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Title 43 - PUBLIC LANDSChapter 30 - ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC LANDS
Subchapter VIII - PUBLIC AIRPORTS
Section 1441 - Lease of contiguous public lands for public airports; authority of Secretary of the Interior

43 U.S.C. § 1441

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Current through P.L. 118-64 (published on www.congress.gov on 05/24/2024), except for [P. L. 118-63]
Section 1441 - Lease of contiguous public lands for public airports; authority of Secretary of the Interior

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, to lease for use as a public airport any contiguous public lands, unreserved and unappropriated, not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in area, subject to valid rights in such lands under the public-land laws.

43 U.S.C. § 1441

May 24, 1928, ch. 728, §1, 45 Stat. 728; Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 354, 55 Stat. 621.

EDITORIAL NOTES

CODIFICATIONSection was previously classified to section 211 of former Title 49, Transportation.

AMENDMENTS1941-Act Aug. 16, 1941, increased area of land authorized for lease as airport from six hundred and forty acres to two thousand five hundred and sixty acres.