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48 U.S.C. § 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.
**(b)**
(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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1405c/a&num=0&edition=prelim), 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.
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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.
**(b)**
(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](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1405c/a&num=0&edition=prelim), 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.
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**(a) Establishment of naval defense sea areas and airspace reservations** Nothing in this Act shall affect the right of the President to establish naval defensive sea areas and naval airspace reservations around and over the islands of Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands when deemed necessary for national defense.
**(b) Navigation; flood control; power production** Nothing in this Act shall affect the use, development, improvement, or control by or under the constitutional authority of the United States of the lands transferred by [section 1705 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1705&num=0&edition=prelim), and the navigable waters overlying such lands, for the purposes of navigation or flood control or the production of power, or be construed as the release or relinquishment of any rights of the United States arising under the constitutional authority of Congress to regulate or improve navigation, or to provide for flood control or the production of power.
**(c) Navigational servitude and powers of regulation for purposes of commerce, navigation, national defense, and international affairs** The United States retains all of its navigational servitude and rights in and powers of regulation and control of the lands conveyed by [section 1705 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title48-section1705&num=0&edition=prelim), and the navigable waters overlying such lands, for the constitutional purposes of commerce, navigation, national defense, and international affairs, all of which shall be paramount to, but shall not be deemed to include, proprietary rights of ownership, or the rights of management, administration, leasi
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On and after the date of enactment of this Act, all rents, royalties, or fees from leases, permits, or use rights, issued prior to such date of enactment by the United States with respect to the land conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment made by this Act, and rights of action for damages for trespass occupancies of such lands shall accrue and belong to the appropriate local government under whose jurisdiction the land is located.
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No person shall be denied access to, or any of the benefits accruing from, the lands conveyed by this Act, or by the amendment made by this Act, on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, sex, national origin, or ancestry: Provided, however, That this section shall not be construed in derogation of any of the provisions of the April 17, 1900 cession of Tutuila and Aunuu or the July 16, 1904 cession of the Manu’s Islands, as ratified by the Act of February 20, 1929 (45 Stat. 1253) and the Act of May 22, 1929 (46 Stat. 4).
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TITLE 48—TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS
§ 1545
shall hereafter be made to the Secretary of the
Interior, and the President is authorized to
place all matters pertaining to the government
of the Virgin Islands under the jurisdiction of
the Secretary of the Interior, except matters re-
lating to the judicial branch of said government
which on July 22, 1954 are under the supervision
of the Director of the Administrative Office of
the United States Courts, and the matters relat-
ing to the United States Attorney and the
United States Marshal which on July 22, 1954 are
under the supervision of the Attorney General.
(July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 30, 68 Stat. 509.)
§ 1545. Lease and sale of public property; convey-
ance of title in certain lands to the govern-
ment of Virgin Islands
(a) The Secretary of the Interior shall be au-
thorized 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 pur-
poses.
(b)(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 Inte-
rior within one hundred and twenty days after
October 5, 1974, is hereby conveyed to such gov-
ernment. The conveyance effected by the pre-
ceding sentence shall not apply to that land and
other property which on October 5, 1974, is ad-
ministered 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
propert
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