---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
key: "ch12/schVI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter VI"
heading: "Water Right Applications and Land Entries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/ch12-schVI"
sections_count: 19
---

# Subchapter VI — Water Right Applications and Land Entries

Title 43 — Public Lands › Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government

## Sections

- [§431. Limitation as to amount of water; qualifications of applicant](/usc/43/431.md)
- [§432. Entry under homestead laws generally](/usc/43/432.md)
- [§433. Character and capital qualification of entrymen](/usc/43/433.md)
- [§433a. Preference of needy families](/usc/43/433a.md)
- [§434. Amount of land for which entry may be made; farm unit; subdivision of lands](/usc/43/434.md)
- [§435. Entries in excess of farm unit](/usc/43/435.md)
- [§436. Time when entry may be made generally](/usc/43/436.md)
- [§437. Lands as to which entries made prior to](/usc/43/437.md)
- [§438. Repealed.](/usc/43/438.md)
- [§439. Cultivation requirement as to entrymen](/usc/43/439.md)
- [§440. Regulations as to use of water and requirements as to cultivation and reclamation of land; cancellation for noncompliance with requirements](/usc/43/440.md)
- [§441. Assignment of entries generally](/usc/43/441.md)
- [§442. Assignment between](/usc/43/442.md)
- [§443. Limitation of amount of land holdable under assignment of entry](/usc/43/443.md)
- [§445. Omitted](/usc/43/445.md)
- [§446. Right to make entry on relinquishment of former entry under land laws](/usc/43/446.md)
- [§447. Relinquishment of homestead entry and making new entry](/usc/43/447.md)
- [§448. Desert-land entries within reclamation project generally](/usc/43/448.md)
- [§449. Assignment of desert-land entry within project](/usc/43/449.md)