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[CITE: 16USC559]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 559. Arrests by employees of Forest Service for violations 
        of laws and regulations
        
    All persons employed in the Forest Service of the United States 
shall have authority to make arrests for the violation of the laws and 
regulations relating to the national forests, and any person so arrested 
shall be taken before the nearest United States magistrate judge, within 
whose jurisdiction the forest is located, for trial; and upon sworn 
information by any competent person any United States magistrate judge 
in the proper jurisdiction shall issue process for the arrest of any 
person charged with the violation of said laws and regulations; but 
nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the arrest by 
any officer of the United States, without process, of any person taken 
in the act of violating said laws and regulations.

(Mar. 3, 1905, ch. 1405, 33 Stat. 873; Pub. L. 90-578, title IV, 
Sec. 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 91-383, 
Sec. 10(a)(2), Aug. 18, 1970, as added Pub. L. 94-458, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 
1976, 90 Stat. 1941; Pub. L. 101-650, title III, Sec. 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 
104 Stat. 5117.)

                          Codification

    ``Forest Service of the United States'' substituted for ``forest 
reserve of the United States'' as the probable intent of Congress in 
that the federal forest reserves were transferred from Department of the 
Interior to Department of Agriculture by act Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, 
Sec. 1, 33 Stat. 628, and administration of forest reserves was placed 
in Forest Service which was created by that act.
    Words ``national forests'' and ``forest'' substituted for ``forest 
reserves'' and ``reservation'', respectively, on authority of act Mar. 
4, 1907, ch. 2907, 34 Stat. 1269, which provided that forest reserves 
shall hereafter be known as national forests.
    That part of act Mar. 3, 1905, which related to arrests by employees 
of the National Park Service for violations of laws and regulations, was 
(prior to the amendment made by Pub. L 94-458) classified to section 10 
of this title.


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 10(a)(2), as added Pub. L. 94-458, struck 
out ``and national parks'' after ``national forests'' and ``or national 
park'' after ``jurisdiction the forest''.

                         Change of Name

    ``United States magistrate judge'' substituted for ``United States 
magistrate'' wherever appearing in text pursuant to section 321 of Pub. 
L. 101-650, set out as a note under section 631 of Title 28, Judiciary 
and Judicial Procedure. Previously, ``United States magistrate'' 
substituted for ``United States commissioner'' pursuant to Pub. L. 90-
578. See chapter 43 (Sec. 631 et seq.) of Title 28.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 460lll-12 of this title.
