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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 695. Migratory waterfowl and other wildlife refuge in California; participation by State of California

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to purchase or rent not to exceed twenty thousand acres of land or interests therein in suitable locations in the State of California, for the management and control of migratory waterfowl and other wildlife in connection therewith, from moneys to be appropriated by Congress from time to time: Provided, That no sums appropriated under this authority for the acquisition of lands shall be expended for such purpose unless and until the State of California shall have set aside and made available for expenditure funds for the purchase of equivalent acreages as determined by the Secretary of the Interior.

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. 80–303 § 1 · 62 Stat. 238

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 695

    (May 18, 1948, ch. 303, § 1, 62 Stat. 238.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 18, 1948, ch. 303, § 1, 62 Stat. 238.)

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Credits

(May 18, 1948, ch. 303, § 1, 62 Stat. 238.)

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