43 U.S.C. § 433a — Preference of needy families

FEDERAL · 43 U.S.C. · Chapter 12

Preference of needy families

Current through Pub. L. 119-102

Title 43 — Public Lands·Ch. 12 — RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT·Subch. VI

It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that, in the opening to entry of newly irrigated public lands, preference shall be given to families who have no other means of earning a livelihood, or who have been compelled to abandon, through no fault of their own, other farms in the United States, and with respect to whom it appears after careful study, in the case of each such family, that there is a probability that such family will be able to earn a livelihood on such irrigated lands.

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It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that, in the opening to entry of newly irrigated public lands, preference shall be given to families who have no other means of earning a livelihood, or who have been compelled to abandon, through no fault of their own, other farms in the United States, and with respect to whom it appears after careful study, in the case of each such family, that there is a probability that such family will be able to earn a livelihood on such irrigated lands.

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History

(June 18, 1940, ch. 395, §1, 54 Stat. 439.)