§ 583e. — Remedies against private owners; jurisdiction; final orders; "owner" defined.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC583e]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER IV--SUSTAINED-YIELD FOREST MANAGEMENT
Sec. 583e. Remedies against private owners; jurisdiction; final
orders; ``owner'' defined
In addition to any other remedy available under existing law, upon
failure of any private owner of forest land which is subject to a
cooperative agreement entered into pursuant to this subchapter to comply
with the terms of such agreement, or upon failure of any purchaser of
timber or other forest products from such land to comply with the terms
and conditions required by such agreement to be included in the contract
of sale, the Attorney General, at the request of the Secretary
concerned, is authorized to institute against such owner or such
purchaser a proceeding in equity in the proper district court of the
United States, to require compliance with the terms and conditions of
said cooperative agreement; and jurisdiction is conferred upon said
district courts to hear and determine such proceedings, to order
compliance with the terms and conditions of cooperative agreements
entered into pursuant to this subchapter, and to make such temporary and
final orders as shall be deemed just in the premises. As used in this
section the term ``owner'' shall include the heirs, successors, and
assigns of the landowner entering into the cooperative agreements.
(Mar. 29, 1944, ch. 146, Sec. 6, 58 Stat. 134.)
