Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 504. Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests
Statutory text
The provisions of section 6101 of title 41 shall not apply to any purchase by the Forest Service of forest-tree seed or cones or of forage plant seed when the amount involved does not exceed $10,000, nor to any purchase of forest-tree nursery stock when the amount involved does not exceed $500, whenever, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, such method is in the public interest.
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. 63–131 · 38 Stat. 415
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 504
June 30, 1914, ch. 131, 38 Stat. 429
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 30, 1914, ch. 131, 38 Stat. 429
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
In text, “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5),” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), , 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.
Amendments
1950—Act , increased open market purchase limitation from $500 to $10,000 on forest-tree seed or cones or forage plant seed.
Credits
1914–1950 · 2 acts
- 1914June 30, 1914, ch. 131, 38 Stat. 429
- 1950Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 2, 64 Stat. 83.
Show as published
(June 30, 1914, ch. 131, 38 Stat. 429; Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 2, 64 Stat. 83.)