[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: 43CFR2545.1]



[Page 133]

 

                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR

 

    CHAPTER II--BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

 

PART 2540_COLOR-OF-TITLE AND OMITTED LANDS--Table of Contents

 

           Subpart 2545_Erroneously Meandered Lands: Wisconsin

 

Sec.  2545.1  Qualifications of applicants.



    Source: 35 FR 9594, June 13, 1970, unless otherwise noted.





    (a) To qualify under the Act of 1954, a person, or his predecessors 

in interest, (1) must have been issued, prior to January 21, 1953, a 

patent for lands lying along the meander line as originally determined, 

and (2) must have held in good faith and in peaceful, adverse possession 

since the date of issuance of said patent adjoining public lands lying 

between the original meander line and the resurveyed meander line.

    (b) To qualify under the Act of 1925, a person must either (1) be 

the owner in good faith of land, acquired prior to February 27, 1925, 

shown by the official public land surveys to be bounded in whole or in 

part by such public lands or (2) be a citizen of the United States who, 

in good faith under color of title or claiming as a riparian owner, had, 

prior to February 27, 1925, placed valuable improvements upon or reduced 

to cultivation any of such public lands.