43 USC § 439 - Cultivation requirement as to entrymen

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s439"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 439 - Cultivation requirement as to entrymen"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "439"
section_name: "Cultivation requirement as to entrymen"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "WATER RIGHT APPLICATIONS AND LAND ENTRIES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 5, 32 Stat. 389.)"
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# § 439. Cultivation requirement as to entrymen

The entryman upon lands to be irrigated shall, in addition to compliance with the homestead laws, reclaim at least one-half of the total irrigable area of his entry for agricultural purposes.

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**Source Credit**: (June 17, 1902, ch. 1093, § 5, 32 Stat. 389.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see .