---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 1441"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "1441"
heading: "Lease of contiguous public lands for public airports; authority of Secretary of the Interior"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/1441"
units:
  - "Chapter 30 — Administration of Public Lands"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Public Airports"
---

# §1441. Lease of contiguous public lands for public airports; authority of Secretary of the Interior


The [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under such regulations as he may prescribe, to [lease](/usc/43/1331.md?p=c) for use as a public airport any contiguous [public lands](/usc/43/155.md?p=1), unreserved and unappropriated, not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres in area, subject to valid rights in such lands under the public-land laws.


## Source credit

(May 24, 1928, ch. 728, § 1, 45 Stat. 728; Aug. 16, 1941, ch. 354, 55 Stat. 621.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was previously classified to section 211 of former Title 49, Transportation.

### Amendments

1941—Act Aug. 16, 1941, increased area of land authorized for lease as airport from six hundred and forty acres to two thousand five hundred and sixty acres.