Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 517a. Payment of awards in condemnation proceedings
Statutory text
In condemnation proceedings, heretofore or hereafter prosecuted, for the acquisition of lands under this Act, in which a decree is entered vesting title thereto in the United States upon payment of the award into the registry of the court, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make such payment when advised by the Attorney General that the proceedings and the decree are regular.
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. 61–186 § 8 · 36 Stat. 961
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 517a
Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 8 (part), 36 Stat. 962
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 8 (part), 36 Stat. 962Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec.8. That the Secretary of Agriculture may do all things necessary to secure the safe title Title, etc. in the United States to the lands to be acquired under this Act, but no payment shall be made for any such lands until the title shall be satisfactory to the Attorney-General and shall be vested in the United States.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, means act Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, 36 Stat. 961, popularly known as the Weeks Law, which enacted this section, former sections 513 and 514 of this title, and sections 515 to 517, 518, 519, 521, 552, and 563 of this title and amended sections 480 and 500 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 552 of this title and Tables.
Amendments
1926—Act , amended act , constituting section 517 of this title, by inserting text of this section as a proviso thereof.
Credits
1911–1926 · 2 acts
- 1911Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 8 (part), 36 Stat. 962
- 1926Dec. 11, 1926, ch. 5, 44 Stat. 919.
Show as published
(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 8 (part), 36 Stat. 962; Dec. 11, 1926, ch. 5, 44 Stat. 919.)