43 U.S.C. § 1063 — Obstruction of settlement on or transit over public lands
submitted 141 years ago by ch. 149 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 118 words · no verdicts yet
No one may use force, threats, intimidation, fencing, enclosures, or other unlawful means to block settlement on or travel across public land. The section preserves the good-faith rights of people who entered, improved, or occupied land under the land laws.
No person may, by force, threats, intimidation, fencing, enclosing, or another unlawful method, prevent or obstruct someone from peacefully entering or settling on public land that may be settled or entered under United States public-land laws. No person may prevent or obstruct free passage or travel over or through public land. This does not affect the right or title of a person who, in good faith claiming title under the United States land laws, entered, improved, or occupied the land.
No person, by force, threats, intimidation, or by any fencing or inclosing, or any other unlawful means, shall prevent or obstruct, or shall combine and confederate with others to prevent or obstruct, any person from peaceably entering upon or establishing a settlement or residence on any tract of public land subject to settlement or entry under the public land laws of the United States, or shall prevent or obstruct free passage or transit over or through the public lands: Provided, This section shall not be held to affect the right or title of persons, who have gone upon, improved, or occupied said lands under the land laws of the United States, claiming title thereto, in good faith.
Source credit: (Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149, § 3, 23 Stat. 322.)
- 1885Enacted · Act of Feb. 25, 1885, ch. 149 · 23 Stat. 322
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