Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/43/661
Timestamp: 2019-12-11 06:36:21
Document Index: 188757069

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 661', '§\u202f661', '§\u202f2339', '§\u202f2339', '§\u202f9', '§\u202f2340', '§\u202f17', '§\u202f706']

43 U.S. Code § 661 - Appropriation of waters on public lands; rights of way for canals and ditches | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
Chapter 15. APPROPRIATION OF WATERS; RESERVOIR SITES
Section 661. Appropriation of waters on public lands; rights of way for canals and ditches
43 U.S. Code § 661. Appropriation of waters on public lands; rights of way for canals and ditches
(R.S. §§ 2339, 2340.)
R.S. § 2339 derived from act July 26, 1866, ch. 262, § 9, 14 Stat. 253.
R.S. § 2340 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, § 17, 16 Stat. 218.
Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, provided that, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System, this section is amended to read as follows:
“Whenever, by priority of possession, rights to the use of water for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, have vested and accrued, and the same are recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and the decisions of courts, the possessors and owners of such vested rights shall be maintained and protected in the same.
“All patents granted, or preemption or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights as may have been acquired under or recognized by this section.”