§ 593. — Protection of timber in Florida.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC593]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 4--PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS
Sec. 593. Protection of timber in Florida
The President is authorized to employ so much of the land and naval
forces of the United States as may be necessary effectually to prevent
the felling, cutting down, or other destruction of the timber of the
United States in Florida, and to prevent the transportation or carrying
away any such timber as may be already felled or cut down; and to take
such other and further measures as may be deemed advisable for the
preservation of the timber of the United States in Florida.
(R.S. Sec. 2460.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2460 derived from act Feb. 23, 1882, ch. 9, 3 Stat. 651.
