[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 25, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 25CFR160.2]

[Page 409-410]
 
                            TITLE 25--INDIANS
 
     CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 160--INCLUSION OF LIENS IN ALL PATENTS AND INSTRUMENTS EXECUTED--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 160.2  Instructions.

    All superintendents and other officers are directed to familiarize 
themselves with this provision of law, and in

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all cases involving the issuance of patents or deeds direct to the 
Indian or purchaser of Indian allotments embracing irrigable lands, they 
will recite in the papers forwarded to the Department for action the 
fact that the lands involved are within an irrigation project (giving 
the name) and accordingly are subject to the provisions of this law. 
This requirement will be in addition to the existing regulations 
requiring the superintendents in case of sales of irrigable lands to 
obtain from the project engineer a written statement relative to the 
irrigability of the lands to be sold, and whether or not there are any 
unpaid irrigation charges, together with the estimated per acre 
construction cost assessable against the land involved in the sale. Each 
sale will also be accompanied by contract executed in accordance with 
regulations obligating the purchaser to pay the accrued charges, namely, 
construction, operation, and maintenance, prior to the approval of the 
sale and to assume and pay the unassessed irrigation charges in 
accordance with regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the 
Interior.

    Cross References: For additional regulations pertaining to the 
payment of fees and charges in connection with the sale of irrigable 
lands, see part 159 and Secs. 134.4 and 152.21 of this chapter.