§ 615a. — Sale of timber in Alaska; appraisal; local consumption; accounting; deposit in Treasury.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC615a]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 4--PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS
Sec. 615a. Sale of timber in Alaska; appraisal; local
consumption; accounting; deposit in Treasury
The Secretary of the Interior, under such rules and regulations as
he may prescribe, may cause to be appraised the timber or any part
thereof upon public lands in Alaska, and may from time to time sell so
much thereof as he may deem proper for not less than the appraised value
thereof, in such quantities to each purchaser as he shall prescribe, to
be used in Alaska except as aforesaid, but not for export therefrom
except as provided under section 615b of this title. And such sales
shall at all times be limited to actual necessities for consumption in
Alaska from year to year, and payments for such timber shall be made to
such officer as the Secretary of the Interior may designate of the local
land office of the land district in which said timber may be sold, under
such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may
prescribe, and the moneys arising therefrom shall be accounted for by
such officer as the Secretary of the Interior may designate to the
Secretary of the Interior in a separate account, and shall be covered
into the Treasury.
(May 14, 1898, ch. 299, Sec. 11, 30 Stat. 414; Oct. 28, 1921, ch. 114,
Sec. 1, 42 Stat. 208; Mar. 3, 1925, ch. 462, 43 Stat. 1144; 1946 Reorg.
Plan. No. 3, Sec. 403, eff. July 16, 1946, 11 F.R. 7876, 60 Stat. 1100.)
Codification
Section is comprised of the first two sentences of section 11 of act
May 14, 1898, the remainder of section 11 of act May 14, 1898, is
classified to section 607a of this title.
Section was formerly classified to section 421 of Title 48,
Territories and Insular Possessions.
Change of Name
Acts Oct. 28, 1921, and Mar. 3, 1925, consolidated offices of
register and receiver and provided for a single officer to be known as
register.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950,
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
Functions of Commissioner of General Land Office and registers
transferred to Secretary of the Interior or that officer as the
Secretary may designate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1946, set out in the
Appendix to Title 5.
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.
