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GENERAL PROVISIONS›CHAPTER 3. Sale of Inland Lake and Unsegregated Swamp and Overflowed Lands 7601-7609›ARTICLE 2. Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents 7723-7733

§ 7731

California Public Resources Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-09-27 · California

No patent shall issue until the lands are relinquished to the State by authority of the General Land Office at Washington. Such relinquishment is not required for locations of the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections in place, or for swamp and overflowed lands, shown to be such by the official surveys made by authority of the United States.

(Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)

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