Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power
§ 801. Transfer of license; obligations of transferee
Statutory text
No voluntary transfer of any license, or of the rights thereunder granted, shall be made without the written approval of the commission; and any successor or assign of the rights of such licensee, whether by voluntary transfer, judicial sale, foreclosure sale, or otherwise, shall be subject to all the conditions of the license under which such rights are held by such licensee and also subject to all the provisions and conditions of this chapter to the same extent as though such successor or assign were the original licensee under this chapter: Provided, That a mortgage or trust deed or judicial sales made thereunder or under tax sales shall not be deemed voluntary transfers within the meaning of this section.
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.
Pub. L. 66–285 · 41 Stat. 1063
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 801
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 8, 41 Stat. 1068
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 8, 41 Stat. 1068
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Credits
1920–1935 · 2 acts
- 1920June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 8, 41 Stat. 1068
- 1935renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847.
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(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. I, § 8, 41 Stat. 1068; renumbered pt. I, Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847.)