---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 394"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "394"
heading: "Leases of arid allotted lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/394"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands"
---

# §394. Leases of arid allotted lands


Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior that the allotted lands of any Indian are arid but susceptible of irrigation and that the allottee, by reason of old age or other disability, cannot personally occupy or improve his allotment or any portion thereof, such lands, or such portion thereof, may be leased for a period not exceeding ten years, under such terms, rules, and regulations as may be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(May 18, 1916, ch. 125, § 1, 39 Stat. 128.)