Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§580p–4 Injunction Against Unauthorized Manufacture, Use, or Reproduction
Title 16 › CHAPTER 3 — FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT › SUBCHAPTER I — GENERAL PROVISIONS › § 580p–4
Summary
You must not make, use, or copy the character or name "Smokey Bear", the character or name "Woodsy Owl", or the slogan "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute" in a way that suggests those characters, unless the Secretary has rules that allow it. If someone breaks this rule and the Secretary complains, the Attorney General can ask a court to stop them.
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Title 16, §580p–4
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(a)Whoever, except as provided by rules and regulations issued by the Secretary, manufactures, uses, or reproduces the character “Smokey Bear”, or the name “Smokey Bear”, or a facsimile or simulation of such character or name in such a manner as suggests “Smokey Bear” may be enjoined from such manufacture, use, or reproduction at the suit of the Attorney General upon complaint by the Secretary.
(b)Whoever, except as provided by rules and regulations issued by the Secretary, manufactures, uses, or reproduces the character “Woodsy Owl”, the name “Woodsy Owl”, or the slogan “Give a Hoot, Don’t Pollute”, or a facsimile or simulation of such character, name, or slogan in such a manner as suggests “Woodsy Owl” may be enjoined from such manufacture, use, or reproduction at the suit of the Attorney General upon complaint by the Secretary.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 488b–6 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
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16 U.S.C. § 580p–4
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102