§ 122. — Discontinuance of land offices by Secretary of the Interior.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC122]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 5--LAND DISTRICTS
Sec. 122. Discontinuance of land offices by Secretary of the
Interior
Whenever the quantity of public land remaining unsold in any land
district is reduced to a number of acres less than one hundred thousand,
it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to discontinue the
land office of such district; and if any land in any such district
remains unsold at the time of the discontinuance of a land office, the
same shall be subject to sale at some one of the existing land offices
most convenient to the district in which the land office has been
discontinued, of which the Secretary of the Interior shall give notice.
(R.S. Sec. 2248.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2248 derived from act June 12, 1840, ch. 36, Sec. 2, 5
Stat. 385.
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.
