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[CITE: 43USC512]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
SUBCHAPTER XII--CONTRACTS WITH STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS FOR PAYMENT OF 
                                 CHARGES
 
Sec. 512. Release of Government liens after contract with 
        irrigation districts
        
    Patents and water-right certificates which shall be issued after May 
15, 1922, under the terms of subchapter XIV of this chapter, for lands 
lying within any irrigation district with which the United States shall 
have contracted, by which the irrigation district agrees to make the 
payment of all charges for the building of irrigation works and for 
operation and maintenance, shall not reserve to the United States a lien 
for the payment of such charges; and where such a lien shall have been 
reserved in any patent or water-right certificate issued under said 
subchapter, the Secretary of the Interior is empowered to release such 
lien in such manner and form as may be deemed effective; and the 
Secretary of the Interior is further empowered to release liens in favor 
of the United States contained in water-right applications and to assent 
to the release of liens to secure reimbursement of moneys due to the 
United States pursuant to water-right applications running in favor of 
the water users' association and contained in stock subscription 
contracts to such associations, when the lands covered by such liens 
shall be subject to assessment and levy for the collection of all moneys 
due and to become due to the United States by irrigation districts 
formed pursuant to State law and with which the United States shall have 
entered into contract therefor: Provided, That no such lien so reserved 
to the United States in any patent or water-right certificate shall be 
released until the owner of the land covered by the lien shall consent 
in writing to the assessment, levy, and collection by such irrigation 
district of taxes against said land for the payment to the United States 
of the contract obligation: Provided further, That before any lien is 
released under this section the Secretary of the Interior shall file a 
written report finding that the contracting irrigation district is 
legally organized under the laws of the State in which its lands are 
located, with full power to enter into the contract and to collect by 
assessment and levy against the lands of the district the amount of the 
contract obligation.

(May 15, 1922, ch. 190, Sec. 2, 42 Stat. 542.)

                       References in Text

    Subchapter XIV (Sec. 541 et seq.) of this chapter, referred to in 
text, was in the original a reference to act Aug. 9, 1912, 37 Stat. 265.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 511, 513 of this title.
