Title 30 — Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-73
§702 “Qualified applicant” defined
Title 30 › Chapter CHAPTER 20— - CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS › § 702
Summary
Defines a qualified applicant as a person who, on October 23, 1962, lived in and owned valuable improvements on an unpatented mining claim. Those improvements had to be their main home, and they and the people who owned or held the property before them must have lived on it for at least seven years before July 23, 1962.
Full Legal Text
Title 30, §702
Mineral Lands and Mining — Source: USLM XML via OLRC
For the purposes of this chapter a qualified applicant is a residential occupant-owner, as of October 23, 1962, of valuable improvements in an unpatented mining claim which constitute for him a principal place of residence and which he and his predecessors in interest were in possession of for not less than seven years prior to July 23, 1962.
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30 U.S.C. § 702
Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73