§ 14. — Returns relative to lands.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC14]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 1--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Sec. 14. Returns relative to lands
All returns relative to the public lands shall be made to the
Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.
(R.S. Sec. 456; July 31, 1894, ch. 174, Sec. 7, 28 Stat. 207; 1946
Reorg. Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat.
1100.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 456 derived from act Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, Sec. 9, 2
Stat. 717.
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.
``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.