Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 2 — National Forests
§ 521. Lands acquired to be reserved, held, and administered as national forest lands; designation
Statutory text
Subject to the provisions of section 519 of this title the lands acquired under this Act shall be permanently reserved, held, and administered as national forest lands under the provisions of section 471 1 of this title and acts supplemental to and amendatory thereof. And the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time divide the lands acquired under this Act into such specific national forests and so designate the same as he may deem best for administrative purposes.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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 § 11 · 36 Stat. 961
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 521
(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 11, 36 Stat. 963.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 11, 36 Stat. 963.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec.11. That, subject to the provisions of the last preceding section, the lands acquired under this Act shall be permanently Lands reserved permanently as national forests. reserved, held, and administered as national forest lands under the provisions of section twenty-four of the Act Vol. 26, p. 1103. approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one (volume twenty-six, Statutes at Large, page eleven hundred and three), and Acts supplemental to and amendatory thereof. And the Secretary of Agriculture may from tinte to time divide Designation of divisions. the lands acquired under this Act into such specific national forests and so designate the same as he may deem best for administrative purposes.
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 519, 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.
Section 471 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to section 24 of act Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1103, and was repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), , 90 Stat. 2792.
Credits
(Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 11, 36 Stat. 963.)