Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60
§566 Maintenance of Public Reservations and Conveyance to Municipality
Title 43 › Chapter 12— RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › Subchapter XV— TOWN SITES, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND SCHOOL SITES › § 566
Summary
Town officials must improve and keep up public reservation land, paying the costs from town funds. When the town becomes an official city or town government, the Secretary of the Interior must transfer those reservation lands to that government, with the rule that they must be kept for public use forever.
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Title 43, §566
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The public reservations in such town sites shall be improved and maintained by the town authorities at the expense of the town; and upon the organization thereof as municipal corporations the said reservations shall be conveyed to such corporations by the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the condition that they shall be used forever for public purposes.
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43 U.S.C. § 566
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60