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[CITE: 43USC494]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
       SUBCHAPTER XI--MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 494. Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of operation charge

    If any operation or maintenance charge is unpaid on the 1st day of 
the third calendar month after it became due a penalty of 1 per centum 
of the amount unpaid shall be added thereto, and thereafter an 
additional penalty of one-half of 1 per centum of the amount unpaid 
shall be added on the 1st day of each calendar month if such charge and 
penalties shall remain unpaid.

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 688; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, 
Sec. 4, subsec. H, 43 Stat. 703.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of part of first sentence of section 6 of act 
Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of first sentence of such section 6 is 
classified to sections 479, 493 and 495 of this title; second and third 
sentences of such section 6 are classified to sections 496 and 497 of 
this title, respectively.
    Act Dec. 5, 1924, reduced the additional penalty from 1 per centum 
to one-half of 1 per centum.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 371, 417, 475, 493, 500, 511 
of this title.
