§ 441. — Assignment of entries generally.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC441]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER VI--WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES
Sec. 441. Assignment of entries generally
From and after the filing with the Secretary of the Interior or such
officer as he may designate of satisfactory proof of residence,
improvement, and cultivation for the five years required by law, persons
who have, or shall make, homestead entries within reclamation projects
under the provisions of the Act of June 17, 1902, may assign such
entries, or any part thereof, to other persons, and such assignees, upon
submitting proof of the reclamation of the lands and upon payment of the
charges apportioned against the same as provided in the said Act of June
17, 1902, may receive from the United States a patent for the lands:
Provided, That all assignments made under the provisions of this section
shall be subject to the limitations, charges, terms, and conditions of
the reclamation Act.
(June 23, 1910, ch. 357, 36 Stat. 592; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403,
eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
References in Text
Act of June 17, 1902, referred to in text, is act June 17, 1902, ch.
1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, popularly known as the Reclamation Act,
which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out
under section 371 of this title and Tables.
Transfer of Functions
``Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate''
substituted in text for ``Commissioner of the General Land Office'' on
authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out as a note
under section 1 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 442, 455b, 593, 626 of this
title.
