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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 53. Cutting and removal of timber

Statutory text

All timber must be cut and removed from the Yosemite National Park under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and any damage which may result to the roads or any part of the park in consequence of the cutting and removal of the timber from the reservation shall be borne by the owners of the patented lands, and bond satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior must be given for the payment of such damages, if any, as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 62–74 § 3 · 37 Stat. 80

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 53

    (Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 3, 37 Stat. 81.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 3, 37 Stat. 81.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That all timber must be cut and removed from the park Regulations for cutting and removal. under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and any damage which may result to the roads or any part of the park in consequence of the cutting and removal of the timber from the reservation shall be borne by the owners of the patented lands, and bond satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior must be given for the payment of such damages, if any, as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Interior.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Apr. 9, 1912, ch. 74, § 3, 37 Stat. 81.)

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