16 USC 504: Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests
Text contains those laws in effect on January 2, 2001
From Title 16-CONSERVATIONCHAPTER 2-NATIONAL FORESTSSUBCHAPTER I-ESTABLISHMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
§504. Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests
The provisions of section 5 of title 41 shall not apply to any purchase by the Forest Service of forest-tree seed or cones or of forage plant seed when the amount involved does not exceed $10,000, nor to any purchase of forest-tree nursery stock when the amount involved does not exceed $500, whenever, in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture, such method is in the public interest.
(June 30, 1914, ch. 131,
Amendments
1950-Act Apr. 24, 1950, increased open market purchase limitation from $500 to $10,000 on forest-tree seed or cones or forage plant seed.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 580k of this title.