---
kind: "section"
citation: "30 U.S.C. § 708"
title: "30"
title_heading: "Mineral Lands and Mining"
number: "708"
heading: "Assignments; succession"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/30/708"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Conveyances to Occupants of Unpatented Mining Claims"
---

# §708. Assignments; succession


Rights and privileges to qualify as an applicant under this chapter shall not be assignable, but may pass through devise or descent.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 87–851, § 8, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1128.)