---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 443"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "443"
heading: "Limitation of amount of land holdable under assignment of entry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/443"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter VI — Water Right Applications and Land Entries"
---

# §443. Limitation of amount of land holdable under assignment of entry


No person shall hold by assignment more than one farm unit prior to final payment of all charges for all the land held by him subject to the reclamation law, except operation and maintenance charges not then due.


## Source credit

(Aug. 13, 1914, ch. 247, § 13, 38 Stat. 690.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The reclamation law, referred to in text, is defined in section 472 of this title.