43 USC § 478 - Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s478"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 478 - Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "478"
section_name: "Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "IX"
subchapter_name: "CONSTRUCTION CHARGES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 3, 38 Stat. 687; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4, subsec. H, 43 Stat. 703.)"
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# § 478. Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges

December 5, 1924*Provided*December 5, 1924

If any water-right applicant or entryman shall have, prior to , failed to pay any installment of his construction charges when due, there shall be added to the amount unpaid a penalty of 1 per centum thereof, and there shall be added a like penalty of 1 per centum of the amount unpaid on the first day of each month thereafter so long as such default shall have continued: , That the penalty of 1 per centum per month against delinquent accounts, is reduced to one-half of 1 per centum per month, as to all installments which may become due after .

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 3, 38 Stat. 687; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4, subsec. H, 43 Stat. 703.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section consolidates first sentence of act , § 3, with act , § 4, subsec. H.