43 U.S.C. § 424a — Sale of unproductive lands; terms; area purchasable; tracts included
submitted 96 years ago by ch. 292 to r/title-43-PUBLIC-LANDS · 174 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary can sell unproductive irrigation-project land to resident farm owners or entrymen. Prices must be at least the independently appraised value. Buyers can't purchase more than 160 acres, or enough to push their total land past 320 acres.
The Secretary is authorized to sell unproductive lands to resident farm owners or resident entrymen who are on the same irrigation project as the land. The sale price must be at least the value set by an independent appraisal that the Secretary approves. The Secretary decides the other terms, and may sell the land either privately or at public auction. No resident farm owner or resident entryman may buy more than 160 acres under sections 424 through 424e of this title. Combined with land the buyer already owns on that same Federal irrigation project, the total can't go above 320 acres. This selling authority covers not just tracts that are entirely classified as temporarily or permanently unproductive. It also covers any public-land tract within a Federal irrigation project that the Secretary finds too small — because part of it is unproductive land — to support a family and pay the required water charges.
The Secretary is authorized to sell such lands to resident farm owners or resident entrymen, on the project upon which such land is located, at prices not less than that fixed by independent appraisal approved by the Secretary, and upon such terms and at private sale or at public auction as he may prescribe: Provided, That no such resident farm owner or resident entryman shall be permitted to purchase under sections 424 to 424e of this title more than one hundred and sixty acres of such land, or an area which, together with land already owned on such Federal irrigation project, shall exceed three hundred and twenty acres: And provided further, That the authority given hereunder shall apply not only to tracts wholly classified as temporarily or permanently unproductive, but also to all tracts of public lands within Federal irrigation projects which by reason of the inclusion of lands classified as temporarily or permanently unproductive are found by the Secretary to be insufficient to support a family and to pay water charges.
Source credit: (May 16, 1930, ch. 292, § 2, 46 Stat. 367.)
- 1930Enacted · Act of May 16, 1930, ch. 292 · 46 Stat. 367
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 292 on 1930-05-16.
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