§ 2. — Duties concerning public 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: 43USC2]
TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 1--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
Sec. 2. Duties concerning public lands
The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate
shall perform all executive duties appertaining to the surveying and
sale of the public lands of the United States, or in anywise respecting
such public lands, and, also, such as relate to private claims of land,
and the issuing of patents for all grants of land under the authority of
the Government.
(R.S. Sec. 453; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, Sec. 1, 18 Stat. 317; 1946 Reorg.
Plan No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 453 derived from acts Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, Sec. 1, 2
Stat. 716; July 4, 1836, ch. 352, Sec. 1, 5 Stat. 107; June 6, 1874, ch.
223, 18 Stat. 62; Feb. 18, 1875, ch. 80, Sec. 1, 18 Stat. 317.
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.
``The Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate
shall perform'' substituted for ``The Commissioner of the General Land
Office shall perform, under the direction of the Secretary of the
Interior,'' on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946.
See note set out under section 1 of this title.
Bureau of Land Management Drug Enforcement Supplemental Authority
Pub. L. 99-570, title V, subtitle C, as added by Pub. L. 100-690,
title VII, Sec. 6254(d)(3), Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4365, provided
that:
``SEC. 5061. SHORT TITLE.
``This subtitle may be cited as the `Bureau of Land Management Drug
Enforcement Supplemental Authority Act'.
``SEC. 5062. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT AUTHORIZATION.
``In order to improve Federal law enforcement activities relating to
the use and production of narcotics and controlled substances on Bureau
of Land Management public lands, from amounts appropriated there are
made available to the Secretary of the Interior, in addition to sums
made available under other authority of law, $1,500,000 for fiscal year
1989, and for each fiscal year thereafter, to be used for the employment
and training of additional and existing personnel, for equipment and
facilities to be used by such personnel, and for expenses related to
such employment, training, equipment, and facilities.''