Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 554. Forest supervisors and rangers
Statutory text
Forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in which the national forests, respectively, are situated.
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. 58–288 § 3 · 33 Stat. 628
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 554
(Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 3, 33 Stat. 628.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 3, 33 Stat. 628.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That forest supervisors and rangers shall be selected, when practicable, from qualified citizens of the States or Territories in which the said reserves, respectively, are situated.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Codification
“National forests” substituted in text for “reserves” on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.
Credits
(Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 3, 33 Stat. 628.)