§ 123a. — Continuation of existing land districts and offices in Alaska; change of district boundaries, or discontinuance of districts; designation and location of land offices.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC123a]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 5--LAND DISTRICTS
Sec. 123a. Continuation of existing land districts and offices
in Alaska; change of district boundaries, or discontinuance of
districts; designation and location of land offices
Subject to the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the
Interior by this section, the land districts and land offices existing
in Alaska on October 9, 1942 are continued. The Secretary of the
Interior is authorized and empowered in his discretion to change the
boundaries of, or discontinue, any land district in Alaska, and in lieu
thereof to designate such land district, or land region, as, in his
opinion, is necessary for the transaction of the business relating to
the public lands in the Territory and to designate or change the
location of any land office for such land district or land region.
(Oct. 9, 1942, ch. 584, Sec. 6, 56 Stat. 779.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 365 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
Land Districts and Land Offices Continued
Provisions of acts Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, Sec. 1, 32 Stat. 20; Mar.
2, 1907, ch. 2537, Sec. 1, 34 Stat. 1232, which constituted former
section 365 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions, and were
repealed by section 7 of Act Oct. 9, 1942, which enacted this section,
read as follows: ``There shall be two land districts in Alaska, the
boundaries of which shall be designated by the President, to be known as
the Nome land district and the Fairbanks land district, with the land
offices located, respectively, at Nome, Alaska, and Fairbanks, Alaska,
and one other land district and land office, the location of which shall
be fixed by the President.''
