25 U.S.C. § 196
Section 196 · Sale or other disposition of dead timber
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker (1980)
Most recently applied in Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation v. United States (March 1999)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The President of the United States may from year to year in his discretion under such regulations as he may prescribe authorize the Indians residing on reservations or allotments, the fee to which remains in the United States, to fell, cut, remove, sell or otherwise dispose of the dead timber standing, or fallen, on such reservation or allotment for the sole benefit of such Indian or Indians. But whenever there is reasonable cause to believe that such timber has been killed, burned, girdled, or otherwise injured for the purpose of securing its sale under this section then in that case such authority shall not be granted.
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Cross References
Mature living and dead and down timber on unallotted Indian lands to be sold under regulations prescribed by Secretary of the Interior, see section 407 of this title.