TITLE 58

PUBLIC LANDS

CHAPTER 1

DEPARTMENT OF LANDS

58-101.  State land board — Constitution — Department of lands created. The governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state controller and superintendent of public instruction being constituted a state board of land commissioners by section 7 of article 9, of the Constitution of the state, as such board, have the direction, control and disposition of the public lands of the state. The board shall exercise the said constitutional functions through the instrumentality of a department of lands which is hereby created.

History:

[(58-101) 1895, p. 215, ch. 2, sec. 5; reen. 1899, p. 282, ch. 2, sec. 5; 1905, p. 131, sec. 30; 1905, p. 131, sec. 1; compiled R.C., sec. 1558; compiled and reen. C.L., sec. 1558; am. 1919, ch. 81, sec. 1, p. 289; C.S., sec. 2866; I.C.A., sec. 56-101; am. 1974, ch. 17, sec. 39, p. 308; am. 1994, ch. 180, sec. 118, p. 501.]