Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 559. Arrests by employees of Forest Service for violations of laws and regulations
Statutory text
All persons employed in the Forest Service of the United States shall have authority to make arrests for the violation of the laws and regulations relating to the national forests, and any person so arrested shall be taken before the nearest United States magistrate judge, within whose jurisdiction the forest is located, for trial; and upon sworn information by any competent person any United States magistrate judge in the proper jurisdiction shall issue process for the arrest of any person charged with the violation of said laws and regulations; but nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the arrest by any officer of the United States, without process, of any person taken in the act of violating said laws and regulations.
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. 58–1405 · 33 Stat. 227
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 559
Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. 873
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. 873Pub. L. 91–383 § 10(a)(2) · 84 Stat. 825
Added · 16 U.S.C. § 559
Pub. L. 91–383, § 10(a)(2), as added Pub. L. 94–458
Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 559
Pub. L. 91–383, § 10(a)(2), as struck out “and national parks” after “national forests” and “or national park” after “jurisdiction the forest”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 91–383, § 10(a)(2), as added Pub. L. 94–458, struck out “and national parks” after “national forests” and “or national park” after “jurisdiction the forest”.
0 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 3 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
“Forest Service of the United States” substituted for “forest reserve of the United States” as the probable intent of Congress in that the federal forest reserves were transferred from Department of the Interior to Department of Agriculture by act Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 1, 33 Stat. 628, and administration of forest reserves was placed in Forest Service which was created by that act.
Words “national forests” and “forest” substituted for “forest reserves” and “reservation”, respectively, on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.
That part of act , which related to arrests by employees of the National Park Service for violations of laws and regulations, was (prior to the amendment made by Pub. L 94–458) classified to section 10 of this title.
Amendments
1976—Pub. L. 91–383, § 10(a)(2), as added Pub. L. 94–458, struck out “and national parks” after “national forests” and “or national park” after “jurisdiction the forest”.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“United States magistrate judge” substituted for “United States magistrate” wherever appearing in text pursuant to section 321 of Pub. L. 101–650, set out as a note under section 631 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure. Previously, “United States magistrate” substituted for “United States commissioner” pursuant to Pub. L. 90–578. See chapter 43 (§ 631 et seq.) of Title 28.
Credits
1905–1990 · 4 acts
- 1905Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. 873
- 1968Pub. L. 90–578, title IV, § 402(b)(2), , 82 Stat. 1118
- 1970Pub. L. 91–383, § 10(a)(2), , as added Pub. L. 94–458, § 2, , 90 Stat. 1941
- 1990Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, , 104 Stat. 5117.
Show as published
(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. 873; Pub. L. 90–578, title IV, § 402(b)(2), , 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 91–383, § 10(a)(2), , as added Pub. L. 94–458, § 2, , 90 Stat. 1941; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, , 104 Stat. 5117.)