---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 2701"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "2701"
heading: "Control of noxious plants on Federal lands; State programs; terms of entry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/2701"
units:
  - "Chapter 45 — State Control of Noxious Plants on Federal Lands"
---

# §2701. Control of noxious plants on Federal lands; State programs; terms of entry


The heads of Federal departments or agencies are authorized and directed to permit the commissioner of agriculture or other proper agency head of any [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) in which there is in effect a program for the control of noxious plants to enter upon any lands under their control or jurisdiction and destroy noxious plants growing on such land if—

- (1) such entry is in accordance with a program submitted to and approved by such department or agency: Provided, That no entry shall occur when the head of such Federal department or agency, or his designee, shall have certified that entry is inconsistent with national security;
- (2) the means by which noxious plants are destroyed are acceptable to the head of such department or agency; and
- (3) the same procedure required by the [State](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) program with respect to privately owned land has been followed.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–583, § 1, Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1146.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1241 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.