---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 559a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "559a"
heading: "Reward for information leading to arrest and conviction for violating laws and regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/559a"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §559a. Reward for information leading to arrest and conviction for violating laws and regulations


The [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture may pay rewards from appropriations available for the protection and management of the national forests, under such regulations as he may prescribe, for information leading to the arrest and conviction for [violation](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of the laws and regulations relating to fires in or near national forests, or for the unlawful [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) of, or injury to, Government property.


## Source credit

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title II, § 201, 58 Stat. 736.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as a part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944.