Title 30, Mineral Lands and MiningRelease 119-102
§702 “qualified Applicant” Defined
Title 30 › CHAPTER 20 — CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS › § 702
Summary
Defines who counts as a qualified applicant. It means a person who, on Oct 23, 1962, owned and lived in valuable improvements on an unpatented mining claim as their main home, and who (or whose prior owners) had possessed that place 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
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102