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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.

  1. 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. 736

  2. Pub. 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
  1. 1944Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 202, 58 Stat. 736
  2. 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.)

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