---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 2547.1"
title: "43"
number: "2547.1"
heading: "Qualifications of applicants."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/2547.1"
---

# §2547.1. Qualifications of applicants.

- (a) Any person authorized to hold title to land in the State may make application under [section 211](/cfr/43/211.md) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 ([43 U.S.C. 1721](/usc/43/1721.md)). For regulations on conveyances of omitted lands and unsurveyed islands to State and local governments see [subpart 2742 of this title](/cfr/43/subpart2742.md).
- (b) The applicant shall be a citizen of the United States, or in the case of corporation, shall be organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof.
- (c) The applicant shall have occupied and developed the lands for a 5-year period prior to January 1, 1975.

## Notes

### Amendments

[44 FR 41793, July 18, 1979; 44 FR 55876, Sept. 28, 1979]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 211 and 310 of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1721 and 1740).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 41793, July 18, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[44 FR 41793, July 18, 1979; 44 FR 55876, Sept. 28, 1979]