§ 451a. — Persons eligible for benefits.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC451a]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER VII--EXCHANGE AND AMENDMENT OF FARM UNITS
Sec. 451a. Persons eligible for benefits
The benefits of section 451 of this title shall, and those of
sections 451b to 451k of this title may, be extended by the Secretary to
(a) any lawful assignee of an unpatented farm unit on a Federal
irrigation project who took the assignment in good faith not knowing and
not having reason to believe the farm unit to be insufficient to support
a family; and (b) any resident owner of private lands on any such
project whose lands shall be found to be insufficient to support a
family and (i) who, apart from his ownership of the lands to be conveyed
pursuant to clause (iii) hereof and apart from his having previously
exhausted his homestead right, if such be the case, is eligible to enter
unappropriated public lands under section 161 \1\ of this title, (ii)
who lawfully acquired his lands as an entire farm unit under the Federal
reclamation laws from the United States or, in the case of a widow,
widower, heir, or devisee, from a spouse or ancestor, as the case may
be, who so acquired them, and (iii) who conveys, free from all
encumbrances, to the United States all of his lands served by the
project or such portion thereof as the Secretary may designate.
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\1\ See References in Text note below.
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(Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, Sec. 2, 67 Stat. 566.)
References in Text
Section 161 of this title, referred to in text, was repealed by Pub.
L. 94-579, title VII, Sec. 702, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2787.
The Federal reclamation laws, referred to in text, include act June
17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, popularly known as the Reclamation
Act, and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, classified
generally to this chapter. For classification of act June 17, 1902, to
the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 371 of this title
and Tables.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 451b, 451e, 451k of this
title.
