Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-110

§1612 Surveys

Title 43 › CHAPTER 33 — ALASKA NATIVE CLAIMS SETTLEMENT › § 1612

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must survey lands that are chosen to be given to Village Corporations. He will mark only the outside borders at corner points and about every two miles along straight lines. No ground survey or markers are needed along winding water edges. He must also survey land inside those areas that is used as a main home, a main business, or for other uses, and any land that will get a patent under the chapter. All withdrawals, selections, and conveyances must match current Bureau of Land Management plats or protraction diagrams. If BLM diagrams are not available, the State bureau’s protraction diagrams may be used. These surveys should follow the United States Land Survey System as closely as possible.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §1612

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(a)Areas for conveyance to Village Corporations; monumentation of exterior boundaries; meanderable water boundaries exempt from requirement; land occupied as primary place of residence or business, or for other purposes and other patentable lands as subject to survey

The Secretary shall survey the areas selected or designated for conveyance to Village Corporations pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. He shall monument only exterior boundaries of the selected or designated areas at angle points and at intervals of approximately two miles on straight lines. No ground survey or monumentation will be required along meanderable water boundaries. He shall survey within the areas selected or designated land occupied as a primary place of residence, as a primary place of business, and for other purposes, and any other land to be patented under this chapter.

(b)Withdrawals, selections, and conveyances pursuant to chapter: current plats of surveys or protraction diagrams; conformity to Land Survey System

All withdrawals, selections, and conveyances pursuant to this chapter shall be as shown on current plats of survey or protraction diagrams of the Bureau of Land Management, or protraction diagrams of the Bureau of the State where protraction diagrams of the Bureau of Land Management are not available, and shall conform as nearly as practicable to the United States Land Survey System.

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Citation

43 U.S.C. § 1612

Title 43, Public Lands

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110