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[CITE: 43USC477]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
                   SUBCHAPTER IX--CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
 
Sec. 477. Association or irrigation district as fiscal agent of 
        Government
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to 
designate and appoint, under such rules and regulations as he may 
prescribe, the legally organized water-users' association or irrigation 
district, under any reclamation project, as the fiscal agent of the 
United States to collect the annual payments on the construction charge 
of the project and the annual charges for operation and maintenance and 
all penalties: Provided, That no water-right applicant or entryman shall 
be entitled to credit for any payment thus made until the same shall 
have been paid over to an officer designated by the Secretary of the 
Interior to receive the same.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 7, 38 Stat. 688.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 475 of this title.
