FEDERAL · 43 U.S.C. · Chapter SUBCHAPTER XI—MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY

Discretionary power to transfer management

43 U.S.C. § 499
Title43Public Lands
ChapterSUBCHAPTER XI—MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY

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43 U.S.C. § 499.

Text

Whenever any legally organized water-users' association or irrigation district shall so request, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to transfer to such water-users' association or irrigation district the care, operation, and maintenance of all or any part of the project works, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

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History

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, §5, 38 Stat. 687.)

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Codification
Section is comprised of part of first sentence of section 5 of act Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of first sentence and second sentence of such section 5 are classified to section 492 of this title.

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