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[CITE: 43USC622]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
    CHAPTER 13--FEDERAL LANDS INCLUDED IN STATE IRRIGATION DISTRICTS
 
Sec. 622. Cost of construction and maintenance of irrigation 
        project as charge on land
        
    The cost of constructing, acquiring, purchasing, or maintaining the 
canals, ditches, reservoirs, reservoir sites, water, water right, 
rights-of-way, or other property incurred in connection with any 
irrigation project under said irrigation district laws shall be 
equitably apportioned among lands held under private ownership, lands 
legally covered by unpatented entries, and unentered public lands 
included in said irrigation district. Officially certified lists of the 
amounts of charges assessed against the smallest legal subdivision of 
said lands shall be furnished to the officer designated by the Secretary 
of the Interior of the land district within which the lands affected are 
located as soon as such charges are assessed; but nothing in this 
chapter shall be construed as creating any obligation against the United 
States to pay any of said charges, assessments, or debts incurred.
    All charges legally assessed shall be a lien upon unentered lands 
and upon lands covered by unpatented entries included in said irrigation 
district.

(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, Sec. 2, 39 Stat. 507; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114, 
Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 1946 Reorg. 
Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out 
under section 1451 of this title.
    ``Officer designated by the Secretary of the Interior'' substituted 
for ``register'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1946, which abolished all registers of district land offices and 
transferred functions of register of district land offices to Secretary 
of the Interior. See section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out 
as a note under section 1 of this title.
    Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and 
transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors 
general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States 
Supervisor of Surveys.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 626 of this title.
