Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 9A — Preservation of Fishery Resources
§ 760f. Migratory game fish study; authorization to acquire facilities, employ officers and employees, cooperate with State and other agencies, and to publish results
Statutory text
For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections 760e to 760g of this title, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized (1) to acquire lands, construct laboratory or other buildings, purchase boats, acquire such other equipment and apparatus, and to employ such officers and employees as he deems necessary; (2) to cooperate or contract with State and other institutions and agencies upon such terms and conditions as he determines to be appropriate; and (3) to make public the results of such research conducted pursuant to section 760e of this title.
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. 86–359 § 2 · 73 Stat. 639
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 760f
Pub. L. 86–359, § 2, Sept. 22, 1959, 73 Stat. 642
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 86–359, § 2, Sept. 22, 1959, 73 Stat. 642Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized (1) to acquire lands, construct laboratory or other buildings, purchase boats, acquire such other equipment and apparatus, and to employ such officers and employees as he deems necessary; (2) to cooperate or contract with State and other institutions and agencies upon such terms and conditions as he determines to be appropriate; and (3) to make public the results of such research conducted pursuant to the first section of this Act.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of functions to Secretary of Commerce from Secretary of the Interior by Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1970, see note set out under section 755 of this title.
Credits
1959–1970 · 2 acts
- 1959Pub. L. 86–359, § 2, , 73 Stat. 642
- 19701970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, § 1(b), eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.
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(Pub. L. 86–359, § 2, , 73 Stat. 642; 1970 Reorg. Plan No. 4, § 1(b), eff. , 35 F.R. 15627, 84 Stat. 2090.)