---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460aa–11"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460aa–11"
heading: "Patents; restriction on issuance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460aa-11"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXV — Sawtooth National Recreation Area"
---

# §460aa–11. Patents; restriction on issuance


Patents shall not hereafter be issued for locations and claims heretofore made in the recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) under the mining laws of the United States.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–400, § 12, Aug. 22, 1972, 86 Stat. 615.)