---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 575"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "575"
heading: "Search for lost persons, and transportation of sick, injured, or dead persons, within national forests; authorization to incur expense"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/575"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §575. Search for lost persons, and transportation of sick, injured, or dead persons, within national forests; authorization to incur expense


The [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture is authorized in cases of emergency to incur such expenses as may be necessary in searching for [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) lost in the national forests and in transporting [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) seriously ill, injured, or who die within the national forests to the nearest place where the sick or injured [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b), or the body, may be transferred to interested parties or local authorities.


## Source credit

(May 27, 1930, ch. 337, § 3, 46 Stat. 387.)