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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 22 — Rights-of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands

§ 964. Limit of time for completion of Colorado and Wyoming pipelines; forfeiture

Statutory text

If any section of said pipe line shall not be completed within five years after the location of said section, the right granted in sections 962 to 965 of this title shall be forfeited, as to any incomplete section of said pipe line, to the extent that the same is not completed at the date of the forfeiture.

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. 54–212 § 3 · 29 Stat. 127

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 964

    (May 21, 1896, ch. 212, § 3, 29 Stat. 127.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 21, 1896, ch. 212, § 3, 29 Stat. 127.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That if any section of said pipe line shall not be completed Completion. within five years after the location of said section the right herein granted shall be forfeited, as to any incomplete section of said pipe line, to the extent that the same is not completed at the date of the forfeiture.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Repeal; Savings Provision

Section repealed by Pub.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 this title.

Credits

(May 21, 1896, ch. 212, § 3, 29 Stat. 127.)

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