16 USC § 64 - Sale or disposal of timber; destruction of detrimental animal or plant life

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title: "16 USC § 64 - Sale or disposal of timber; destruction of detrimental animal or plant life"
title_number: 16
title_name: "CONSERVATION"
section_number: "64"
section_name: "Sale or disposal of timber; destruction of detrimental animal or plant life"
chapter_number: 1
chapter_name: "NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES"
subchapter_number: "VI"
subchapter_name: "SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
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source_credit: "(June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 5, 41 Stat. 732.)"
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# 2 Sale or disposal of timber; destruction of detrimental animal or plant life

See References in Text note below.

So in original. Probably should be “plant”.

August 25, 1916[^1][^2]

Nothing in sections 57, 58, and 60 to 65 of this title shall be construed as repealing or in any way modifying the authority granted the Secretary of the Interior by said section 3 of the said Act approved , to sell or dispose of timber in national parks in those cases where, in his judgment, the cutting of such timber is required in order to control the attacks of insects or diseases or otherwise conserve the scenery of the natural or historic objects in such parks and to provide for the destruction of such animals and such palnt  life as may be detrimental to the use of any of said parks, or the authority granted to said Secretary by sections 51 to 54 of this title.

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**Source Credit**: (June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 5, 41 Stat. 732.)

## Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Said section 3 of the said Act approved , referred to in text, is section 3 of , , which enacted . Section 3 of the Act was repealed and restated as , Crimes and Criminal Procedure, and sections 100751(a), 100752, 100753, and 102101 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by , §§ 3, 4(a)(1), 7, , , 3260, 3272.