---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 580p–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "580p–4"
heading: "Injunction against unauthorized manufacture, use, or reproduction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/580p-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Forests; Forest Service; Reforestation; Management"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §580p–4. Injunction against unauthorized manufacture, use, or reproduction

- (a) Whoever, except as provided by rules and regulations issued by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3), manufactures, uses, or reproduces the character “[Smokey Bear](/usc/16/580p.md?p=2)”, or the name “[Smokey Bear](/usc/16/580p.md?p=2)”, or a facsimile or simulation of such character or name in such a manner as suggests “[Smokey Bear](/usc/16/580p.md?p=2)” may be enjoined from such manufacture, use, or reproduction at the suit of the Attorney General upon complaint by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3).
- (b) Whoever, except as provided by rules and regulations issued by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3), manufactures, uses, or reproduces the character “[Woodsy Owl](/usc/16/580p.md?p=1)”, the name “[Woodsy Owl](/usc/16/580p.md?p=1)”, or the slogan “[Give a Hoot, Don](/usc/16/580p.md?p=1)’t Pollute”, or a fac­simile or simulation of such character, name, or slogan in such a manner as suggests “[Woodsy Owl](/usc/16/580p.md?p=1)” may be enjoined from such manufacture, use, or reproduction at the suit of the Attorney General upon complaint by the [Secretary](/usc/16/580p.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–318, § 4, June 22, 1974, 88 Stat. 245.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 488b–6 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.