---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 162.006"
title: "25"
number: "162.006"
heading: "To what types of land use agreements does this part apply?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/162.006"
---

# §162.006. To what types of land use agreements does this part apply?

- (a) This part applies to leases of Indian land entered into under 25 U.S.C. [380](/usc/25/380.md), [25](/usc/25/25.md) U.S.C. 415(a), and [25 U.S.C. 4211](/usc/25/4211.md), and other tribe-specific statutes authorizing surface leases of Indian land with our approval.
- (b) **This part does not apply to—**
  - (1) **Land use agreements entered into under other statutory authority, such as the following—**
  - (2) Leases of water rights associated with Indian land, except to the extent the use of water rights is incorporated in a lease of the land itself.
  - (3) The following leases, which do not require our approval, except that you must record these leases in accordance with §§ [162.343](/cfr/25/162.343.md), [162.443](/cfr/25/162.443.md), and [162.568](/cfr/25/162.568.md):
    - (i) A lease of tribal land by a [25 U.S.C. 477](/usc/25/477.md) corporate entity under its charter to a third party for a period not to exceed 25 years; and
    - (ii) **A lease of Indian land under a special act of Congress authorizing leasing without our approval.**

## Notes

### Source

Source: 77 FR 72467, Dec. 5, 2012, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, R.S. 463 and 465; 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9. Interpret or apply sec. 3, 26 Stat. 795, sec. 1, 28 Stat. 305, secs. 1, 2, 31 Stat. 229, 246, secs. 7, 12, 34 Stat. 545, 34 Stat. 1015, 1034, 35 Stat. 70, 95, 97, sec. 4, 36 Stat. 856, sec. 1, 39 Stat. 128, 41 Stat. 415, as amended, 751, 1232, sec. 17, 43 Stat. 636, 641, 44 Stat. 658, as amended, 894, 1365, as amended, 47 Stat. 1417, sec. 17, 48 Stat. 984, 988, 49 Stat. 115, 1135, sec. 55, 49 Stat. 781, sec. 3, 49 Stat. 1967, 54 Stat. 745, 1057, 60 Stat. 308, secs. 1, 2, 60 Stat. 962, sec. 5, 64 Stat. 46, secs. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 64 Stat. 470, 69 Stat. 539, 540, 72 Stat. 968, 107 Stat. 2011, 108 Stat. 4572, March 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 4016; 25 U.S.C. 380, 393, 393a, 394, 395, 397, 402, 402a, 403, 403a, 403b, 403c, 409a, 413, 415, 415a, 415b, 415c, 415d, 416, 477, 635, 2201 et seq., 3701, 3702, 3703, 3712, 3713, 3714, 3715, 3731, 3733, 4211; 44 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.

### Source

Source: 66 FR 7109, Jan. 22, 2001, unless otherwise noted.