[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR2522.2]

[Page 122]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2520_DESERT-LAND ENTRIES--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart 2522_Extensions of Time To Make Final Proof
 
Sec. 2522.2  Procedure on applications for extensions of time, where 
contest is pending.

    (a) A pending contest against a desert-land entry will not prevent 
the allowance of an application for extension of time, where the contest 
affidavit does not charge facts tending to overcome the prima facie 
showing of right to such extension (41 L.D. 603).
    (b) Consideration of an application for extension of time will not 
be deferred because of the pendency of a contest against the entry in 
question unless the contest charges be sufficient, if proven, to 
negative the right of the entryman to an extension of time for making 
final proof. If the contest charges be insufficient, the application for 
extension, where regular in all respects, will be allowed and the 
contest dismissed subject to the right of appeal, but without prejudice 
to the contestant's right to amend his charges.