16 U.S.C. § 64

Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)

Section 64 - Sale or disposal of timber; destruction of detrimental animal or plant life

Nothing in sections 57, 58, and 60 to 65 of this title shall be construed as repealing or in any way modifying the authority granted the Secretary of the Interior by said section 3 of the said Act approved August 25, 1916,¹ to sell or dispose of timber in national parks in those cases where, in his judgment, the cutting of such timber is required in order to control the attacks of insects or diseases or otherwise conserve the scenery of the natural or historic objects in such parks and to provide for the destruction of such animals and such palnt² life as may be detrimental to the use of any of said parks, or the authority granted to said Secretary by sections 51 to 54 of this title.

¹See References in Text note below.

²So in original. Probably should be "plant".

16 U.S.C. § 64

June 2, 1920, ch. 218, §5, 41 Stat. 732.

EDITORIAL NOTES

REFERENCES IN TEXTSaid section 3 of the said Act approved August 25, 1916, referred to in text, is section 3 of act Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, 39 Stat. 535, which enacted section 3 of this title. Section 3 of the Act was repealed and restated as section 1865(a) of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113-287, §§3, Dec. 19, 2014, 4, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3260, 3272.