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Title 30 — Mineral Lands and Mining

Chapter 20 — Conveyances to Occupants of Unpatented Mining Claims

§ 702. “Qualified applicant” defined

Statutory text

For the purposes of this chapter a qualified applicant is a residential occupant-owner, as of , of valuable improvements in an unpatented mining claim which constitute for him a principal place of residence and which he and his predecessors in interest were in possession of for not less than seven years prior to .

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. Pub. L. 87–851 § 2 · 76 Stat. 1127

    Enacted · 30 U.S.C. § 702

    (Pub. L. 87–851, § 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 87–851, § 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. For the purposes of this Act a qualified applicant is a residential “Qualified applicant.” occupant-owner, as of the date of enactment of this Act, of valuable improvements in an unpatented mining claim which constitute for him a principal place of residence and which he and his predecessors in interest were in possession of for not less than seven years prior to July 23, 1952.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 87–851, § 2, , 76 Stat. 1127.)

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