43 USC § 496 - Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s496"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 496 - Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "496"
section_name: "Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "XI"
subchapter_name: "MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION OF WORKS GENERALLY"
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, § 6, 38 Stat. 688.)"
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# § 496. Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge

If any water-right applicant or entryman shall be one year in arrears in the payment of any charge for operation and maintenance and penalties, or any part thereof, his water-right application, and if he be a homestead entryman his entry also, shall be subject to cancellation, and all payments made by him forfeited to the reclamation fund, but no homestead entry shall be subject to contest because of such arrears.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 6, 38 Stat. 688.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of second sentence of section 6 of act . First and third sentences of such section 6 are classified to sections 479, 493, 494, 495, 497 of this title, respectively.