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[CITE: 43USC478]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
                   SUBCHAPTER IX--CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
 
Sec. 478. Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of 
        construction charges
        
    If any water-right applicant or entryman shall have, prior to 
December 5, 1924, failed to pay any installment of his construction 
charges when due, there shall be added to the amount unpaid a penalty of 
1 per centum thereof, and there shall be added a like penalty of 1 per 
centum of the amount unpaid on the first day of each month thereafter so 
long as such default shall have continued: Provided, That the penalty of 
1 per centum per month against delinquent accounts, is reduced to one-
half of 1 per centum per month, as to all installments which may become 
due after December 5, 1924.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 3, 38 Stat. 687; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, 
Sec. 4, subsec. H, 43 Stat. 703.)

                          Codification

    Section consolidates first sentence of act Aug. 13, 1914, Sec. 3, 
with act Dec. 5, 1924, Sec. 4, subsec. H.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 371, 417, 469, 493, 500, 511 
of this title.
