"Qualified applicant" defined — Us Code Code § 702
Us Code Code § 702 — "Qualified applicant" defined. Reproduced from the official United States Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 702. "Qualified applicant" defined
For the purposes of this chapter a qualified applicant is a residential occupant-owner, as of October 23, 1962, of valuable improvements in an unpatented mining claim which constitute for him a principal place of residence and which he and his predecessors in interest were in possession of for not less than seven years prior to July 23, 1962.
(Pub. L. 87–851, §2, Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1127.)
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