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[CITE: 43USC567]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
  CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 
     SUBCHAPTER XV--TOWN SITES, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND SCHOOL SITES
 
Sec. 567. Water rights for towns and cities; charges

    The Secretary of the Interior shall, in accordance with the 
provisions of the reclamation law, provide for water rights in amount he 
may deem necessary for the towns established as provided, in sections 
561, 562 and 566 of this title, and may enter into contract with the 
proper authorities of such towns, and other towns or cities on or in the 
immediate vicinity of irrigation projects, which shall have a water 
right from the same source as that of said project for the delivery of 
such water supply to some convenient point, and for the payment into the 
reclamation fund of charges for the same to be paid by such towns or 
cities, which charges shall not be less nor upon terms more favorable 
than those fixed by the Secretary of the Interior for the irrigation 
project from which the water is taken.

(Apr. 16, 1906, ch. 1631, Sec. 4, 34 Stat. 116.)

                       References in Text

    The reclamation law, referred to in text, probably means act June 
17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, popularly known as the 
Reclamation Act, which is classified generally to this chapter. For 
complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 371 of this title and Tables.


                            Cross References

    Municipal water supply, see section 485h of this title.
