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Code · U.S. Code · Title 48 - TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS · CHAPTER 12— VIRGIN ISLANDS [1954] · SUBCHAPTER I— GENERAL PROVISIONS · § 1545

§ 1545. Lease and sale of public property; conveyance of title in certain lands to the government of Virgin Islands

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(a)The Secretary of the Interior shall be authorized to lease or to sell upon such terms as he may deem advantageous to the Government of the United States any property of the United States under his administrative supervision in the Virgin Islands not needed for public purposes.
(1)All right, title, and interest of the United States in the property placed under the control of the government of the Virgin Islands by section 1405c(a) of this title, not reserved to the United States by the Secretary of the Interior within one hundred and twenty days after October 5, 1974, is hereby conveyed to such government. The conveyance effected by the preceding sentence shall not apply to that land and other property which on October 5, 1974, is administered by the Secretary of the Interior as part of the National Park System and such lands and other property shall be retained by the United States.
(2)Subject to valid existing rights, title to all property in the Virgin Islands which may have been acquired by the United States from Denmark under the Convention entered into August 16, 1916, not reserved or retained by the United States in accordance with the provisions of Public Law 93–435 (88 Stat. 1210) is hereby transferred to the Virgin Islands government.
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 31, 68 Stat. 510; Pub. L. 93–435, § 3, Oct. 5, 1974, 88 Stat. 1211; Pub. L. 96–205, title IV, § 401(a), Mar. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 88.)
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  • Public Law 93–435
  • 88 Stat. 1210
  • July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 31
  • 68 Stat. 510
  • Pub. L. 93–435, § 3
  • 88 Stat. 1211
  • Pub. L. 96–205, title IV, § 401(a)
  • 94 Stat. 88
  • Pub. L. 93–435
  • Pub. L. 96–205
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§ 1545
Lease and sale of public property; conveyance of title in certain lands to the government of Virgin Islands
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Pub. L.Public Law 93–435
Stat.88 Stat. 1210
ActJuly 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 31
Stat.68 Stat. 510
Pub. L.Pub. L. 93–435, § 3
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