Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 114. Removal, disturbance, destruction, or molestation of ruins
Statutory text
Any person or persons who may otherwise in any manner willfully remove, disturb, destroy, or molest any of the ruins, mounds, buildings, graves, relics, or other evidences of an ancient civilization or other property from said park shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any court having jurisdiction of such offenses shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or such person or persons may be fined and imprisoned, at the discretion of the judge, and shall be required to restore the property disturbed, if possible.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 59–3607 § 4 · 34 Stat. 616
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 114
(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 4, 34 Stat. 617.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 4, 34 Stat. 617.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 4. That any person or persons who may otherwise in any Penalty for destroying ruins, etc. manner willfully remove, disturb, destroy, or molest any of the ruins, mounds, buildings, graves, relics, or other evidences of an ancient civilization or other property from said park shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any court having jurisdiction of such offenses shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or such person or persons may be fined and imprisoned, at the discretion of the judge, and shall be required to restore the property disturbed, if possible.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, § 4, 34 Stat. 617.)