43 USC § 964 - Limit of time for completion of Colorado and Wyoming pipelines; forfeiture

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s964"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 964 - Limit of time for completion of Colorado and Wyoming pipelines; forfeiture"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "964"
section_name: "Limit of time for completion of Colorado and Wyoming pipelines; forfeiture"
chapter_number: 22
chapter_name: "RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(May 21, 1896, ch. 212, § 3, 29 Stat. 127.)"
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# § 964. Limit of time for completion of Colorado and Wyoming pipelines; forfeiture

If any section of said pipe line shall not be completed within five years after the location of said section, the right granted in sections 962 to 965 of this title shall be forfeited, as to any incomplete section of said pipe line, to the extent that the same is not completed at the date of the forfeiture.

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**Source Credit**: (May 21, 1896, ch. 212, § 3, 29 Stat. 127.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeal; Savings Provision

Section repealed by , , , effective on and after , insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on , see , set out as a note under .