Title 43 — Public Lands
Chapter 20 — Reservations and Grants to States for Public Purposes
§ 852b. Survey of lands prior to transfer; time for survey; availability of funds; lands suitable for transfer
Statutory text
Prior to issuance of an instrument of transfer, lands must be surveyed. The Secretary of the Interior shall within five years, subject to the availability of funds, survey the exterior boundaries of lands approved as suitable for transfer to the State.
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. 89–470 § 4 · 80 Stat. 220
Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 852b
(Pub. L. 89–470, § 4, June 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 220.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 89–470, § 4, June 24, 1966, 80 Stat. 220.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. Prior to issuance of an instrument of transfer, lands must be surveyed. The Secretary of the Interior shall within five years, subject to the availability of funds, survey the exterior boundaries of lands approved as suitable for transfer to the State.
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