Volume 44
Public Law 69–780
To define trespass on coal land of the United States and to provide a penalty therefor.
Approved July 3, 1926
Statutory text
An Act
To define trespass on coal land of the United States and to provide a penalty therefor.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That it shall be unlawful to mine and remove coal of any character, whether anthracite, bituminous, or lignite, from beds or deposits in lands of the United States, or in deposits or beds reserved to the United States, with the intent wrongfully to appropriate, sell, or dispose of the same, and every person who shall violate any of the provisions
Punishment for.
of this Act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Sec. 2.
Nothing in this Act, however, shall interfere with any
Existing rights not interfered with.
right or privilege conferred by existing laws of the United States.
Approved, July 3, 1926.