Laws: Cases and Codes : U.S. Code : Title 43 : Section 1612


   
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 1612. Surveys

    (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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