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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management

§ 575. Search for lost persons, and transportation of sick, injured, or dead persons, within national forests; authorization to incur expense

Statutory text

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cases of emergency to incur such expenses as may be necessary in searching for persons lost in the national forests and in transporting persons seriously ill, injured, or who die within the national forests to the nearest place where the sick or injured person, or the body, may be transferred to interested parties or local authorities.

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. 71–337 § 3 · 46 Stat. 387

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 575

    (May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 3, 46 Stat. 387.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 3, 46 Stat. 387.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cases Expenses allowed in emergency cases. of emergency to incur such expenses as may be necessary in search-ing for persons lost in the national forests and in transporting persons seriously ill, injured, or who die within the national forests to the nearest place where the sick or injured person, or the body, may be transferred to interested parties or local authorities.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 3, 46 Stat. 387.)

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