---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 560"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "560"
heading: "Use of timber for telephone lines for fire protection"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/560"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §560. Use of timber for telephone lines for fire protection


The [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture, whenever he may deem it necessary for the protection of the national forests from fire, may permit the use of timber free of charge for the construction of telephone lines.


## Source credit

(Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 145, § 1 (part), 37 Stat. 843.)