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Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73not60

§615a Sale of Timber in Alaska; Appraisal; Local Consumption; Accounting; Deposit in Treasury

Title 16 › Chapter 4— PROTECTION OF TIMBER, AND DEPREDATIONS › § 615a

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can have timber on public lands in Alaska valued and can sell as much as he chooses, but never for less than that value. He sets how much each buyer may buy, and the wood must be used in Alaska unless export is allowed under section 615b. Sales are limited to what Alaska actually needs each year. Buyers must pay the local land office officer the Secretary names, who must keep the money in a separate account, report it to the Secretary, and deposit it in the U.S. 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

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60