§ 541. — When patent or final certificate issued.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC541]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 12--RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
SUBCHAPTER XIV--PATENTS AND FINAL WATER-RIGHT CERTIFICATES
Sec. 541. When patent or final certificate issued
Any homestead entryman under the Act of June 17, 1902, known as the
reclamation Act, including entrymen on ceded Indian lands, may, at any
time after having complied with the provisions of law applicable to such
lands as to residence reclamation, and cultivation, submit proof of such
residence, reclamation, and cultivation, which proof, if found regular
and satisfactory, shall entitle the entryman to a patent, and all
purchasers of water-right certificates on reclamation projects shall be
entitled to a final water-right certificate upon proof of the
cultivation and reclamation of the land to which the certificate
applies, to the extent required by the reclamation Act for homestead
entrymen: Provided, That no such patent or final water-right certificate
shall issue until after the payment of all sums due the United States on
account of such land or water right at the time of the submission of
proof entitling the homestead or desert-land entryman to such patent or
the purchaser to such final water-right certificate.
(Aug. 9, 1912, ch. 278, Sec. 1, 37 Stat. 265; Feb. 15, 1917, ch. 71, 39
Stat. 920.)
References in Text
Act of June 17, 1902, known as the reclamation Act, referred to in
text, is act June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, 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.
