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Title 25 — Indians

Chapter 45 — Protection of Indians and Conservation of Resources

§ 5109. Indian forestry units; rules and regulations

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is directed to make rules and regulations for the operation and management of Indian forestry units on the principle of sustained-yield management, to restrict the number of livestock grazed on Indian range units to the estimated carrying capacity of such ranges, and to promulgate such other rules and regulations as may be necessary to protect the range from deterioration, to prevent soil erosion, to assure full utilization of the range, and like purposes.

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. 73–576 § 6 · 48 Stat. 984

    Enacted · 25 U.S.C. § 5109

    (June 18, 1934, ch. 576, § 6, 48 Stat. 986.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 18, 1934, ch. 576, § 6, 48 Stat. 986.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Interior is directed to make rules and regulations for the operation and management of Indian forestry units on the principle of sustained-yield management, to restrict the number of livestock grazed on Indian range units to the estimated carrying capacity of such ranges, and to promulgate such other rules and regulations as may be necessary to protect the range from deterioration, to prevent soil erosion, to assure full utilization of the range, and like purposes.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 466 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Credits

(June 18, 1934, ch. 576, § 6, 48 Stat. 986.)

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