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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 2 — Mineral Lands and Regulations in General

§ 52. Patents or homesteads subject to vested and accrued water rights

Statutory text

All patents granted, or homesteads allowed, shall be subject to any vested and accrued water rights, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights,1 as may have been acquired under or recognized by section 51 of this title.

Footnotes

  1. 1 See Repeal; Savings Provision note below.

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.

  1. R.S. § 2340

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 52

    R.S. § 2340

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 2340

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. § 2340 derived from act July 9, 1870, ch. 235, § 17, 16 Stat. 218.

Section is also set out as the second par. of section 661 of Title 43, Public Lands.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Repeal; Savings Provision

Provision of this section, “, or rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights,” was repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a), , 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after , insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on , see section 701 of Pub. L. 94–579, set out as a note under section 1701 of Title 43, Public Lands.

Submerged Lands Act

Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of Title 43, Public Lands.

Credits

1891 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 2340
  2. 1891Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 4, 26 Stat. 1097.
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(R.S. § 2340; Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 4, 26 Stat. 1097.)

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