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[CITE: 16USC1335]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
 CHAPTER 30--WILD HORSES AND BURROS: PROTECTION, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL
 
Sec. 1335. Recovery rights

    A person claiming ownership of a horse or burro on the public lands 
shall be entitled to recover it only if recovery is permissible under 
the branding and estray laws of the State in which the animal is found.

(Pub. L. 92-195, Sec. 5, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 650.)
