[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: 43CFR2565.2]

[Page 151-152]
 
                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 2560_ALASKA OCCUPANCY AND USE--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart 2565_Non-native Townsites
 
Sec. 2565.2  Application; fees; contests and protests.

    (a) Filing of application; publication and posting; submission of 
proof. The trustee will file his application and notice of intention to 
make proof, and thereupon the authorizing officer will issue the usual 
notice of making proof, to be posted and published at the trustee's 
expense, for the time and in the manner as in other cases provided, and 
proof must be made showing occupancy of the tract, number of inhabitants 
thereon, character of the land, extent, value, and character of 
improvements, and that the townsite does not contain any land occupied 
by the United States for school or other purposes or land occupied under 
any existing valid claim initiated under Russian rule.
    (b) Application service fee. The trustee's application shall be 
accompanied by $10 application service fee which shall not be 
returnable.
    (c) Expense money to be advanced by lot occupants. The occupants 
will advance a sufficient amount of money to pay for the land and the 
expenses incident to the entry to be refunded to them when realized from 
lot assessments.

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    (d) Contests and protests. Applications for entry will be subject to 
contest or protest as in other cases.