Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 167. Removal of timber
Statutory text
All timber on Government lands in the park must be cut and removed under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and any damage which may result to the roads or any part of the park or the national forests in consequence of the cutting and removal of the timber therefrom shall be borne by the owners of the patented lands, and bonds satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, jointly, must be given for the payment of such damages, if any, as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior so far as the same relates to lands within a national park and by the Secretary of Agriculture where the same relates to lands in the national forests. The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall jointly report to Congress in detail the factors upon which valuations were made.
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. 64–164 § 3 · 39 Stat. 233
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 167
(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 164, § 3, 39 Stat. 1122.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 164, § 3, 39 Stat. 1122.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That the work shall be begun within one year after the approval Time for construction. of this Act, and within ninety days after the approval of this Act the said railway company shall furnish a bond to the satisfaction of the Secretary of War conditioned for the completion of the said railroad and other works mentioned herein across said reservation within two years after the approval of the said bond by the Secretary of War.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Mar. 3, 1917, ch. 164, § 3, 39 Stat. 1122.)