Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 30 — Wild Horses and Burros: Protection, Management, and Control
§ 1335. Recovery rights
Statutory text
A person claiming ownership of a horse or burro on the public lands shall be entitled to recover it only if recovery is permissible under the branding and estray laws of the State in which the animal is found.
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.
Pub. L. 92–195 § 5 · 85 Stat. 649
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 1335
(Pub. L. 92–195, § 5, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 650.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–195, § 5, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 650.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. A person claiming ownership of a horse or burro on the public lands shall be entitled to recover it only if recovery is permissible under the branding and estray laws of the State in which the animal is found.
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