---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 480"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "480"
heading: "Cancellation of water right or entry for nonpayment of construction charge"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/480"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter IX — Construction Charges"
---

# §480. Cancellation of water right or entry for nonpayment of construction charge


If any water-right applicant or entryman shall be one year in default in the payment of any installment of the construction charges and penalties, or any part thereof, his water-right application, and if he be a homestead entryman his entry also, shall be subject to cancellation, and all payments made by him forfeited to the reclamation [fund](/usc/43/1602.md?p=k), but no homestead entry shall be subject to contest because of such default.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 3, 38 Stat. 687.)