§ 607a. — Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers, residents, miners, etc.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC607a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 4--PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS
Sec. 607a. Cutting and use of timber in Alaska by settlers,
residents, miners, etc.
The Secretary of the Interior may permit under regulations to be
prescribed by him the use of timber found upon the public land in Alaska
by actual settlers, residents, individual miners, and prospectors for
minerals, for firewood, fencing, buildings, mining, prospecting, and for
domestic purposes, as may actually be needed by such persons for such
purposes and may permit such use by churches, hospitals, and charitable
institutions in Alaska for firewood, fencing, buildings, and for
domestic purposes.
(May 14, 1898, ch. 299, Sec. 11, 30 Stat. 414; June 15, 1938, ch. 437,
52 Stat. 699.)
Codification
Section is comprised of the last sentence of section 11 of act May
14, 1898. The remainder of section 11 of act May 14, 1898, is classified
to section 615a of this title.
Section was formerly classified to section 423 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
Amendments
1938--Act June 15, 1938, inserted last clause relating to use of
timber by churches, hospitals, and charitable institutions.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 3215 of this title; title 43
sections 942-1, 942-3 to 942-8.
