---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 424b"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "424b"
heading: "Application of certain statutes to lands sold"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/424b"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter V — Administration of Existing Projects"
---

# §424b. Application of certain statutes to lands sold


All “permanently unproductive” and “temporarily unproductive” land now or hereafter designated under sections [423](/usc/43/423.md) to [423g](/usc/43/423g.md) and 610 of this title, shall, when sold, remain subject to sections [423](/usc/43/423.md) and [423b](/usc/43/423b.md) of this title. The exchange provisions of [section 423c of this title](/usc/43/423c.md), shall not be applicable to the land purchased under sections [424](/usc/43/424.md) to [424e](/usc/43/424e.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(May 16, 1930, ch. 292, § 3, 46 Stat. 367.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Sections 423 to 423g and 610 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original “the Act of May 25, 1926”, meaning act of May 25, 1926, ch. 383, 44 Stat. 636, which enacted sections 423 to 423g and 610 of this title. Section 610 of this title was omitted from the Code. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.