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CITE

    18 USC Sec. 1852                                            01/05/2009

EXPCITE

    TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
    PART I - CRIMES
    CHAPTER 91 - PUBLIC LANDS

HEAD

    Sec. 1852. Timber removed or transported

STATUTE

      Whoever cuts, or wantonly destroys any timber growing on the
    public lands of the United States; or
      Whoever removes any timber from said public lands, with intent to
    export or to dispose of the same; or
      Whoever, being the owner, master, pilot, operator, or consignee
    of any vessel, motor vehicle, or aircraft or the owner, director,
    or agent of any railroad, knowingly transports any timber so cut or
    removed from said lands, or lumber manufactured therefrom -
      Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one
    year, or both.
      This section shall not prevent any miner or agriculturist from
    clearing his land in the ordinary working of his mining claim, or
    in the preparation of his farm for tillage, or from taking the
    timber necessary to support his improvements, or the taking of
    timber for the use of the United States; nor shall it interfere
    with or take away any right or privilege under any existing law of
    the United States to cut or remove timber from any public lands.

SOURCE

    (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 787; Pub. L. 104-294, title VI,
    Sec. 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)

HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES

      Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Sec. 103 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch.
    321, Sec. 49, 35 Stat. 1098).
      Reference to persons causing or procuring was omitted as
    unnecessary in view of definition of "principal" in section 2 of
    this title.
      Words "motor vehicle or aircraft" were inserted in third
    paragraph to remove any doubt as to scope of section in view of
    rapidly advancing methods of transportation.
      Minor changes were made in phraseology.
                                AMENDMENTS
      1996 - Pub. L. 104-294 substituted "fined under this title" for
    "fined not more than $1,000" in fourth par.