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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations

§ 616. Exportation of timber cut on national forest or public land in Alaska

Statutory text

Timber lawfully cut on any national forest, or on the public lands in Alaska, may be exported from the State or Territory where grown if, in the judgment of the Secretary of the department administering the national forests, or the public lands in Alaska, the supply of timber for local use will not be endangered thereby, and the respective Secretaries concerned are authorized to issue rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this section.

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. (Apr. 12, 1926, § 1, ch. 117, 44 Stat. 242.) · 44 Stat. 242

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 616

    (Apr. 12, 1926, § 1, ch. 117, 44 Stat. 242.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Apr. 12, 1926, § 1, ch. 117, 44 Stat. 242.)

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Executive Documents

Admission of Alaska as State

Admission of Alaska into the Union was accomplished , on issuance of Proc. No. 3269, , 24 F.R. 81, 73 Stat. c16, as required by sections 1 and 8(c) of Pub. L. 85–508, , 72 Stat. 339, set out as notes preceding section 21 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

Credits

(, § 1, ch. 117, 44 Stat. 242.)

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