Volume 47 · 1421
Public Law 72–180
To provide for the protection of national military parks, national parks, battlefield sites, national monuments, and miscellaneous memorials under the control of the War Department.
Approved March 2, 1933
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for the protection of national military parks, national parks, battlefield sites, national monuments, and miscellaneous memorials under the control of the War Department.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of War is hereby authorized to prescribe and publish such regulations as he deems necessary for the proper government and protection of, and maintenance of good order in, national military parks, national parks, battlefield sites, national monuments, and miscellaneous memorials as are now or hereafter may be under the
Punishment for violation.
control of the War Department; and any person who knowingly and willfully violates any such regulation shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by a fine of not more than $100 or by imprisonment for not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Sec. 2.
That the commissioners, superintendents, caretakers, officers, or guards of such national military parks, national parks, battlefield sites, national monuments, and miscellaneous memorials, or any of them, are authorized to make arrests for violations of any of the regulations prescribed pursuant to this Act, and to bring the offenders before the nearest commissioner, judge, or court of the United States having jurisdiction in the premises
Approved, March 2, 1933.