---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 543"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "543"
heading: "Certificate of final payment and release of lien"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/543"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Patents and Final Water-Right Certificates"
---

# §543. Certificate of final payment and release of lien


Upon full and final payment being made of all amounts due on account of the building and betterment charges to the United States or its successors in control of the [project](/usc/43/485a.md?p=c), the United States or its successors, as the case may be, shall issue upon request a certificate certifying that payment of the building and betterment charges in full has been made and that the lien upon the land has been so far satisfied and is no longer of any force or effect except the lien for annual charges for operation and maintenance.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 3, 37 Stat. 266.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section comprises part of section 3 of act Aug. 9, 1912. Remainder of section 3 is set out as section 544 of this title.