---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 325"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "325"
heading: "Resident citizenship of State as qualification for entry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/325"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Desert-Land Entries"
---

# §325. Resident citizenship of State as qualification for entry


Excepting in the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) of Nevada, no person shall be entitled to make entry of desert lands unless he be a resident citizen of the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) or Territory in which the land sought to be entered is located.


## Source credit

(Mar. 3, 1877, ch. 107, § 8, as added Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, § 2, 26 Stat. 1097; amended Jan. 6, 1921, ch. 12, 41 Stat. 1086.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section is comprised of the second clause of section 8 of act Mar. 3, 1877, as added by act Mar. 3, 1891. The first clause of section 8 of act Mar. 3, 1877, is incorporated in section 323 of this title.

Act Jan. 6, 1921, inserted introductory exception phrase.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Section as Unaffected by Submerged Lands Act

Provisions of this section as not amended, modified or repealed by the Submerged Lands Act, see section 1303 of this title.