installments on entries and contracts prior to 
        August 13, 1914
        
    Any person whose land or entry, prior to August 13, 1914, became 
subject to the terms and conditions of the reclamation law shall pay the 
construction charge, or the portion of the construction charge remaining 
unpaid, in twenty annual installments, the first of which shall become 
due and payable on December 1 of the year in which the public notice 
affecting his land is issued, and subsequent installments on December 1 
of each year thereafter. The first four of such installments shall each 
be 2 per centum, the next two installments shall each be 4 per centum, 
and the next fourteen each 6 per centum of the total construction 
charge, or the portion of the construction charge unpaid at the 
beginning of such installments.
    Any person whose land or entry prior to August 13, 1914, became 
subject to the reclamation law, who desires to secure the benefits of 
the extension of the period of payments provided by sections 373, 414, 
418, 435 to 437, 440, 443, 464, 465, 469, 471, 472, 475, 477 to 481, 
492, 493, 494 to 497 and 499 of this title, shall, within six months 
after the issuance of the first public notice hereunder affecting his 
land or entry, notify the Secretary of the Interior, in the manner to be 
prescribed by said Secretary, of his acceptance of all the terms and 
conditions of such sections, and thereafter his lands or entry shall be 
subject to all of the provisions of such sections: Provided, That upon 
sufficient showing the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, 
permit notice of acceptance of all the terms and conditions of such 
sections to be filed at any time after the time limit hereinbefore fixed 
for filing such acceptance shall have expired, conditioned, however, 
that where the applicant for such acceptance is in arrears on 
construction charges, he shall at the time of acceptance pay such 
installments of the construction charge as he would have been required 
to pay had he accepted the benefits of such sections within the time 
limit hereinabove fixed, plus the penalties that would have accrued had 
he so accepted, and such applicant shall thereafter be upon the same 
status that he would have been had he accepted the provisions of such 
sections within the time limit hereinabove fixed, and thereafter the 
lands or entry of any such persons so filing such notice of acceptance 
shall be subject to all the provisions of such sections.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Secs. 2, 14, 38 Stat. 687, 690; July 26, 1916, 
ch. 257, 39 Stat. 390.)

                       References in Text

    The reclamation law, referred to in text, probably means act June 
17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, popularly known as the 
Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 475, 511 of this title.
