Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60
§982 Grant to States to Aid in Construction of Levees and Drains
Title 43 › Chapter 23— GRANTS OF SWAMP AND OVERFLOWED LANDS › § 982
Summary
States except Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevada receive swampy or flooded lands that were unsold on or after September 28, 1850 so they can build levees and drains to reclaim them. The grants to California, Minnesota, and Oregon follow special conditions listed later.
Full Legal Text
Title 43, §982
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To enable the several States (but not including the States of Kansas, Nebraska, and Nevada) to construct the necessary levees and drains, to reclaim the swamp and overflowed lands therein—the whole of the swamp and overflowed lands, made unfit thereby for cultivation, and remaining unsold on or after the 28th day of September, A.D. 1850, are granted and belong to the several States respectively, in which said lands are situated: Provided, however, That said grant of swamp and overflowed lands, as to the States of California, Minnesota, and Oregon, is subject to the limitations, restrictions and conditions hereinafter named and specified in this chapter, as applicable to said three last-named States respectively.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 2479 derived from acts Sept. 28, 1850, ch. 84, §§ 1, 4, 9 Stat. 520; Mar. 12, 1860, ch. 5, § 1, 12 Stat. 3; Feb. 19, 1874, ch. 30, 18 Stat. 16.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Grants Not To Extend to AlaskaLand grant under Alaska Statehood provisions in lieu of grant of land under this section (declared not to extend to Alaska), see section 6(l) of Pub. L. 85–508, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Executive Documents
Admission of Alaska as StateAdmission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished Jan. 3, 1959, on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, Jan. 3, 1959, 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by section 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, July 7, 1958, 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
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Citation
43 U.S.C. § 982
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
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