---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 1714"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "1714"
heading: "Deposit of royalty funds to Indian accounts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/1714"
units:
  - "Chapter 29 — Oil and Gas Royalty Management"
  - "Subchapter I — Federal Royalty Management and Enforcement"
---

# §1714. Deposit of royalty funds to Indian accounts


Deposits of any [royalty](/usc/30/1702.md?p=14) funds derived from the [production](/usc/30/1702.md?p=13) of [oil or gas](/usc/30/1702.md?p=9) from, or allocated to, [Indian lands](/usc/30/1702.md?p=3) shall be made by the [Secretary](/usc/30/1702.md?p=15) to the appropriate Indian account at the earliest practicable date after such funds are received by the [Secretary](/usc/30/1702.md?p=15) but in no case later than the last business day of the month in which such funds are received.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 104(b), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2452.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Pub. L. 97–451, title I, § 104(c), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2452, provided that: “The provisions of this section [enacting this section and amending section 191 of this title] shall apply with respect to payments received by the Secretary after October 1, 1983, unless the Secretary, by rule, prescribes an earlier effective date.”