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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="13-401" title_number="13" title_name="Land Patents" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Objections, Hearings, and Determination">
  <text>The following persons may file an objection to the granting of a patent for all or any portion of the land described in the application:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Any person or governmental body with prior title to any portion of the land, except that, if the land is land for which a patent never has been issued, the State and its agencies may object only in accordance with item (3) of this section;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Any person who possesses any portion of the land under claim of ownership in a manner that, either directly or by tacking, is actual, open, notorious, exclusive, and continuous and uninterrupted for the 20 years immediately preceding the date of filing the application; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>The State or any agency of the State that requires any portion of the land for public purposes.</text>
  </level>
</section>
