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LegalText 30 U.S.C. § 51 Water users vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers possession us united_states_code code_section 30 MINERAL LANDS AND MINING 2 MINERAL LANDS AND REGULATIONS IN GENERAL 51 30 U.S.C. § 51 current 119-100 2026-06-26 official https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc30@119-100.zip /us/usc/t30/s51 data/legal/raw/us/code/title-30/usc30.xml 868bba74e841239e93b6de78ec3d53438b866bd3f1c0affddfe913c0f3a2dd2f 355f8eb5c6ad5372de4a8e665d9ed90202d53d2aac19ac001d43948af4a4dd2f bc899c0265901d9feaf2c514da8956f0344310ea43506634579535ac0551d38b 2026-07-04 official
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30 U.S.C. § 51 - Water users vested and accrued rights; enumeration of uses; protection of interest; rights-of-way for canals and ditches; liability for injury or damage to settlers possession

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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; and the right-of-way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.11 See Repeal; Savings Provision note below.

(R.S. § 2339.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 2339 derived from act July 26, 1866, ch. 262, § 9, 14 Stat. 253. Section is also set out as the first par. of section 661 of Title 43, Public Lands.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Repeal; Savings ProvisionProvision of this section, “and the right-of-way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.” was repealed by Pub. L. 94579, title VII, § 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, 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. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. L. 94579, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands.

Submerged Lands ActProvisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands.