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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 2 — National Forests

§ 471a. Forest reserves in New Mexico and Arizona restricted

Statutory text

No forest reservation shall be created, nor shall any additions be made to one created prior to , within the limits of the States of New Mexico and Arizona except by Act of Congress.

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. Pub. L. 69–587 · 44 Stat. 745

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 471a

    (June 15, 1926, ch. 587, 44 Stat. 745.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 15, 1926, ch. 587, 44 Stat. 745.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Forest reservation, referred to in text, probably should be “national forest”. See act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.

Credits

(June 15, 1926, ch. 587, 44 Stat. 745.)

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