---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 482n–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "482n–2"
heading: "Perfection of mining claims within forest"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/482n-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §482n–2. Perfection of mining claims within forest


Valid mining claims within the said lands, existing on May 24, 1949, and thereafter maintained in compliance with the law under which they were initiated and the laws of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Arizona, may be perfected under sections [482n](/usc/16/482n.md) to [482n–3](/usc/16/482n–3.md) of this title, or under the laws under which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire.


## Source credit

(May 24, 1949, ch. 136, § 3, 63 Stat. 76.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

May 24, 1949, referred to in text, was in the original “the date of enactment of this Act”. The date thus referred to is deemed to relate to the date of enactment of section 482n–3 of this title, May 19, 1955, as applied to any land described in section 482n–3 of this title.