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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management

§ 554c. Care of employees’ graves

Statutory text

Appropriations for the Forest Service shall be available within such limitations as may be prescribed therein for the expenses of properly caring for the graves of persons who have lost their lives as a result of fighting fires while employed by the Forest Service.

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. § 554c

    (Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 206, 58 Stat. 736.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 206, 58 Stat. 736.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.

Credits

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 206, 58 Stat. 736.)

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