---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
key: "ch9"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 9"
heading: "Desert-Land Entries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/ch9"
sections_count: 22
---

# Chapter 9 — Desert-Land Entries

Title 43 — Public Lands

## Sections

- [§321. Entry right generally; extent of right to appropriate waters](/usc/43/321.md)
- [§322. Desert lands defined; question how determined](/usc/43/322.md)
- [§323. Application to certain States](/usc/43/323.md)
- [§324. Assignment of entries](/usc/43/324.md)
- [§325. Resident citizenship of State as qualification for entry](/usc/43/325.md)
- [§326. Unsurveyed lands not subject to entry; preferential right of entry after survey](/usc/43/326.md)
- [§327. Filing irrigation plan; association of entrymen](/usc/43/327.md)
- [§328. Expenditures and cultivation requirements](/usc/43/328.md)
- [§329. Issue of patent on final proof; citizenship requirement as to patentee; limit as to amount of holding](/usc/43/329.md)
- [§330. Desert-land entry in addition to homestead entry](/usc/43/330.md)
- [§331. Reclamation requirements waived in favor of disabled soldiers, etc.](/usc/43/331.md)
- [§332. Omitted](/usc/43/332.md)
- [§333. Extension of time for completion of irrigation works](/usc/43/333.md)
- [§334. Further extension of time for final proofs](/usc/43/334.md)
- [§335. Further extension in cases not covered by sections 333 and 334 of this title](/usc/43/335.md)
- [§336. Further extension in addition to that authorized by sections 333 to 335 of this title](/usc/43/336.md)
- [§336b. Repealed.](/usc/43/336b.md)
- [§336c. Omitted](/usc/43/336c.md)
- [§336d. Repealed.](/usc/43/336d.md)
- [§337. Entry, after expenditures, perfected as homestead entry](/usc/43/337.md)
- [§338. Election to perfect entry; final proof](/usc/43/338.md)
- [§339. Perfection of title to entry; supplementary provisions to sections 335, 337, and 338](/usc/43/339.md)