Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§101 Report of disqualification; designation of officer to act

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 4— - DISTRICT LAND OFFICES › § 101

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

A disqualified officer must tell the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary’s designee before the hearing; with the Secretary’s approval a replacement Land Department officer or agent gets the same authority.

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Title 43, §101

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It shall be the duty of every officer so disqualified to report the fact of his disqualification to the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate as soon as he shall ascertain it, and before the hearing of such cause, who thereupon, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall designate some other officer or special agent of the Land Department to act in the place of the disqualified officer, and the same authority is conferred on the officer so designated which such officer would otherwise have possessed to act in such case.

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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, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title. Word “officer” substituted for “register” and “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. Act Mar. 3, 1925, abolished office of surveyor general and transferred administration of all activities in charge of surveyors general to Field Surveying Service under jurisdiction of United States Supervisor of Surveys.

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43 U.S.C. § 101

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73