30 USC § 702 - “Qualified applicant” defined

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identifier: "/us/usc/t30/s702"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "30 USC § 702 - “Qualified applicant” defined"
title_number: 30
title_name: "MINERAL LANDS AND MINING"
section_number: "702"
section_name: "“Qualified applicant” defined"
chapter_number: 20
chapter_name: "CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 87–851, § 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.)"
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# § 702. “Qualified applicant” defined

October 23, 1962July 23, 1962

For the purposes of this chapter a qualified applicant is a residential occupant-owner, as of , of valuable improvements in an unpatented mining claim which constitute for him a principal place of residence and which he and his predecessors in interest were in possession of for not less than seven years prior to .

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 87–851, § 2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.)