Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-102
§570 Conveyance of Land to School District
Title 43 › CHAPTER 12 — RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT › SUBCHAPTER XV — TOWN SITES, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND SCHOOL SITES › § 570
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior can transfer up to six acres of unused federal townsite land inside a Reclamation Service project to a school district if the district’s officers apply. The land must be used for school buildings and grounds, and if it stops being used for schools, ownership goes back to the United States.
Full Legal Text
Title 43, §570
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The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, upon application by the proper officers of a school district located wholly or in part within the boundaries of a project of the United States Reclamation Service, to issue patent conveying to such district such unappropriated undisposed of lands, not exceeding six acres in area, within any Government reclamation town site situated within such school district as, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, are necessary for use by said district for school buildings and grounds: Provided, That if any land so conveyed cease entirely to be used for school purposes title thereto shall revert to and revest in the United States.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Executive Documents
Change of Name
The Reclamation Service, established in July 1902, changed to the Bureau of Reclamation on
June 20, 1923, then to the Water and Power Resources Service on Nov. 6, 1979, and then to the Bureau of Reclamation on
May 18, 1981. See 155 Dep’t of the Interior, Departmental Manual 1.1 (2008 repl.); Sec’y Hubert Work, Dep’t of the Interior, Order (
June 20, 1923); Sec’y Cecil D. Andrus, Dep’t of the Interior, Secretarial Order 3042, §§ 1, 4 (Nov. 6, 1979); Sec’y James G. Watt, Dep’t of the Interior, Secretarial Order 3064, §§ 3, 5 (
May 18, 1981).
Transfer of Functions
For
Transfer of Functions
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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Citation
43 U.S.C. § 570
Title 43, Public Lands
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102