[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 43, Volume 2] [Revised as of October 1, 2004] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 43CFR1810.1] [Page 31-32] TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PART 1810_INTRODUCTION AND GENERAL GUIDANCE--Table of Contents Subpart 1810_General Rules Sec. 1810.1 Rules of construction; words and phrases. Subpart 1810_General Rules Sec. 1810.1 Rules of construction; words and phrases. 1810.2 Communications by mail; when mailing requirements are met. 1810.3 Effect of laches; authority to bind government. 1810.4 Information required by forms. Subpart 1812_Qualifications of Practitioners 1812.1 General. 1812.1-1 Regulations governing practice before the Department. 1812.1-2 Inquiries. Subpart 1815_Disaster Relief 1815.0-3 Authority. 1815.0-5 Definitions. 1815.1 Timber sale contracts. [[Page 32]] 1815.1-1 Relief granted. 1815.1-2 Applications. Authority: 43 U.S.C. 1740. Source: 35 FR 9513, June 13, 1970, unless otherwise noted. Except where the context of the regulation or of the Act of the Congress on which it is based, indicates otherwise, when used in the regulations of this chapter: (a) Words importing the singular include and apply to the plural also; (b) Words importing the plural include the singular; (c) Words importing the masculine gender include the feminine as well; (d) Words used in the present tense include the future as well as the present; (e) The words person and whoever include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals; (f) Officer and authorized officer include any person authorized by law or by lawful delegation of authority to perform the duties described; (g) Signature or subscription includes a mark when the person making the same intended it as such; (h) Oath includes affirmation, and sworn includes affirmed; (i) Writing includes printing and typewriting as well as holographs, and copies include all types of reproductions on paper, including photographs, multigraphs, mimeographs and manifolds; (j) The word company or association, when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words successors and assigns of such company or association, in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed.