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legal/us/code/title-16/chapter-2/section-472.md

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+type: "LegalText"
+title: "16 U.S.C. § 472"
+description: "Laws affecting national forest lands"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 16
+title_name: "CONSERVATION"
+chapter_number: "2"
+chapter_name: "NATIONAL FORESTS"
+section: "472"
+citation: "16 U.S.C. § 472"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
+source_url: "https://uscode.house.gov/download/releasepoints/us/pl/119/100/xml_usc16@119-100.zip"
+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s472"
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+retrieved_at: "2026-07-04"
+confidence: "official"
+tags: ["legal", "us-code"]
+---
+
+# 16 U.S.C. § 472 - Laws affecting national forest lands
+
+## Text
+
+The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture shall execute or cause to be executed all laws affecting public lands reserved under the provisions of section 471 11 See References in Text note below. of this title, or sections supplemental to and amendatory thereof, after such lands have been so reserved, excepting such laws as affect the surveying, prospecting, locating, appropriating, entering, relinquishing, reconveying, certifying, or patenting of any of such lands.
+
+(Feb. 1, 1905, ch. 288, § 1, 33 Stat. 628.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+References in TextSection 471 of this title, referred to in text, was in the original a reference to section 24 of act Mar. 3, 1891, ch. 561, 26 Stat. 1103, and was repealed by Pub. L. 94–579, title VII, § 704(a), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2792.
+
+Codification Words “subject to the provisions for national forests established under subdivision (b) of section 471 of this title,” which had been inserted by the original codifiers of the 1926 ed. of the Code, have been omitted because of the repeal of section 471 of this title by Pub. L. 94–579.