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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 8A — Grazing Lands

§ 316d. Notice of establishment and alteration of grazing district; hearings

Statutory text

Before establishing or altering a district the Secretary shall publish once a week for a period of six consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in each judicial division in which the district proposed to be established or altered is located, a notice describing the boundaries of the proposed district or the proposed alteration, announcing the date on which he proposes to establish such district or make such alteration and the location and date of hearings required under this section. No such alteration shall be made until after public hearings are held with respect to such alteration in each such judicial division after the publishing of such notice.

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. 69–513 § 5 · 44 Stat. 711

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 316d

    Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 513, § 5, 44 Stat. 1453

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 513, § 5, 44 Stat. 1453

  2. Pub. L. 90–403 § 1 · 82 Stat. 358

    Changed · 43 U.S.C. § 316d

    Pub. L. 90–403 required publication of notice of alteration of a grazing district in each judicial division in which the district proposed to be altered is located, the notice to describe the boundaries of the proposed alteration and location and date of requisite hearings, and also public hearings with respect to the alteration to be held in each such judicial division prior to making the alteration

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 90–403 required publication of notice of alteration of a grazing district in each judicial division in which the district proposed to be altered is located, the notice to describe the boundaries of the proposed alteration and location and date of requisite hearings, and also public hearings with respect to the alteration to be held in each such judicial division prior to making the alteration.

0 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 471d of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Amendments

1968—Pub. L. 90–403 required publication of notice of alteration of a grazing district in each judicial division in which the district proposed to be altered is located, the notice to describe the boundaries of the proposed alteration and location and date of requisite hearings, and also public hearings with respect to the alteration to be held in each such judicial division prior to making the alteration.

Credits

1927–1968 · 2 acts
  1. 1927Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 513, § 5, 44 Stat. 1453
  2. 1968Pub. L. 90–403, § 1, , 82 Stat. 358.
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(Mar. 4, 1927, ch. 513, § 5, 44 Stat. 1453; Pub. L. 90–403, § 1, , 82 Stat. 358.)

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