---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 462"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "462"
heading: "Classification of irrigable lands and equitable apportionment of charges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/462"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter IX — Construction Charges"
---

# §462. Classification of irrigable lands and equitable apportionment of charges


The irrigable lands of each new project and new division of a project approved, after December 5, 1924, shall be classified by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) with respect to their power, under a proper agricultural program, to support a family and pay water charges, and the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) is authorized to fix different construction charges against different classes of land under the same project for the purpose of equitably apportioning the total construction cost so that all lands may as far as practicable bear the burden of such cost according to their productive value.


## Source credit

(Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4, subsec. D, 43 Stat. 702.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Definitions

The definitions in section 371 of this title apply to this section.