---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 496"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "496"
heading: "Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/496"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XI — Maintenance and Operation of Works Generally"
---

# §496. Cancellation of entry or water right for nonpayment of operation charge


If any water-right applicant or entryman shall be one year in arrears in the payment of any charge for operation and maintenance 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 arrears.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 6, 38 Stat. 688.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of second sentence of section 6 of act Aug. 13, 1914. First and third sentences of such section 6 are classified to sections 479, 493, 494, 495, 497 of this title, respectively.