---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 580f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "580f"
heading: "Telephones for official use in private residences"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/580f"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §580f. Telephones for official use in private residences


Notwithstanding the provisions of [section 1348 of title 31](/usc/31/1348.md), appropriations for the protection and management of the national forests and other lands administered by the Forest Service shall be available to pay for telephone service installed in residences of employees and of [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) cooperating with the Forest Service who reside within or near such lands when such installation is determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3) of Agriculture to be needed in protecting such lands: Provided, That in [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the monthly local service charge, the Government may pay only such tolls or other charges as are required strictly for the public business.


## Source credit

(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, § 10, 64 Stat. 85; Pub. L. 85–464, § 6, June 20, 1958, 72 Stat. 217.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Section 1348 of title 31” substituted in text for “section 7 of the Act of August 23, 1912, as amended (31 U.S.C. 679)” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.

### Amendments

1958—Pub. L. 85–464 inserted “and other lands administered by the Forest Service” after “forests”, and substituted “residences of employees” for “residences of seasonal employees”, and “such lands” for “the national forests” in two places.