---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1612"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1612"
heading: "Surveys"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1612"
units:
  - "Chapter 33 — Alaska Native Claims Settlement"
---

# §1612. Surveys

- (a) **Areas for conveyance to Village Corporations; monumentation of exterior boundaries; meanderable water boundaries exempt from requirement; land occupied as primary place of residence or business, or for other purposes and other patentable lands as subject to survey—** The [Secretary](/usc/43/1602.md?p=a) shall [survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) the areas selected or designated for conveyance to [Village Corporations](/usc/43/1602.md?p=j) pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. He shall monument only exterior boundaries of the selected or designated areas at angle points and at intervals of approximately two miles on straight lines. No ground [survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) or monumentation will be required along meanderable water boundaries. He shall [survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) within the areas selected or designated land occupied as a primary place of residence, as a primary place of business, and for other purposes, and any other land to be patented under this chapter.
- (b) **Withdrawals, selections, and conveyances pursuant to chapter: current plats of surveys or protraction diagrams; conformity to Land Survey System—** All withdrawals, selections, and conveyances pursuant to this chapter shall be as shown on current plats of [survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) or protraction diagrams of the Bureau of Land Management, or protraction diagrams of the Bureau of the [State](/usc/43/1602.md?p=f) where protraction diagrams of the Bureau of Land Management are not available, and shall conform as nearly as practicable to the United States Land [Survey](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) System.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–203, § 13, Dec. 18, 1971, 85 Stat. 702.)