United States Code (Last Updated: May 24, 2014) |
Title 25. INDIANS |
Chapter 14. MISCELLANEOUS |
SubChapter VII. REINDEER INDUSTRY |
§ 500b. Filing claim of title to reindeer by nonnatives
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All persons, other than natives of Alaska, who upon
September 1, 1937 , claim title to any Alaskan reindeer shall, within one year afterSeptember 1, 1937 , file in Alaska, with the duly authorized agent or agents of the Secretary of the Interior, declarations of their ownership. Similar declarations concerning Alaskan reindeer acquired by any person not a native of Alaska by purchase or by gift at any time afterSeptember 1, 1937 , shall be filed as aforesaid within thirty days after the date of such acquisition. Records of all declarations thus filed shall be made and kept open to public inspection in Alaska. If any owner of Alaskan reindeer, to whom the foregoing provisions of this section are applicable, shall fail to file the required declaration within the stated period, he shall be barred thereafter from asserting his claim of title.
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 250b of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.