43 USC § 1457c - Power of Secretary or designated officer

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title: "43 USC § 1457c - Power of Secretary or designated officer"
title_number: 43
title_name: "PUBLIC LANDS"
section_number: "1457c"
section_name: "Power of Secretary or designated officer"
chapter_number: 31
chapter_name: "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(R.S. § 2478; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)"
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# § 1457c. Power of Secretary or designated officer

The Secretary of the Interior, or such officer as he may designate, is authorized to enforce and carry into execution, by appropriate regulations, every part of the provisions of title 32 of the Revised Statutes not otherwise specially provided for.

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**Source Credit**: (R.S. § 2478; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

### References in Text

Title 32 of the Revised Statutes, referred to in text, was in the original “this Title”, meaning title 32 of the Revised Statutes, consisting of R.S. §§ 2207 to 2490. For complete classification of R.S. §§ 2207 to 2490 to the Code, see Tables.

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to  prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 2478 derived from acts , §§ 1, 4, ; , ; , .

## Executive Documents

### 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. , 15 F.R. 3174, , set out under .

“Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate” substituted for “Commissioner of the General Land Office, under the directions of the Secretary of the Interior” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under .