43 U.S.C. § 567

Water rights for towns and cities; charges

Read at: OLRCuscode.house.gov CornellLII GovInfogovinfo.gov JustiaTitle 43 CasesGoogle Scholar

The Secretary of the Interior shall, in accordance with the provisions of the reclamation Act, provide for water rights in amount he may deem necessary for the towns established as provided, in sections 561, 562 and 566 of this title, and may enter into contract with the proper authorities of such towns, and other towns or cities on or in the immediate vicinity of irrigation projects, which shall have a water right from the same source as that of said project for the delivery of such water supply to some convenient point, and for the payment into the reclamation fund of charges for the same to be paid by such towns or cities, which charges shall not be less nor upon terms more favorable than those fixed by the Secretary of the Interior for the irrigation project from which the water is taken.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case, 1987–1987 · leading case: Long v. Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n, 820 F.2d 284 (9th Cir. 1987).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Long v. Salt River Valley Water Users' Ass'n, 820 F.2d 284 (9th Cir. 1987). “Amendments to the 1902 Act authorize the Secretary to provide water rights to municipalities, 43 U.S.C. § 567 , and permit the Secretary to enter into contracts to distribute surplus reclamation project water for nonirrigation purposes, provided (1) “no other practicable source…”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.