43 USC 431 - Limitation as to Amount of Water; Qualifications of Applicant

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.

(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, §5, 32 Stat. 389.)

Sections:  Previous  424b  424c  424d  424e  425  425a  425b  431  432  433  433a  434  435  436  437  Next

Last modified: October 26, 2015