Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government
§ 570. Conveyance of land to school district
Statutory text
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, upon application by the proper officers of a school district located wholly or in part within the boundaries of a project of the United States Reclamation Service, to issue patent conveying to such district such unappropriated undisposed of lands, not exceeding six acres in area, within any Government reclamation town site situated within such school district as, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, are necessary for use by said district for school buildings and grounds: Provided, That if any land so conveyed cease entirely to be used for school purposes title thereto shall revert to and revest in the United States.
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. 66–92 · 41 Stat. 326
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 570
(Oct. 31, 1919, ch. 92, 41 Stat. 326.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Oct. 31, 1919, ch. 92, 41 Stat. 326.)
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Executive Documents
Change of Name
The Reclamation Service, established in July 1902, changed to the Bureau of Reclamation on , then to the Water and Power Resources Service on , and then to the Bureau of Reclamation on . See 155 Dep’t of the Interior, Departmental Manual 1.1 (2008 repl.); Sec’y Hubert Work, Dep’t of the Interior, Order (); Sec’y Cecil D. Andrus, Dep’t of the Interior, Secretarial Order 3042, §§ 1, 4 (); Sec’y James G. Watt, Dep’t of the Interior, Secretarial Order 3064, §§ 3, 5 ().
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 under section 1451 of this title.
Credits
(Oct. 31, 1919, ch. 92, 41 Stat. 326.)