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[CITE: 43USC503]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
       SUBCHAPTER XI--MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 503. ``Unusual or emergency conditions'' defined

    The term ``unusual or emergency conditions'', as used in section 502 
of this title, shall be construed to mean canal bank failures, generator 
failures, damage to transmission lines; or other physical failures or 
damage, or acts of God, or of the public enemy, fires, floods, drought, 
epidemics, strikes, or freight embargoes, or conditions, causing or 
threatening to cause interruption in water or power service.

(June 26, 1948, ch. 676, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 1052.)
