43 USC § 566 - Maintenance of public reservations and conveyance to municipality

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identifier: "/us/usc/t43/s566"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "43 USC § 566 - Maintenance of public reservations and conveyance to municipality"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "566"
section_name: "Maintenance of public reservations and conveyance to municipality"
chapter_number: 12
chapter_name: "RECLAMATION AND IRRIGATION OF LANDS BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT"
subchapter_number: "XV"
subchapter_name: "TOWN SITES, PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, AND SCHOOL SITES"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Apr. 16, 1906, ch. 1631, § 3, 34 Stat. 116.)"
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# § 566. Maintenance of public reservations and conveyance to municipality

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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**Source Credit**: (Apr. 16, 1906, ch. 1631, § 3, 34 Stat. 116.)