---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 14"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "14"
heading: "Returns relative to lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/14"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — Bureau of Land Management"
---

# §14. Returns relative to lands


All returns relative to the public lands shall be made to the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior or such officer as he may designate.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 456; July 31, 1894, ch. 174, § 7, 28 Stat. 207; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, § 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 456 derived from act Apr. 25, 1812, ch. 68, § 9, 2 Stat. 717.

### Executive Documents

### Transfer of Functions

For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out under section 1451 of this title.

“Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate” substituted for “Commissioner of the General Land Office” on authority of section 403 of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946. See note set out under section 1 of this title.