§ 500b. — Filing claim of title to reindeer by nonnatives.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 25USC500b]
TITLE 25--INDIANS
CHAPTER 14--MISCELLANEOUS
SUBCHAPTER VII--REINDEER INDUSTRY
Sec. 500b. Filing claim of title to reindeer by nonnatives
All persons, other than natives of Alaska, who upon September 1,
1937, claim title to any Alaskan reindeer shall, within one year after
September 1, 1937, file in Alaska, with the duly authorized agent or
agents of the Secretary of the Interior, declarations of their
ownership. Similar declarations concerning Alaskan reindeer acquired by
any person not a native of Alaska by purchase or by gift at any time
after September 1, 1937, shall be filed as aforesaid within thirty days
after the date of such acquisition. Records of all declarations thus
filed shall be made and kept open to public inspection in Alaska. If any
owner of Alaskan reindeer, to whom the foregoing provisions of this
section are applicable, shall fail to file the required declaration
within the stated period, he shall be barred thereafter from asserting
his claim of title.
(Sept. 1, 1937, ch. 897, Sec. 3, 50 Stat. 900.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 250b of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
