CITE

    16 USC Sec. 551a                                            01/08/2008

EXPCITE

    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 3 - FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
    SUBCHAPTER I - GENERAL PROVISIONS

HEAD

    Sec. 551a. Cooperation by Secretary of Agriculture with States and
      political subdivisions in law enforcement

STATUTE

      The Secretary of Agriculture, in connection with the
    administration and regulation of the use and occupancy of the
    national forests and national grasslands, is authorized to
    cooperate with any State or political subdivision thereof, on lands
    which are within or part of any unit of the national forest system,
    in the enforcement or supervision of the laws or ordinances of a
    State or subdivision thereof. Such cooperation may include the
    reimbursement of a State or its subdivision for expenditures
    incurred in connection with activities on national forest system
    lands. This section shall not deprive any State or political
    subdivision thereof of its right to exercise civil and criminal
    jurisdiction, within or on lands which are a part of the national
    forest system.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 92-82, Aug. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 303.)