{"data":{"id":"us/30-u.s.c.-702","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"30 U.S.C. § 702","heading":"“Qualified applicant” defined","body":"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.","path":["Title 30—MINERAL LANDS AND MINING","CHAPTER 20—CONVEYANCES TO OCCUPANTS OF UNPATENTED MINING CLAIMS"],"source_url":"https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/103/xml_usc30@119-103.zip","current_through":"Public Law 119-103 (09/02/2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-10T05:58:53Z","sha256":"df5697d69008d5329e43e1a0f058c01c7f495bd9ac3494e5b3586234a5098661","source_id":"us","stale":false,"prev":"us/30-u.s.c.-701","next":"us/30-u.s.c.-703"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}