The division of forestry is authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase, gift, lease, or otherwise, and hold title thereto in the name of the state, lands to be known as state forests.Acts 1937, ch. 280, § 7; C. Supp. 1950, § 630.11 (Williams, § 630.12); impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 11; impl. am. Acts 1963, ch. 169, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 11-406; Acts 1986, ch. 652, § 42; T.C.A., § 11-4-106.
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