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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 621. Subjection of lands in State irrigation district to State laws generally
When in any State of the United States under the irrigation
district laws of said State there has, prior to August 11, 1916,
been organized and created or shall thereafter be organized and
created any irrigation district for the purpose of irrigating the
lands situated within said irrigation district, and in which
irrigation district so created or to be created there shall be
included any of the public lands of the United States, such public
lands so situated in said irrigation district, when subject to
entry, and entered lands within said irrigation district, for which
no final certificates have been issued, which may be designated by
the Secretary of the Interior in the approval by him of the map and
plat of an irrigation district as provided in section 623 of this
title, are made and declared to be subject to all the provisions of
the laws of the State in which such lands shall be situated
relating to the organization, government, and regulation of
irrigation districts for the reclamation and irrigation of arid
lands for agricultural purposes, to the same extent and in the same
manner in which the lands of a like character held under private
ownership are or may be subject to said laws: Provided, That the
United States and all persons legally holding unpatented lands
under entry made under the public land laws of the United States
are accorded all the rights, privileges, benefits, and exemptions
given by said State laws to persons holding lands of a like
character under private ownership except as in this chapter
otherwise provided: Provided further, That this chapter shall not
apply to any irrigation district comprising a majority acreage of
unentered land.
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