Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§122 Discontinuance of Land Offices by Secretary of the Interior
Title 43 › CHAPTER 5 — LAND DISTRICTS › § 122
Summary
When a land district has less than 100,000 acres of public land left unsold, the Secretary of the Interior must close that district’s land office. Any land still unsold when the office closes will be sold through a nearby open land office, and the Secretary will say which one.
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Title 43, §122
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Whenever the quantity of public land remaining unsold in any land district is reduced to a number of acres less than one hundred thousand, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to discontinue the land office of such district; and if any land in any such district remains unsold at the time of the discontinuance of a land office, the same shall be subject to sale at some one of the existing land offices most convenient to the district in which the land office has been discontinued, of which the Secretary of the Interior shall give notice.
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Codification R.S. § 2248 derived from act June 12, 1840, ch. 36, § 2, 5 Stat. 385.
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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.
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43 U.S.C. § 122
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102