[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 43, Volume 2]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

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]