Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 30 — Wild Horses and Burros: Protection, Management, and Control
§ 1339. Limitation of authority
Statutory text
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize the Secretary to relocate wild free-roaming horses or burros to areas of the public lands where they do not presently exist.
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 § 10 · 85 Stat. 649
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 1339
(Pub. L. 92–195, § 10, formerly § 9, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 651, renumbered Pub. L. 94–579, title IV, § 404, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2775.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 92–195, § 10, formerly § 9, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 651, renumbered Pub. L. 94–579, title IV, § 404, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2775.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. After the expiration of thirty calendar months following Report to Congress. the date of enactment of this Act, and every twenty-four calendar months thereafter, the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture will submit to Congress a joint report on the administration of this Act, including a summary of enforcement and/or other actions taken thereunder, costs, and such recommendations for legislative or other actions as he might deem appropriate. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture shall consult with respect to the implementation and enforcement of this Act and to the maximum feasible extent coordinate the activities of their respective departments and in the implementation and enforcement of this Act. The Secretaries are authorized and directed to undertake Studies. those studies of the habits of wild free-roaming horses and burros that they may deem necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this Act.
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Credits
(Pub. L. 92–195, § 10, formerly § 9, , 85 Stat. 651, renumbered Pub. L. 94–579, title IV, § 404, , 90 Stat. 2775.)