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

# §482q. Perfection of mining claims within forest


Valid mining claims within the said lands, existing on July 12, 1951, 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 [482o](/usc/16/482o.md) to 482q of this title, or under the laws under which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire.


## Source credit

(July 12, 1951, ch. 222, § 3, 65 Stat. 119.)