---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 602"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "602"
heading: "Seizure of timber cut"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/602"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations"
---

# §602. Seizure of timber cut


If any timber cut on the [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) shall be exported from the Territories of the United States, it shall be liable to seizure by United States authority wherever found.


## Source credit

(Apr. 30, 1878, ch. 76, § 2, 20 Stat. 46.)