---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 965"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "965"
heading: "Restriction on use of Colorado and Wyoming pipeline right of way"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/965"
units:
  - "Chapter 22 — Rights-Of-Way and Other Easements in Public Lands"
---

# §965. Restriction on use of Colorado and Wyoming pipeline right of way


Nothing in sections [962](/usc/43/962.md) to 965 of this title shall authorize the use of such right of way except for the pipe line, and then only so far as may be necessary for its construction, maintenance, and care.


## Source credit

(May 21, 1896, ch. 212, § 4, 29 Stat. 127.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Repeal; Savings Provision

Section repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 706(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2793, effective on and after Oct. 21, 1976, insofar as applicable to the issuance of rights-of-way over, upon, under, and through the public lands and lands in the National Forest System. Such repeal not to be construed as terminating any valid lease, permit, patent, etc., existing on Oct. 21, 1976, see section 701 of Pub. L. 94–579, set out as a note under section 1701 of this title.