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[CITE: 16USC575]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 575. Search for lost persons, and transportation of sick, 
        injured, or dead persons, within national forests; authorization 
        to incur expense
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized in cases of emergency to 
incur such expenses as may be necessary in searching for persons lost in 
the national forests and in transporting persons seriously ill, injured, 
or who die within the national forests to the nearest place where the 
sick or injured person, or the body, may be transferred to interested 
parties or local authorities.

(May 27, 1930, ch. 337, Sec. 3, 46 Stat. 387.)
