Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73

§315a Protection, administration, regulation, and improvement of districts; rules and regulations; study of erosion and flood control; offenses

Title 43 › Chapter CHAPTER 8A— - GRAZING LANDS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - GENERALLY › § 315a

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must protect, run, regulate, and improve grazing districts set up under the law. He must make rules, set up services, work with others, and do what is needed to control use of the land, keep soil and resources from damage, and plan orderly use and improvement of the range. He may keep studying erosion and flood control and do work to protect and restore these areas with available funds. Anyone who willfully breaks the rules after being notified can be fined up to $500.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §315a

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The Secretary of the Interior shall make provision for the protection, administration, regulation, and improvement of such grazing districts as may be created under the authority of section 315 of this title, and he shall make such rules and regulations and establish such service, enter into such cooperative agreements, and do any and all things necessary to accomplish the purposes of this subchapter and to insure the objects of such grazing districts, namely, to regulate their occupancy and use, to preserve the land and its resources from destruction or unnecessary injury, to provide for the orderly use, improvement, and development of the range; and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to continue the study of erosion and flood control and to perform such work as may be necessary amply to protect and rehabilitate the areas subject to the provisions of this subchapter, through such funds as may be made available for that purpose, and any willful violation of the provisions of this subchapter or of such rules and regulations thereunder after actual notice thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 315a

Title 43 — Public Lands

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73