US Code

Public Law 119-73 (01/23/2026)

16 U.S.C. § 472

Laws affecting national forest lands

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1 See References in Text note below.
The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall execute or cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands reserved under the provisions of section 471  of this title, or sections supplemental to and amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patenting of any of such lands.

Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 133 Stat. 628(, .)

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 471 of this titleact Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 56126 Stat. 1103Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a)90 Stat. 2792, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to section 24 of , , and was repealed by , , .

Codification

section 471 of this titlesection 471 of this titlePub. L. 94–579Words “subject to the provisions for national forests established under subdivision (b) of ,” which had been inserted by the original codifiers of the 1926 ed. of the Code, have been omitted because of the repeal of by .