---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 536"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "536"
heading: "Recording of instruments; furnishing of instruments affecting public domain lands to Secretary of the Interior"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/536"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Forests"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Administration"
---

# §536. Recording of instruments; furnishing of instruments affecting public domain lands to Secretary of the Interior


Copies of all instruments affecting permanent interests in land executed pursuant to sections [532](/usc/16/532.md) to [538](/usc/16/538.md) of this title shall be recorded in each county where the lands are located. Copies of all instruments affecting interests in lands reserved from the public domain shall be furnished to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–657, § 5, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1089.)