§ 1332. Definitions

Footnotes

1. 1 So in original. The word “and” probably should not appear.
2. 2 So in original. The period probably should be “; and”.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1971

   Pub. L. 92–195 § 2 · 85 Stat. 649

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 1332

   Pub. L. 92–195, § 2, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 649

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 92–195, § 2, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 649

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 2. As used in this Act— Definitions. (a) “Secretary” means the Secretary of the Interior when used in connection with public lands administered by him through the Bureau of Land Management and the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with public lands administered by him through the Forest Service; (b) “wild free-roaming horses and burros” means all unbranded and unclaimed horses and burros on public lands of the United States; (c) “range” means the amount of land necessary to sustain an existing herd or herds of wild free-roaming horses and burros, which does not exceed their known territorial limits, and which is devoted principally but not necessarily exclusively to their welfare in keeping with the multiple-use management concept for the public lands; (d) “herd” means one or more stallions and his mares; and (e) “public lands” means any lands administered by the Secretary of the Interior through the Bureau of Land Management or by the Secretary of Agriculture through the Forest Service.

2. 1978

   Public Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978

   Pub. L. 95–514 § 14(b) · 92 Stat. 1803

   Added · 16 U.S.C. § 1332(f)

   Pub. L. 95–514 added subsec. (f)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 95–514 added subsec. (f).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (b) A new subsection (f) is added to section 2 of the Act of December 15, 1971, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1332) to read as follows: “(f) ‘excess animals’ means wild free-roaming horses or burros (1) which have been removed from an area by the Secretary pursuant to applicable law or, (2) which must be removed from an area in order to preserve and maintain a thriving natural ecological balance and multiple-use relationship in that area.”

2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision