Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 30 — Administration of Public Lands
§ 1441. Lease of contiguous public lands for public airports; authority of Secretary of the Interior
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, to lease for use as a public airport any contiguous public lands, unreserved and unappropriated, not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in area, subject to valid rights in such lands under the public-land laws.
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.
Pub. L. 70–728 § 1 · 45 Stat. 728
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1441
May 24, 1928, ch. 728, § 1, 45 Stat. 728
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 24, 1928, ch. 728, § 1, 45 Stat. 728
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was previously classified to section 211 of former Title 49, Transportation.
Amendments
1941—Act , increased area of land authorized for lease as airport from six hundred and forty acres to two thousand five hundred and sixty acres.
Credits
1928–1941 · 2 acts
- 1928May 24, 1928, ch. 728, § 1, 45 Stat. 728
- 1941Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 354, 55 Stat. 621.
Show as published
(May 24, 1928, ch. 728, § 1, 45 Stat. 728; Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 354, 55 Stat. 621.)