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[CITE: 43USC481]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
                   SUBCHAPTER IX--CONSTRUCTION CHARGES
 
Sec. 481. Action to recover construction charges and penalties

    If the Secretary of the Interior shall so elect, he may cause suit 
or action to be brought for the recovery of the amount of the 
construction charges in default and penalties; but if suit or action be 
brought, the right to declare a cancellation and forfeiture of the entry 
or water-right application as provided in section 480 of this title 
shall be suspended pending such suit or action.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 3, 38 Stat. 687.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 469, 475, 497, 511 of this 
title.
