Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 554b. Medical care for employees engaged in hazardous work; notification and transportation of employees
Statutory text
Appropriations for the Forest Service shall be available for medical supplies and services and other assistance necessary for the immediate relief of artisans, laborers, and other employees engaged in any hazardous work under the Forest Service, and for expenses of notifying employees of the death or serious illness of close relatives and, in such cases where no public transportation is available, for transporting the employees to a point where public transportation is available.
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. 78–412 · 58 Stat. 734
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 554b
Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 202, 58 Stat. 736
Source evidence
Code source credit
Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 202, 58 Stat. 736Pub. L. 85–464 § 4 · 72 Stat. 216
Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 554b
Pub. L. 85–464 made appropriations available for expenses of notifying employees of the death or serious illness of close relatives, and for transportation of employees
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 85–464 made appropriations available for expenses of notifying employees of the death or serious illness of close relatives, and for transportation of employees.Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. Section 202 of the Act of September 21, 1944 (16 U. S. C. 554b), Notification and transportation of employees. 58 Stat. 736. is hereby amended to read as follows: “Appropriations for the Forest Service shall be available for medical supplies and services and other assistance necessary for the immediate relief of artisans, laborers, and other employees engaged in any hazardous work under the Forest Service, and for expenses of notifying employees of the death or serious illness of close relatives and, in such cases where no public transportation is available, for transporting the employees to a point where public transportation is available.”
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.
Amendments
1958—Pub. L. 85–464 made appropriations available for expenses of notifying employees of the death or serious illness of close relatives, and for transportation of employees.
Credits
1944–1958 · 2 acts
- 1944Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 202, 58 Stat. 736
- 1958Pub. L. 85–464, § 4, , 72 Stat. 217.
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(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 202, 58 Stat. 736; Pub. L. 85–464, § 4, , 72 Stat. 217.)