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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 12C — Fort Peck Project

§ 833n. Use of deposits by allottees; nontaxability of lands

Statutory text

Funds deposited to the credit of allottees, their heirs, or devisees may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the acquisition of other lands and improvements, or the relocation of existing improvements or construction of new improvements on the lands so acquired for the allottees or heirs whose lands and improvements are acquired under the provisions of sections 833l to 833p of this title. Lands so acquired shall be held in the same status as those from which the funds were derived, and shall be nontaxable until otherwise provided by Congress.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 79–199 § 3 · 60 Stat. 118

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 833n

    (Apr. 23, 1946, ch. 199, § 3, 60 Stat. 118.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 23, 1946, ch. 199, § 3, 60 Stat. 118.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. Funds deposited to the credit of allottees, their heirs, or devisees may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, for the acquisition of other lands and improvements, or the relocation of existing improvements or construction of new improvements on the lands so acquired for the allottees or heirs whose lands and improvements are acquired under the provisions of this Act. Status of acquired lands. Lands so acquired shall be held in the same status as those from which the funds were derived, and shall be nontaxable until otherwise provided by Congress.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of act , which comprises this chapter.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. , 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Credits

(Apr. 23, 1946, ch. 199, § 3, 60 Stat. 118.)

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