Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73
§149 Exchange of private lands included in Indian reservation for other lands
Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 6— - WITHDRAWAL FROM SETTLEMENT, LOCATION, SALE, OR ENTRY › § 149
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior may allow an owner to trade private land that was made part of an Indian reservation by Executive order for public land. The public land must be surveyed, vacant, without minerals or timber, and equal in area and value, and it must be in the same State or Territory. The owner pays the costs and the exchange follows the Secretary’s rules.
Full Legal Text
Title 43, §149
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Any private land over which an Indian reservation has been extended by Executive order, may be exchanged at the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior and at the expense of the owner thereof and under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, for vacant, nonmineral, nontimbered, surveyed public lands of equal area and value and situated in the same State or Territory.
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Citation
43 U.S.C. § 149
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73