§ 451. — Conditions necessary for exchange; terms; credits; rights nonassignable.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC451]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER VII--EXCHANGE AND AMENDMENT OF FARM UNITS
Sec. 451. Conditions necessary for exchange; terms; credits;
rights nonassignable
Any entryman on an unpatented farm unit on a Federal irrigation
project which shall be found by the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant
to a land classification, to be insufficient to support a family shall
be entitled, upon timely application to the Secretary to exchange his
farm unit for another farm unit of unentered public land within the same
or any other such project, or, upon terms and conditions satisfactory to
the Secretary, for any other available farm unit on the same or any
other such project. He shall be given credit under the homestead laws
for residence, improvement, and cultivation made or performed upon the
original entry, and if satisfactory final proof of residence,
improvement, and cultivation has been made on the original entry it
shall not be necessary to submit such proof upon the lieu entry. Rights
under this subchapter shall not be assignable.
(Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, Sec. 1, 67 Stat. 566.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 451a, 451k of this title.
