---
kind: "unit"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
key: "ch28"
level: "chapter"
label: "Chapter 28"
heading: "Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Public Lands"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/ch28"
sections_count: 49
---

# Chapter 28 — Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Public Lands

Title 43 — Public Lands

## Contents

- [Subchapter I — Patents for Private Land Claims](/usc/43/ch28-schI.md)
- [Subchapter II — Disposition of Suspended Entries and Claims; In­valid and Defective Claims and Patents Therefor](/usc/43/ch28-schII.md)
- [Subchapter III — Sales of Isolated Tracts](/usc/43/ch28-schIII.md)
- [Subchapter IV — Timber Culture](/usc/43/ch28-schIV.md)
- [Subchapter V — Oregon and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant Lands](/usc/43/ch28-schV.md)
- [Subchapter VI — Disposal of Materials on Public Lands](/usc/43/ch28-schVI.md)
- [Subchapter VII — Evidences of Title](/usc/43/ch28-schVII.md)
- [Subchapter VIII — Indian Lands](/usc/43/ch28-schVIII.md)
- [Subchapter IX — Enforcement of Provisions](/usc/43/ch28-schIX.md)
- [Subchapter X — Oaths in Certain Land Matters](/usc/43/ch28-schX.md)
- [Subchapter XI — Wisconsin River and Lake Land Titles](/usc/43/ch28-schXI.md)
- [Subchapter XII — Moving Expenses Resulting from Acquisition of Lands by Secretary of the Interior](/usc/43/ch28-schXII.md)
- [Subchapter XIII — State Control of Noxious Plants on Government Lands](/usc/43/ch28-schXIII.md)