43 U.S.C. § 478 — Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges

If any water-right applicant or entryman shall have, prior to December 5, 1924 , failed to pay any installment of his construction charges when due, there shall be added to the amount unpaid a penalty of 1 per centum thereof, and there shall be added a like penalty of 1 per centum of the amount unpaid on the first day of each month thereafter so long as such default shall have continued: Provided, That the penalty of 1 per centum per month against delinquent accounts, is reduced to one-half of 1 per centum per month, as to all installments which may become due after December 5, 1924 . (Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 3, 38 Stat. 687 ; Dec. 5, 1924, ch. 4, § 4, subsec. H, 43 Stat. 703 .) Editorial Notes Codification Section consolidates first sentence of act Aug. 13, 1914 , § 3, with act Dec. 5, 1924 , § 4, subsec. H.

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