{"data":{"id":"us/43-u.s.c.-478","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"43 U.S.C. § 478","heading":"Pecuniary penalty for nonpayment of installments of construction charges","body":"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.","path":["Title 43—PUBLIC LANDS","CHAPTER 12—RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc43@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T06:00:36Z","sha256":"b7e830c38530873f45fdf27ebf80c1b6f5ff1c5f87541767a667df4d4ca72277","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/43-u.s.c.-477","next":"us/43-u.s.c.-479"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}