§ 559a. — Reward for information leading to arrest and conviction for violating laws and regulations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC559a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 559a. Reward for information leading to arrest and
conviction for violating laws and regulations
The Secretary of Agriculture may pay rewards from appropriations
available for the protection and management of the national forests,
under such regulations as he may prescribe, for information leading to
the arrest and conviction for violation of the laws and regulations
relating to fires in or near national forests, or for the unlawful
taking of, or injury to, Government property.
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, Sec. 201, 58 Stat. 736.)
Codification
Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture
Organic Act of 1944.
