2018 US Code
Title 43 - Public Lands
Chapter 6 - Withdrawal From Settlement, Location, Sale, or Entry
Sec. 151 - Opening of lands restored to entry after withdrawals

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Citation 43 U.S.C. § 151 (2018)
Section Name §151. Opening of lands restored to entry after withdrawals
Section Text

When public lands are excluded from national forests or released from withdrawals the President may, whenever in his judgment it is proper or necessary, provide for the opening of the lands by settlement in advance of entry, by drawing, or by such other method as he may deem advisable in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration, and in doing so may provide that lands so opened shall be subject only to homestead entry by actual settlers only or to entry under the desert-land laws for a period not exceeding ninety days, the unentered lands to be thereafter subject to disposition under the public-land laws applicable thereto.

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(Sept. 30, 1913, ch. 15, §1, 38 Stat. 113.)

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 6 - WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY
Sec. 151 - Opening of lands restored to entry after withdrawals
Contains section 151
Date 2018
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 14, 2019
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 38 Stat. 113
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