16 U.S.C. § 472 — Laws affecting national forest lands

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This law tells the Secretary of Agriculture to enforce laws on national forest land. But it does not apply to laws about surveying, claiming, or getting formal ownership title to that land.

The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture must carry out -- or have someone carry out -- all laws that apply to public lands that have been set aside as forest reserves under section 471 of this title, or under any related laws that update or add to section 471. This duty applies once the land has already been reserved. There is one exception: this section does not cover laws about surveying the land, prospecting on it, staking a claim, applying to acquire it, giving it up, transferring it back, certifying it, or "patenting" it -- that is, laws about how someone gets or gives up formal legal ownership of the land. Those laws stay in the hands of whichever agency normally handles them.

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The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall execute or cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands reserved under the provisions of section 471 1 of this title, or sections supplemental to and amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patenting of any of such lands.

Source credit: (Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 1, 33 Stat. 628.)

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1905Enacted · Act of Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288 · 33 Stat. 628

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 288 on 1905-02-01.

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