---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 U.S.C. § 402a"
title: "25"
title_heading: "Indians"
number: "402a"
heading: "Lease of unallotted irrigable lands for farming purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/25/402a"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Lease, Sale, or Surrender of Allotted or Unallotted Lands"
---

# §402a. Lease of unallotted irrigable lands for farming purposes


The unallotted irrigable lands on any Indian reservation may be leased for farming purposes for not to exceed ten years with the consent of the tribal council, business committee, or other authorized body representative of the Indians, under such rules and regulations as the [Secretary](/usc/25/5130.md?p=1) of the Interior may prescribe.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1926, ch. 787, 44 Stat. 894.)