43 U.S.C. § 431 Limitation As to Amount of Water; Qualifications of Applicant

• Library: United States Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.L. 118-34 (published on www.congress.gov on 12/26/2023), except for [P. L. 118-31]
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 43 U.S.C. § 431

No right to the use of water for land in private ownership shall be sold for a tract exceeding one hundred and sixty acres to any one landowner, and no such sale shall be made to any landowner unless he be an actual bona fide resident on such land, or occupant thereof residing in the neighborhood of said land, and no such right shall permanently attach until all payments therefor are made.

Cite as 43 U.S.C. § 431

Source: June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, §5, 32 Stat. 389.

Notes from the Office of Law Revision Counsel