§ 1612. — Surveys.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 43USC1612]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 33--ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
Sec. 1612. Surveys
(a) Areas for conveyance to Village Corporations; monumentation of
exterior boundaries; meanderable water boundaries exempt from
requirement; land occupied as primary place of residence or
business, or for other purposes and other patentable lands as
subject to survey
The Secretary shall survey the areas selected or designated for
conveyance to Village Corporations pursuant to the provisions of this
chapter. He shall monument only exterior boundaries of the selected or
designated areas at angle points and at intervals of approximately two
miles on straight lines. No ground survey or monumentation will be
required along meanderable water boundaries. He shall survey within the
areas selected or designated land occupied as a primary place of
residence, as a primary place of business, and for other purposes, and
any other land to be patented under this chapter.
(b) Withdrawals, selections, and conveyances pursuant to chapter:
current plats of surveys or protraction diagrams; conformity to
Land Survey System
All withdrawals, selections, and conveyances pursuant to this
chapter shall be as shown on current plats of survey or protraction
diagrams of the Bureau of Land Management, or protraction diagrams of
the Bureau of the State where protraction diagrams of the Bureau of Land
Management are not available, and shall conform as nearly as practicable
to the United States Land Survey System.
(Pub. L. 92-203, Sec. 13, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 702.)
