BS
Boise Standard
Treasure Valley · AI Directory
16 U.S.C. · Conservation
16 U.S.C. § 488

Establishment of exterior boundaries of national forests

Ch. 2 — NATIONAL FORESTS
Title 16 U.S.C. ● ACTIVE Primary Source Ch. 2
Statutory Text

16 U.S.C. § 488 — Establishment of exterior boundaries of national forests

U.S.C. Title 16 - CONSERVATION 16 U.S.C. United States Code, 2023 Edition Title 16 - CONSERVATION CHAPTER 2 - NATIONAL FORESTS SUBCHAPTER I - ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Sec. 488 - Establishment of exterior boundaries of national forests From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§488. Establishment of exterior boundaries of national forests

On and after Mar. 3, 1899, all standard, meander, township, and section lines of the public-land surveys shall be established under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate, whether the lands to be surveyed are within or without national forests, except that where the exterior boundaries of national forests are required to be coincident with standard, township, or section lines, such boundaries may, if not previously established in the ordinary course of the public-land surveys, be established and marked under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey whenever necessary to complete the survey of such exterior boundaries.

(Mar. 3, 1899, ch. 424, §1, 30 Stat. 1097; 1946 Reorg. Plan No. 3, §403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)

Editorial Notes

Codification "National forests" substituted in text for "reservations" and "public forest reservations" on authority of act Mar. 4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves shall hereafter be known as national forests.

Executive Documents

Change of Name "Secretary of the Interior or such officer as he may designate" substituted in text for "Commissioner of the General Land Office" on authority of Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Transfer of Functions For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Source: uscode.house.gov — public domain Official Source ↗
Root-LD Entity Data
◈ Machine-Readable Provenance Record Root-LD v1.0 · boisestandard.org
Federation ID
BS-USC16-SEC-302892
Entity Class
STATUTE / FEDERAL-CODE-SECTION
Domain Signature
boisestandard.org
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 488
Jurisdiction
Federal — United States
Status
✓ ACTIVE
Source
PRIMARY-SOURCE
Source Verified
✓ TRUE
Content Hash
b7108e2e6bd47602...
Semantic Edges
Pending — corpus passes queued
The statutory text of 16 U.S.C. § 488 is reproduced from the official United States Code as published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives (uscode.house.gov).
Navigate Corpus — Title 16
← 16 U.S.C. § 487a 16 U.S.C. § 489 →
Ch. 2 — NATIONAL FORESTS
16 U.S.C. § 471a16 U.S.C. § 471b16 U.S.C. § 471c16 U.S.C. § 471d16 U.S.C. § 471e16 U.S.C. § 471f16 U.S.C. § 471g16 U.S.C. § 471h16 U.S.C. § 471i16 U.S.C. § 471j16 U.S.C. § 472a16 U.S.C. § 47716 U.S.C. § 47816 U.S.C. § 478a16 U.S.C. § 47916 U.S.C. § 479a16 U.S.C. § 48016 U.S.C. § 48116 U.S.C. § 48216 U.S.C. § 482a16 U.S.C. § 482b16 U.S.C. § 482c16 U.S.C. § 482d16 U.S.C. § 482e16 U.S.C. § 482f16 U.S.C. § 482g16 U.S.C. § 482h16 U.S.C. § 482h116 U.S.C. § 482h216 U.S.C. § 482h3
16 U.S.C. — public domain ← All Legislation
◈ Provenance
boisestandard.org → United States → Law → U.S. Code → Title 16 → 16 U.S.C. § 488