---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 513"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "513"
heading: "Lands in project subject to provisions of chapter; after contract with irrigation district"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/513"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XII — Contracts with State Irrigation Districts for Payment of Charges"
---

# §513. Lands in project subject to provisions of chapter; after contract with irrigation district


Upon the execution of any contract between the United States and any irrigation district pursuant to sections [511](/usc/43/511.md) and [512](/usc/43/512.md) of this title the public lands included within such irrigation district, when subject to entry, and entered lands within such irrigation district, for which no final certificates shall have been issued and which may be designated by the [Secretary](/usc/43/485a.md?p=b) of the Interior in said contract, shall be subject to all the provisions of [chapter 13](/usc/43/chch13.md) of this title: Provided, That no map or plan as required by [section 623 of this title](/usc/43/623.md) need be filed by the irrigation district for approval by the [Secretary](/usc/43/485a.md?p=b) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(May 15, 1922, ch. 190, § 3, 42 Stat. 542.)