§ 100. — Disqualification.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC100]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 4--DISTRICT LAND OFFICES
Sec. 100. Disqualification
No officer shall receive evidence in, hear, or determine any cause
pending in any district land office in which cause he is interested
directly or indirectly, or has been of counsel, or where he is related
to any of the parties in interest by consanguinity or affinity within
the fourth degree, computing by the rules adopted by the common law.
(Jan. 11, 1894, ch. 10, Sec. 1, 28 Stat. 26; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114,
Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1145; 1946 Reorg.
Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
This section, as originally enacted, was applicable to both
registers and receivers. The office of receiver was abolished by acts
Oct. 28, 1921, and Mar. 3, 1925, which consolidated the two offices.
See, also, Transfer of Functions note below.
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.
Word ``officer'' substituted for ``register'' on authority of
section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section
1 of this title.
