Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§615a Sale of Timber in Alaska; Appraisal; Local Consumption; Accounting; Deposit in Treasury
Title 16 › CHAPTER 4 — PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS › § 615a
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior may appraise and sell timber on public Alaska land at not less than appraised value. He sets rules and buyer limits, and the timber must be used in Alaska unless section 615b allows export. Buyers pay a designated local land officer, who keeps the money in a separate account and sends it to the Treasury.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §615a
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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.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
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.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
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.
Executive Documents
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, §§ 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.
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 615a
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102