---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 566"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "566"
heading: "Maintenance of public reservations and conveyance to municipality"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/566"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XV — Town Sites, Parks, Playgrounds, and School Sites"
---

# §566. Maintenance of public reservations and conveyance to municipality


The public reservations in such town sites shall be improved and maintained by the town authorities at the expense of the town; and upon the [organization](/usc/43/485a.md?p=g) thereof as municipal corporations the said reservations shall be conveyed to such corporations by the [Secretary](/usc/43/485a.md?p=b) of the Interior, subject to the condition that they shall be used forever for public purposes.


## Source credit

(Apr. 16, 1906, ch. 1631, § 3, 34 Stat. 116.)