---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 479"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "479"
heading: "Shutting off water for nonpayment of construction charge"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/479"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter IX — Construction Charges"
---

# §479. Shutting off water for nonpayment of construction charge


No water shall be delivered to the lands of any water-right applicant or entryman who shall be in arrears for more than one calendar year for the payment of any annual construction charge and penalties.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 6, 38 Stat. 688.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of part of first sentence of section 6 of act Aug. 13, 1914. Remainder of first sentence of such section 6 is classified to sections 493, 494, and 495 of this title; second and third sentences of such section 6 are classified to sections 496 and 497 of this title, respectively.