§ 612. — Permits to cut and remove timber to certain corporations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC612]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 4--PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS
Sec. 612. Permits to cut and remove timber to certain
corporations
It shall be lawful for the Secretary of the Interior to grant
permits in accordance with the provisions of section 607 of this title,
to corporations incorporated under a Federal law of the United States or
incorporated under the laws of a State or Territory of the United
States, other than the State in which the privilege is requested, said
permits to confer the same rights and benefits upon such corporations as
are conferred upon corporations incorporated in the State in which the
privilege is to be exercised: Provided, That all such corporations shall
first have complied with the laws of that State so as to entitle them to
do business therein; but nothing herein shall operate to enlarge the
rights of any railway company to cut timber on the public domain.
(Jan. 11, 1921, ch. 22, 41 Stat. 1088.)
Codification
See portion of note under section 604 of this title relative to act
Jan. 11, 1921, which is applicable equally to this section.
