Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§593 Protection of Timber in Florida
Title 16 › CHAPTER 4 — PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS › § 593
Summary
The President can use Army and Navy forces to stop cutting, destroying, or removing U.S. timber in Florida and to take other steps to protect it.
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Title 16, §593
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The President is authorized to employ so much of the land and naval forces of the United States as may be necessary effectually to prevent the felling, cutting down, or other destruction of the timber of the United States in Florida, and to prevent the transportation or carrying away any such timber as may be already felled or cut down; and to take such other and further measures as may be deemed advisable for the preservation of the timber of the United States in Florida.
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Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 2460 derived from act Feb. 23, 1882, ch. 9, 3 Stat. 651.
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16 U.S.C. § 593
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102