§ 101. — Report of disqualification; designation of officer to act.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC101]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 4--DISTRICT LAND OFFICES
Sec. 101. Report of disqualification; designation of officer to
act
It shall be the duty of every officer so disqualified to report the
fact of his disqualification to the Secretary of the Interior or such
officer as he may designate as soon as he shall ascertain it, and before
the hearing of such cause, who thereupon, with the approval of the
Secretary of the Interior, shall designate some other officer or special
agent of the Land Department to act in the place of the disqualified
officer, and the same authority is conferred on the officer so
designated which such officer would otherwise have possessed to act in
such case.
(Jan. 11, 1894, ch. 10, Sec. 2, 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.)
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'' and ``Secretary of the
Interior or such officer as he may designate'' substituted for
``Commissioner of the General Land Office'' on authority of section 403
of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this
title.
Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and
transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors
general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States
Supervisor of Surveys.
