18 U.S.C. § 1852 — Timber removed or transported

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 172 words · no verdicts yet

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A person who cuts, wantonly destroys, or removes timber from United States public lands in the specified circumstances, or knowingly transports that timber or lumber made from it, must be fined, imprisoned for up to one year, or both. The section preserves ordinary clearing and improvement by miners and farmers, United States use, and rights granted by existing laws.

A person who cuts or wantonly destroys timber growing on United States public lands; a person who removes timber from those lands intending to export or dispose of it; or an owner, master, pilot, operator, or consignee of a vessel, motor vehicle, or aircraft, or an owner, director, or agent of a railroad, who knowingly transports timber cut or removed from those lands, or lumber made from it, must be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to 1 year, or both. This section does not stop a miner or farmer from clearing land in the ordinary work of a mining claim or in preparing a farm for cultivation. It also does not stop them from taking timber needed to support their improvements. It does not stop taking timber for United States use, and it does not interfere with or remove any right or privilege under an existing United States law to cut or remove timber from public lands.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever cuts, or wantonly destroys any timber growing on the public lands of the United States; or

Whoever removes any timber from said public lands, with intent to export or to dispose of the same; or

Whoever, being the owner, master, pilot, operator, or consignee of any vessel, motor vehicle, or aircraft or the owner, director, or agent of any railroad, knowingly transports any timber so cut or removed from said lands, or lumber manufactured therefrom—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

This section shall not prevent any miner or agriculturist from clearing his land in the ordinary working of his mining claim, or in the preparation of his farm for tillage, or from taking the timber necessary to support his improvements, or the taking of timber for the use of the United States; nor shall it interfere with or take away any right or privilege under any existing law of the United States to cut or remove timber from any public lands.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 787; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit

1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 787
1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-294 · 110 Stat. 3498

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