Legal corpus: the complete U.S. Code (59,740 sections, all 53 titles)

Ingested titles 12–51 and 54 from OLRC USLM XML @119-100 (the whole Code
now, uniform edition; Title 53 is reserved/empty). LegalText 11,221 ->
59,740; repo total 105,704 records. Deterministic (byte-identical rerun,
verified on Title 42's 8,356 sections); make check green. make
legal-us-code default now covers every title.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legal/us/code/title-16/chapter-2/section-482q.md

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+---
+type: "LegalText"
+title: "16 U.S.C. § 482q"
+description: "Perfection of mining claims within forest"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 16
+title_name: "CONSERVATION"
+chapter_number: "2"
+chapter_name: "NATIONAL FORESTS"
+section: "482q"
+citation: "16 U.S.C. § 482q"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s482q"
+source_file: "data/legal/raw/us/code/title-16/usc16.xml"
+source_hash: "c36e2521d573b75cb07125b313a198057bbd1e3adadd9089b68617f4b62ca412"
+raw_snapshot_hash: "7be8950da5a93cac7c98e4576ce00340f2aba5e8e46d29915382c203c421d503"
+text_hash: "790b419fafdc56865bf6008f5822cd14d592d3b73a505b744633bfe44594f2ca"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 16 U.S.C. § 482q - Perfection of mining claims within forest
+
+## Text
+
+Valid mining claims within the said lands, existing on July 12, 1951, and thereafter maintained in compliance with the law under which they were initiated and the laws of the State of Arizona, may be perfected under sections 482o to 482q of this title, or under the laws under which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire.
+
+(July 12, 1951, ch. 222, § 3, 65 Stat. 119.)