---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 612"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "612"
heading: "Permits to cut and remove timber to certain corporations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/612"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations"
---

# §612. Permits to cut and remove timber to certain corporations


It shall be lawful for the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior to grant permits in accordance with the provisions of [section 607 of this title](/usc/16/607.md), to corporations incorporated under a Federal law of the United States or incorporated under the laws of a [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) or Territory of the United States, other than the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) in which the privilege is requested, said permits to confer the same rights and benefits upon such corporations as are conferred upon corporations incorporated in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) in which the privilege is to be exercised: Provided, That all such corporations shall first have complied with the laws of that [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) so as to entitle them to do business therein; but nothing herein shall operate to enlarge the rights of any railway company to cut timber on the public domain.


## Source credit

(Jan. 11, 1921, ch. 22, 41 Stat. 1088.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

See portion of note under section 604 of this title relative to act Jan. 11, 1921, which is applicable equally to this section.