§ 1545. Lease and sale of public property; conveyance of title in certain lands to the government of Virgin Islands

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. 1954

   Pub. L. 83–558 § 31 · 68 Stat. 587

   Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1545

   July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 31, 68 Stat. 510

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 31, 68 Stat. 510

2. 1974

   Pub. L. 93–435 § 3 · 88 Stat. 1210

   Substituted · 48 U.S.C. § 1545(b)

   Pub. L. 93–435 substituted provisions conveying to the government of Virgin Islands title in lands now under its control with power to the Secretary of the Interior to reserve rights to the United States within 120 days after Oct. 5, 1974, with the exception of land and property being administered by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the National Park System, for provisions that the government of Virgin Islands shall continue to have control over all public property under its control on July 22, 1954

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93–435 substituted provisions conveying to the government of Virgin Islands title in lands now under its control with power to the Secretary of the Interior to reserve rights to the United States within 120 days after Oct. 5, 1974, with the exception of land and property being administered by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the National Park System, for provisions that the government of Virgin Islands shall continue to have control over all public property under its control on July 22, 1954.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. Subsection (b) of section 31 of the Revised Organic Act of Virgin Islands, public property. the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1545(b)) is amended to read as follows: “(b) All right, title, and interest of the United States in the property placed under the control of the government of the Virgin Islands by section 4(a) of the Organic Act of the Virgin Islands of the United States (48 U.S.C. 1405c(a)), not reserved to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior within one hundred and twenty days after the date of enactment of this subsection, is hereby conveyed to such government. The conveyance effected by the preceding sentence shall not apply to that land and other property which on the date of enactment of this subsection is administered by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the National Park System and such lands and other property shall be retained by the United States.”.

3. 1980

   Pub. L. 96–205 title IV § 401(a) · 94 Stat. 84

   1. Amended · 48 U.S.C. § 1545(b)

      Pub. L. 96–205 designated existing provisions as par. (1)

   2. Added · 48 U.S.C. § 1545(b)

      Pub. L. 96–205 added par. (2)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–205 designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Subsection (b) of section 31 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands (48 U.S.C. 1545(b)), as amended, is further amended by numbering the existing paragraph “(1)” and by the addition thereto of the following new paragraph: “(2) Subject to valid existing rights, title to all property in the Virgin Islands which may have been acquired by the United States 39 Stat. 1706. from Denmark under the Convention entered into August 16, 1916, not reserved or retained by the United States in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 93–435 (88 Stat. 1210) is hereby transferred 48 USC 1705 et seq. to the Virgin Islands government.”.

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