16 USC 554a: Employees to be appointed without regard to political affiliations
Text contains those laws in effect on January 7, 2011
From Title 16-CONSERVATIONCHAPTER 3-FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENTSUBCHAPTER I-GENERAL PROVISIONS
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§554a. Employees to be appointed without regard to political affiliations
Forest inspectors, superintendents, supervisors, surveyors, rangers, and fire patrol are to be hereafter appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture wholly with reference to their fitness and without regard for their political affiliations.
(July 7, 1898, ch. 571, §1,
Transfer of Functions
Act Feb. 1, 1905, transferred certain functions with regard to the administration of public forests from Secretary of the Interior to Secretary of Agriculture.