§ 563. Cooperation with States for fire protection on private or State forest lands upon the watersheds of navigable rivers

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. 1911

   Pub. L. 61–186 § 2 · 36 Stat. 961

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 563

   (Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 2, 36 Stat. 961.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Mar. 1, 1911, ch. 186, § 2, 36 Stat. 961.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec.2. That the sum of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated Appropriation for cooperating with States for fire protection. and made available until expended, out of any moneys in the National Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to cooperate with any State or group of States, when requested to do so, in the protection from fire of the forested Forest lands on watersheds of navigable rivers. watersheds of navigable streams; and the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized, and on such conditions as he deems wise, to stipulate and agree with any State or group of States to cooperate in the organization and maintenance of a system of fire protection on any private or state forest lands within such State or States and situated upon the watershed of a navigable river: Provided, Provisos. That no such stipulation or agreement shall be made with any State which has not provided by law for a system of State law required. forest-lire protection: Provided further, That in no case shall the amount expended in any State exceed in any fiscal year the amount appropriated by that State for the same purpose during the Expenditures limited. same fiscal year.

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