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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="13-501" title_number="13" title_name="Land Patents" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Issuance of Patent">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Commissioner shall prepare a patent within 30 days after:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Commissioner or a circuit court, as the case may be, finds that a patent should issue;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That finding has become final by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Failure to file an appeal before expiration of the period within which an appeal may be taken; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The rendering on appeal of a final decision; and</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The purchase price for any vacant land and all outstanding expenses are paid.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The patent shall contain:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The name of the person to whom it is issued;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The name given to the land;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The name of the original applicant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>The date of issuance of the warrant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>The name of any person substituted as applicant and the date of the substitution;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>The date of filing the certificate or amended certificate of survey on which the patent is based;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>A description of the land, as contained in the certificate of survey; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>The Commissioner’s certificate that the patent is proper to be issued.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
