[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: 43CFR2531.3]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2530_INDIAN ALLOTMENTS--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart 2531_Applications, Generally
 
Sec. 2531.3  Effect of application.

    (a) Where an allotment application under the fourth section of the 
Act of February 8, 1887, as amended, 25 U.S.C. 334 (is not accompanied 
by the requisite certificate from the Bureau of Indian Affairs showing 
the applicant to be eligible for an allotment, and the applicant is 
given time to furnish such certificate, the application does not 
segregate the land, and other applications therefor may be received and 
held to await final action on the allotment application.
    (b) Where an allotment application is approved by the authorized 
officer, it operates as a segregation of the land, and subsequent 
application for the same land will be rejected.

[37 FR 23185, Oct. 31, 1972]