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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 559. Arrests by employees of Forest Service for violations of laws and regulations
All persons employed in the Forest Service of the United States
shall have authority to make arrests for the violation of the laws
and regulations relating to the national forests, and any person so
arrested shall be taken before the nearest United States magistrate
judge, within whose jurisdiction the forest is located, for trial;
and upon sworn information by any competent person any United
States magistrate judge in the proper jurisdiction shall issue
process for the arrest of any person charged with the violation of
said laws and regulations; but nothing herein contained shall be
construed as preventing the arrest by any officer of the United
States, without process, of any person taken in the act of
violating said laws and regulations.
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