Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 502. Rental of property for Forest Service; forage, care, and housing of animals; storage of vehicles and other equipment; pack stock; loss, damage, or destruction of horses, vehicles, and other equipment
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe:
To hire or rent property from employees of the Forest Service for the use of that Service whenever the public interest will be promoted thereby.
To provide forage, care, and housing for animals, and storage for vehicles and other equipment obtained by the Forest Service for the use of that service from employees.
To contract with public and private agencies, corporations, firms, associations, or individuals to train, provide forage, care, and housing for, and to work pack stock owned and held in reserve by the Forest Service for fire emergency purposes and as all or part of the consideration therefor to permit such contractors to use the stock for their own purposes during the periods of nonuse by the Forest Service.
To reimburse owners for loss, damage, or destruction of horses, vehicles, and other equipment obtained by the Forest Service for the use of that service from employees or other private owners: Provided, That payments or reimbursements herein authorized may be made from the applicable appropriations for the Forest Service: And provided further, That except for fire fighting emergencies no reimbursement herein authorized shall be made in an amount in excess of $50 to persons who were employees of the Forest Service prior to the time the equipment was obtained or $2,500 in any other case, unless the equipment was made available under a written agreement, contract, or lease.
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. 62–145 § 1 · 37 Stat. 120
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 502
Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 843
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 843Public Law not identified
Added · 16 U.S.C. § 502(a)(c)
Subsecs. (a) to (c). Act Jan. 31, 1931, added subsecs. (a) to (c)
Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsecs. (a) to (c). Act Jan. 31, 1931, added subsecs. (a) to (c).Pub. L. 85–464 § 1 · 72 Stat. 216
Added · 16 U.S.C. § 502(c); 16 U.S.C. § 502(d)
Pub. L. 85–464 added subsec. (c)
Redesignated · 16 U.S.C. § 502(c); 16 U.S.C. § 502(d)
Pub. L. 85–464 redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d) and authorized reimbursement in an amount not in excess of $2,500 in any case where the person is not an employee of the Forest Service at the time the equipment is obtained
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 85–464 added subsec. (c), redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d) and authorized reimbursement in an amount not in excess of $2,500 in any case where the person is not an employee of the Forest Service at the time the equipment is obtained.Pub. L. 89–270 · 79 Stat. 991
Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 502(a)
Pub. L. 89–270 required the transmittal of statement of rentals during the fiscal year to congressional committees and omitted restriction against use of hired or rented property by the employee from whom hired or rented and $3,000 limitation on aggregate amount of payment in any one year to permanent employees, exclusive of fire emergency obligations
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89–270 required the transmittal of statement of rentals during the fiscal year to congressional committees and omitted restriction against use of hired or rented property by the employee from whom hired or rented and $3,000 limitation on aggregate amount of payment in any one year to permanent employees, exclusive of fire emergency obligations.Congressional Reports Elimination Act of 1982
Pub. L. 97–375 title I § 103(b) · 96 Stat. 1819
Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 502(a)
Pub. L. 97–375 struck out provision that the Secretary transmit to Congress a statement of rentals under the authority of this paragraph as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–375 struck out provision that the Secretary transmit to Congress a statement of rentals under the authority of this paragraph as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Paragraph (a) of the Act of March 4, 1913, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen” (16 U.S.C. 502; 37 Stat. 843), is amended by striking out the second sentence.
1 of 6 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 4 partial · 1 unresolved
Editorial Notes
Amendments1931–1982 · 4 rounds
1982
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 97–375 struck out provision that the Secretary transmit to Congress a statement of rentals under the authority of this paragraph as soon as practicable after the end of each fiscal year.
1965
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 89–270 required the transmittal of statement of rentals during the fiscal year to congressional committees and omitted restriction against use of hired or rented property by the employee from whom hired or rented and $3,000 limitation on aggregate amount of payment in any one year to permanent employees, exclusive of fire emergency obligations.
1958
Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 85–464 added subsec. (c), redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d) and authorized reimbursement in an amount not in excess of $2,500 in any case where the person is not an employee of the Forest Service at the time the equipment is obtained.
1931
Act , substituted “The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, under such regulations as he may prescribe” for prior provision which authorized Secretary to reimburse owners of private property lost or damaged while being used for necessary official business.
Subsecs. (a) to (c). Act , added subsecs. (a) to (c).
Credits
1913–1982 · 5 acts
- 1913Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 843
- 1931Jan. 31, 1931, ch. 76, 46 Stat. 1052
- 1958Pub. L. 85–464, § 1, , 72 Stat. 216
- 1965Pub. L. 89–270, , 79 Stat. 991
- 1982Pub. L. 97–375, title I, § 103(b), , 96 Stat. 1819.
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(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 843; Jan. 31, 1931, ch. 76, 46 Stat. 1052; Pub. L. 85–464, § 1, , 72 Stat. 216; Pub. L. 89–270, , 79 Stat. 991; Pub. L. 97–375, title I, § 103(b), , 96 Stat. 1819.)