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legal/us/code/title-16/chapter-2/section-504.md

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+title: "16 U.S.C. § 504"
+description: "Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests"
+jurisdiction: "us"
+corpus: "united_states_code"
+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 16
+title_name: "CONSERVATION"
+chapter_number: "2"
+chapter_name: "NATIONAL FORESTS"
+section: "504"
+citation: "16 U.S.C. § 504"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
+source: "official"
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+source_identifier: "/us/usc/t16/s504"
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+confidence: "official"
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+---
+
+# 16 U.S.C. § 504 - Purchases of tree seeds, cones, forage plant seed, and nursery stock for national forests
+
+## Text
+
+The provisions of section 6101 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, 38 Stat. 429; Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 2, 64 Stat. 83.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Editorial Notes
+
+Codification In text, “section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3709, Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 5),” on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.
+
+Amendments1950—Act Apr. 24, 1950, increased open market purchase limitation from $500 to $10,000 on forest-tree seed or cones or forage plant seed.