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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
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  January 23, 2000 and December 4, 2001]
[CITE: 43USC331]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                     CHAPTER 9--DESERT-LAND ENTRIES
 
Sec. 331. Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled 
        soldiers, etc.
        
    Any entryman under the desert-land laws, or any person entitled to 
preference right of entry under section 326 of this title, who after 
application or entry for surveyed lands or legal initiation of claim for 
unsurveyed lands, and prior to November 11, 1918, enlisted or was 
actually engaged in the United States Army, Navy, or Marine Corps during 
the war with Germany, who has been honorably discharged and because of 
physical incapacities due to service is unable to accomplish reclamation 
of and payment for the land, may make proof without further reclamation 
thereof or payments thereon under such rules and regulations as may be 
prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and receive patent for the 
land by him so entered or claimed, if found entitled thereto: Provided, 
That no such patent shall issue prior to the survey of the land.

(Mar. 1, 1921, ch. 102, Sec. 2, as added Dec. 15, 1921, ch. 3, 42 Stat. 
348.)


                            Cross References

    Disabled veterans excused from fulfilling residence and cultivation 
requirements, see section 238 of this title.
