2019 US Code
Title 16 - Conservation
Chapter 4 - Protection of Timber, and Depredations
Sec. 607a - Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc.

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Citation 16 U.S.C. § 607a (2019)
Section Name §607a. Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc.
Section Text

The Secretary of the Interior may permit under regulations to be prescribed by him the use of timber found upon the public land in Alaska by actual settlers, residents, individual miners, and prospectors for minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and for domestic purposes, as may actually be needed by such persons for such purposes and may permit such use by churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions in Alaska for firewood, fencing, buildings, and for domestic purposes.

Source Credit

(May 14, 1898, ch. 299, §11, 30 Stat. 414; June 15, 1938, ch. 437, 52 Stat. 699.)

Editorial Notes CODIFICATION

Section is comprised of the last sentence of section 11 of act May 14, 1898. The remainder of section 11 of act May 14, 1898, is classified to section 615a of this title.

Section was formerly classified to section 423 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

AMENDMENTS

1938—Act June 15, 1938, inserted last clause relating to use of timber by churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions.

Publication Title United States Code, 2018 Edition, Supplement 1, Title 16 - CONSERVATION
Category Bills and Statutes
Collection United States Code
SuDoc Class Number Y 1.2/5:
Contained Within Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 4 - PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS
Sec. 607a - Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc.
Contains section 607a
Date 2019
Laws In Effect As Of Date January 24, 2020
Positive Law No
Disposition standard
Statutes at Large References 30 Stat. 414
52 Stat. 699
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