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Title 16 - CONSERVATIONChapter 3 - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
Subchapter I - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 554a - Employees to be appointed without regard to political affiliations

16 U.S.C. § 554a

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Current through P.L. 118-106 (published on www.congress.gov on 10/04/2024)
Section 554a - Employees to be appointed without regard to political affiliations

Forest inspectors, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and fire patrol are to be hereafter appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations.

16 U.S.C. § 554a

July 7, 1898, ch. 571, §1, 30 Stat. 673; Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, §1, 33 Stat. 628.

STATUTORY NOTES AND RELATED SUBSIDIARIES

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONSAct Feb. 1, 1905, transferred certain functions with regard to the administration of public forests from Secretary of the Interior to Secretary of Agriculture.