Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§1981c Oil and Gas Royalty Payments on Loans

Title 7 › CHAPTER 50 — AGRICULTURAL CREDIT › SUBCHAPTER IV — ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS › § 1981c

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must allow a borrower with a loan under this chapter to use money from leasing or selling minerals from the property that secures the loan to make a future payment, if those mineral rights were not used as collateral. This does not apply to loans that were in foreclosure or liquidation on December 23, 1985.

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Title 7, §1981c

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(a)The Secretary shall permit a borrower of a loan made or insured under this chapter to make a prospective payment on such loan with proceeds from—
(1)the leasing of oil, gas, or other mineral rights to real property used to secure such loan; or
(2)the sale of oil, gas, or other minerals removed from real property used to secure such loan, if the value of the rights to such oil, gas, or other minerals has not been used to secure such loan.
(b)Subsection (a) shall not apply to a borrower of a loan made or insured under this chapter with respect to which a liquidation or foreclosure proceeding is pending on December 23, 1985.

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This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this title”, meaning title III of Pub. L. 87–128, Aug. 8, 1961, 75 Stat. 307, known as the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title III to the Code, see

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note set out under section 1921 of this title and Tables.

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7 U.S.C. § 1981c

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102