[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR402.9]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
      CHAPTER I--BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 402--SALE OF LANDS IN FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROJECTS--Table of Contents
 
                         Subpart A--Public Lands
 
Sec. 402.9  Contracts.

    A contract in form approved by the Commissioner shall be signed by 
the purchaser at the time of sale and executed on behalf of the United 
States by the Commissioner. A copy of the contract shall be furnished to 
the appropriate land office of the Bureau of Land Management for 
entering in the tract books. The contract shall contain a description of 
the land to be sold, the price and terms of sale, a full statement by 
the purchaser respecting his qualifications, including citizenship, a 
description by the purchaser of his present holdings, and a statement by 
him of the irrigable acreage of those holdings. The contract shall also 
contain a statement by the purchaser with respect to his knowledge as to 
whether the land is mineral or non-mineral in

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character, as well as all appropriate reservations, mineral and 
otherwise, required by law to be made on entries and patents. 
Assignments of contracts may be made only with the consent of the 
Commissioner and to persons legally qualified to be purchasers.