25 U.S.C. § 462
Section 462 · Existing periods of trust and restrictions on alienation extended
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 61 court decisions — leading case Capoeman v. United States (1971)
Most recently applied in In Re the Crow Water Compact (July 2015)
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Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The existing periods of trust placed upon any Indian lands and any restriction on alienation thereof are extended and continued until otherwise directed by Congress.
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Cross References
Reservations wherein a majority of the adult Indians vote against application of act of which this section is a part, see section 478 of this title.
Right-of-way grant, consent of tribal officials, see section 324 of this title.
Territories, colonies, or insular possessions of United States and certain Indian tribes, application to, see section 473 of this title.