ARTICLE 2. Payments, Certificates of Purchase, and Patents

Article 2 added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.

§§ 7723–7733 · 8 sections

• § 7723 Certificates of purchase, and all rights acquired thereunder, are subject to sale, by deed or assignment, executed and acknowledged before any officer…
• § 7724 All such sales shall, when the deed or assignment is recorded by the county recorder, be reported by him to the commission, to be entered in its books.
• § 7725 The recorder is entitled to receive from the purchaser, for making such report, a fee of fifty cents ($0.50).
• § 7729 Whenever a person becomes entitled to a patent, the commission, upon the surrender of the full-paid certificate of purchase or the submission of an affidavit…
• § 7730 The patent or deed shall then be signed by the Governor, attested by the Secretary of State, sealed with the Great Seal of the State of California, and…
• § 7731 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…
• § 7732 The commission shall record all patents in books to be kept in its office for that purpose, and then deliver them to persons entitled thereto.
• § 7733 Where a patent for lands is issued in the name of a deceased person, the title is vested in the heirs, devisees, or assignees of such person in the same manner…