---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 573"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "573"
heading: "Expenses of appraisement and sale; rules and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/573"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Reclamation and Irrigation of Lands by Federal Government"
  - "Subchapter XV — Town Sites, Parks, Playgrounds, and School Sites"
---

# §573. Expenses of appraisement and sale; rules and regulations


Reclamation funds are authorized to be appropriated for use in defraying the necessary expenses of appraisement and sale of the lands authorized to be sold under [section 571 of this title](/usc/43/571.md), and the [Secretary](/usc/43/485a.md?p=b) of the Interior is authorized to perform any and all acts and to make such rules and regulations as, in his opinion, may be necessary and proper for carrying out the purposes of sections [571](/usc/43/571.md) to 573 of this title.


## Source credit

(Mar. 2, 1929, ch. 541, § 3, 45 Stat. 1522.)