§ 107. — Penalty for false information.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC107]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 4--DISTRICT LAND OFFICES
Sec. 107. Penalty for false information
If any person applies to any officer designated by the Secretary of
the Interior to enter any land whatever, and the officer knowingly and
falsely informs the person so applying that the same has already been
entered, and refuses to permit the person so applying to enter the same,
such officer shall be liable therefor, to the person so applying, for $5
for each acre of land which the person so applying offered to enter, to
be recovered by action of debt in any court of record having
jurisdiction of the amount.
(R.S. Sec. 2247; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946,
11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2247 derived from act July 4, 1836, ch. 352, Sec. 13, 5
Stat. 112.
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,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out
under section 1451 of this title.
References to ``register'' changed to ``officer designated by the
Secretary of the Interior'' and ``officer'' on authority of section 403
of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this
title.
