---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 315"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "315"
heading: "Time for completion of road; forfeiture"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/315"
units:
  - "Chapter 8 — Rights-Of-Way Through Indian Lands"
---

# §315. Time for completion of road; forfeiture


If any such company shall fail to construct and put in operation one-tenth of its entire line in one year, or to complete its road within three years after the approval of its map of location by the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior, the right of way granted shall be deemed forfeited and abandoned ipso facto as to that portion of the road not then constructed and in operation: Provided, That the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) may, when he deems proper, extend, for a period not exceeding two years, the time for the completion of any road for which right of way has been granted and a part of which shall have been built.


## Source credit

(Mar. 2, 1899, ch. 374, § 4, 30 Stat. 991.)