Title 43 — Public LandsRelease 119-73not60
§866 Exchange of Cut Over Land in Montana
Title 43 › Chapter 20— RESERVATIONS AND GRANTS TO STATES FOR PUBLIC PURPOSES › § 866
Summary
Montana may swap school timberlands granted before February 14, 1923, where timber was removed under state law, for privately owned lands of like kind and equal value. Swaps must follow rules the state legislature makes, and the new land keeps the same limits to allow compact holdings and reforest economically, despite the enabling act.
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Title 43, §866
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Tracts of timbered lands prior to February 14, 1923, granted to the State of Montana for educational purposes, from which the timber has been cut or removed pursuant to State laws, may, under such rules and regulations as the legislature of said State shall prescribe, be exchanged for other lands of like character and approximately of equal value, in private ownership, which exchanged land shall be subject to the same requirements and limitations to the end that the State may acquire holdings in reasonably compact form and reforesting be undertaken in an economic manner, anything in the enabling act of said State to the contrary notwithstanding.
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The enabling act of Montana, referred to in text, is act Feb. 22, 1889, ch. 180, 25 Stat. 676. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
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43 U.S.C. § 866
Title 43 — Public Lands
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60