Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management
§ 559a. Reward for information leading to arrest and conviction for violating laws and regulations
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture may pay rewards from appropriations available for the protection and management of the national forests, under such regulations as he may prescribe, for information leading to the arrest and conviction for violation of the laws and regulations relating to fires in or near national forests, or for the unlawful taking of, or injury to, Government property.
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. § 559a
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 201, 58 Stat. 736.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 201, 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, § 201, 58 Stat. 736.)