16 U.S.C. § 565b — Transfer of fire lookout towers and other improvements for fire control to States, political subdivisions or agencies; reversion
submitted 68 years ago by Pub. L. 85-464 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 176 words · no verdicts yet
The Secretary may transfer unneeded Forest Service fire structures and certain land to States or their subdivisions for fire protection. The property returns to the United States if it is not used within two years or stops being used for two years within the first fifteen years.
Subject to conditions the Secretary sets, the Secretary may transfer, without payment or at set prices and terms, fire lookout towers and other structures or improvements the Forest Service used for fire prevention or suppression to a State, its political subdivision, or its agency. The Secretary may also transfer land used with them if it lies outside national-forest boundaries. The property must be valuable to the recipient’s fire-protection system and no longer needed by the Forest Service. If transferred property is not used for that purpose within two years after transfer, or stops being used for that purpose for two years within fifteen years after transfer, its title automatically returns to and immediately becomes vested in the United States.
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, subject to such conditions as he may prescribe, to transfer, without reimbursement or at such prices and upon such terms as he may impose, to States and political subdivisions or agencies thereof fire lookout towers and other structures or improvements used by the Forest Service for fire prevention or suppression purposes, and the land used in connection therewith if such land is outside national forest boundaries, when they are no longer needed by the Forest Service for such purposes but are of value to the State or political subdivision or agency thereof in its fire protection system: Provided, That if any property so transferred is not put to use for the purpose for which it was transferred within two years from the date of transfer, or if, within fifteen years from the date of transfer, any such property should cease to be used for the purpose for which it was transferred for a period of two years, title thereto shall revert to and immediately revest in the United States.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 85–464, § 5, June 20, 1958, 72 Stat. 217.)
- 1958Enacted · Pub. L. 85-464 · 72 Stat. 217
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