---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 627"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "627"
heading: "Sale of unpatented and unentered land prohibited; suspension of entry"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/627"
units:
  - "Chapter 13 — Federal Lands Included in State Irrigation Districts"
---

# §627. Sale of unpatented and unentered land prohibited; suspension of entry


No [public lands](/usc/43/155.md?p=1) which were unentered at the time any tax or assessment was levied against same by such irrigation [district](/usc/43/316a.md?p=2) shall be sold for such taxes or assessments, but such tax or assessment shall be and continue a lien upon such lands, and not more than one hundred and sixty acres of such land shall be entered by any one person; and when such lands shall be applied for, after said approval by the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior, under the homestead or desert-land laws of the United States the application shall be suspended for a period of thirty days to enable the applicant to present a certificate from the proper [district](/usc/43/316a.md?p=2) or county officer showing that no unpaid [district](/usc/43/316a.md?p=2) charges are due and delinquent against said land.


## Source credit

(Aug. 11, 1916, ch. 319, § 5, 39 Stat. 508.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The desert-land laws of the United States, referred to in text, are classified generally to chapter 9 (§ 321 et seq.) of this title.