Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 481. Use of waters
Statutory text
All waters within the boundaries of national forests may be used for domestic, mining, milling, or irrigation purposes, under the laws of the State wherein such national forests are situated, or under the laws of the United States and the rules and regulations established thereunder.
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. 55–2 § 1 · 30 Stat. 11
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 481
(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 36.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 36.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
“National forests” substituted in text for “reservations” and “forest reservations” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.
Credits
(June 4, 1897, ch. 2, § 1, 30 Stat. 36.)