§ 204m. Vested rights

Statutory text

Nothing herein contained shall affect any vested and accrued rights of ownership of lands or any valid existing claim, location, or entry existing under the land laws of the United States on July 3, 1930, whether for homestead, mineral, rights-of-way, or any other purposes whatsoever, or any water rights and/or rights-of-way connected therewith, including reservoirs, conduits, and ditches, as may be recognized by local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, or shall affect the right of any such owner, claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1930
Pub. L. 71–834 § 3 · 46 Stat. 853
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 204m
(July 3, 1930, ch. 834, § 3, 46 Stat. 853.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 3, 1930, ch. 834, § 3, 46 Stat. 853.)
Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That nothing herein contained shall affect any vested and Prior rights not prejudiced. accrued rights of ownership of lands or any valid existing claim, location, or entry existing under the land laws of the United States at the date of passage of this Act, whether for homestead, mineral, rights of way, or any other purposes whatsoever, or any water rights and/or rights of way connected therewith, including reservoirs, conduits, and ditches, as may be recognized by local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, or shall affect the right of any such owner, claimant, locator, or entryman to the full use and enjoyment of his land.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Herein, referred to in text, means act July 3, 1930, which is classified to sections 204k to 204m of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Credits

(July 3, 1930, ch. 834, § 3, 46 Stat. 853.)