[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: 43CFR1810.3]

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                    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. 1810.3  Effect of laches; authority to bind government.

    (a) The authority of the United States to enforce a public right or 
protect a public interest is not vitiated or lost by acquiescence of its 
officers or agents, or by their laches, neglect of duty, failure to act, 
or delays in the performance of their duties.
    (b) The United States is not bound or estopped by the acts of its 
officers or agents when they enter into an arrangement or agreement to 
do or cause to be done what the law does not sanction or permit.
    (c) Reliance upon information or opinion of any officer, agent or 
employee or on records maintained by land offices cannot operate to vest 
any right not authorized by law.