Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§123a Continuation of Existing Land Districts and Offices in Alaska; Change of District Boundaries, or Discontinuance of Districts; Designation and Location of Land Offices
Title 43 › CHAPTER 5 — LAND DISTRICTS › § 123a
Summary
Keeps Alaska’s land districts and offices that existed on October 9, 1942 in place, but lets the Secretary of the Interior change boundaries, end districts, or move offices as needed to handle public land business.
Full Legal Text
Title 43, §123a
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Subject to the authority conferred upon the Secretary of the Interior by this section, the land districts and land offices existing in Alaska on October 9, 1942 are continued. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and empowered in his discretion to change the boundaries of, or discontinue, any land district in Alaska, and in lieu thereof to designate such land district, or land region, as, in his opinion, is necessary for the transaction of the business relating to the public lands in the Territory and to designate or change the location of any land office for such land district or land region.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 365 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Land Districts and Land Offices ContinuedProvisions of acts Feb. 14, 1902, ch. 17, § 1, 32 Stat. 20; Mar. 2, 1907, ch. 2537, § 1, 34 Stat. 1232, which constituted former section 365 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions, and were repealed by section 7 of Act Oct. 9, 1942, which enacted this section, read as follows: “There shall be two land districts in Alaska, the boundaries of which shall be designated by the President, to be known as the Nome land district and the Fairbanks land district, with the land offices located, respectively, at Nome, Alaska, and Fairbanks, Alaska, and one other land district and land office, the location of which shall be fixed by the President.”
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Citation
43 U.S.C. § 123a
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102