---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 1466"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "1466"
heading: "Land and personal property title"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/1466"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — Financing Economic Development of Indians and Indian Organizations"
  - "Subchapter I — Indian Revolving Loan Fund"
---

# §1466. Land and personal property title


Title to any land purchased by a [tribe](/usc/25/1452.md?p=c) or by an individual [Indian](/usc/25/1452.md?p=b) with loans made from the revolving loan fund may be taken in trust unless the land is located outside the boundaries of a [reservation](/usc/25/1452.md?p=d) or a tribal consolidation area approved by the [Secretary](/usc/25/1452.md?p=a). Title to any land purchased by a [tribe](/usc/25/1452.md?p=c) or an individual [Indian](/usc/25/1452.md?p=b) which is outside the boundaries of the [reservation](/usc/25/1452.md?p=d) or approved consolidation area may be taken in trust if the purchaser was the owner of trust or restricted interests in the land before the purchase, otherwise title shall be taken in the name of the purchasers without any restriction on alienation, control, or use. Title to any personal property purchased with a loan from the revolving loan fund shall be taken in the name of the purchaser.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–262, title I, § 106, Apr. 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 78.)