43 U.S.C. § 451a — Persons eligible for benefits

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This law says who can trade their farm land under section 451. It covers people who honestly bought a small farm unit without knowing it was too small, and private landowners whose land is too small — if they meet certain conditions and give their land to the government.

The benefits of section 451 must, and the benefits of sections 451b through 451k may, be extended by the Secretary to two groups: (a) Any lawful assignee of an unpatented farm unit on a federal irrigation project, who took on the assignment honestly and had no reason to know the farm unit was too small to support a family; and (b) Any resident owner of private land on such a project, whose land is found to be too small to support a family, if that owner (i) — apart from owning the land they're about to give up, and apart from having already used up their homestead right, if that applies — is eligible to claim unclaimed public land under section 161; (ii) lawfully got the land as a complete farm unit under the federal reclamation laws, either directly from the United States, or — for a widow, widower, heir, or beneficiary — from the spouse or ancestor who originally got it that way; and (iii) gives the United States, free of any debts or claims against it, all of the land the project serves, or whatever part of it the Secretary specifies.

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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.

Source credit: (Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428, § 2, 67 Stat. 566.)

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1953Enacted · Act of Aug. 13, 1953, ch. 428 · 67 Stat. 566

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