43 U.S.C. § 512 : US Code - Section 512: Release of Government liens after contract with irrigation districts

Search 43 U.S.C. § 512 : US Code - Section 512: Release of Government liens after contract with irrigation districts

Patents and water-right certificates which shall be issued after
May 15, 1922, under the terms of subchapter XIV of this chapter,
for lands lying within any irrigation district with which the
United States shall have contracted, by which the irrigation
district agrees to make the payment of all charges for the building
of irrigation works and for operation and maintenance, shall not
reserve to the United States a lien for the payment of such
charges; and where such a lien shall have been reserved in any
patent or water-right certificate issued under said subchapter, the
Secretary of the Interior is empowered to release such lien in such
manner and form as may be deemed effective; and the Secretary of
the Interior is further empowered to release liens in favor of the
United States contained in water-right applications and to assent
to the release of liens to secure reimbursement of moneys due to
the United States pursuant to water-right applications running in
favor of the water users' association and contained in stock
subscription contracts to such associations, when the lands covered
by such liens shall be subject to assessment and levy for the
collection of all moneys due and to become due to the United States
by irrigation districts formed pursuant to State law and with which
the United States shall have entered into contract therefor:
Provided, That no such lien so reserved to the United States in any
patent or water-right certificate shall be released until the owner
of the land covered by the lien shall consent in writing to the
assessment, levy, and collection by such irrigation district of
taxes against said land for the payment to the United States of the
contract obligation: Provided further, That before any lien is
released under this section the Secretary of the Interior shall
file a written report finding that the contracting irrigation
district is legally organized under the laws of the State in which
its lands are located, with full power to enter into the contract
and to collect by assessment and levy against the lands of the
district the amount of the contract obligation.