---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 546"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "546"
heading: "Jurisdiction of district court for enforcement of this subchapter"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/546"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XIV — Patents and Final Water-Right Certificates"
---

# §546. Jurisdiction of district court for enforcement of this subchapter


Jurisdiction of suits by the United States for the enforcement of the provisions of this subchapter is conferred on the United States district courts of the districts in which the lands are situated.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, § 5, 37 Stat. 267.)