Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73
§424c Issuance of patents; recitals in patents; reservations
Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 12— - RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - ADMINISTRATION OF EXISTING PROJECTS › § 424c
Summary
When the buyer pays the full purchase price to the United States, the government issues a land patent that says whether the land was classed as temporarily or permanently unproductive under sections 423–423g and 610; the patent can reserve a lien for water charges if the Secretary decides and can reserve coal or other mineral rights like homestead patents do.
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Title 43, §424c
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After the purchaser has paid to the United States all amounts due on the purchase price of said land, a patent shall issue which shall recite that the lands so patented have been classified in whole or in part as temporarily or permanently unproductive, as the case may be, under sections 423 to 423g and 610 of this title. Such patents shall also contain a reservation of a lien for water charges when deemed appropriate by the Secretary and reservations of coal or other mineral rights to the same extent as patents issued under the homestead laws.
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Sections 423 to 423g and 610 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original “the Adjustment Act of
May 25, 1926”, meaning act of
May 25, 1926, ch. 383, 44 Stat. 636, which enacted sections 423 to 423g and 610 of this title. section 610 of this title was omitted from the Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
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43 U.S.C. § 424c
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73