[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: 43CFR2565.2]



[Page 147-148]

 

                    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.



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    (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.

    (d) Contests and protests. Applications for entry will be subject to 

contest or protest as in other cases.