---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 203"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "203"
heading: "Sale and removal of timber; charges for leases and privileges"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/203"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXII — Lassen Volcanic National Park"
---

# §203. Sale and removal of timber; charges for leases and privileges


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior may sell and permit the removal of such matured or dead or down timber as he may deem necessary or advisable for the protection or improvement of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and may exact such charges as he deems proper for leases and all other privileges granted under this section and sections [201](/usc/16/201.md) and [202](/usc/16/202.md) of this title.


## Source credit

(Aug. 9, 1916, ch. 302, §§ 3, 4, 39 Stat. 444.)