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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 122. Control; regulations

Statutory text

Crater Lake National Park shall be under the control and custody of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to establish rules and regulations and cause adequate measures to be taken for the preservation of the natural objects within said park, and also for the protection of the timber from wanton depredation, the preservation of all kinds of game and fish, the punishment of trespassers, the removal of unlawful occupants and intruders, and the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 57–820 § 2 · 32 Stat. 202

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 122

    (May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 2, 32 Stat. 202.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 2, 32 Stat. 202.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. Regulations, etc., by Secretary of Interior. That the reservation established by this Act shall be under the control and custody of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to establish rules and regulations and cause adequate measures to be taken for the preservation of the natural objects within said Sark, and also for the protection of the timber from wanton depredation, the preservation of all kinds of game and fish, the punishment of trespassers, the removal of unlawful occupants and intruders, and the prevention and extinguishment of forest fires.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 2, 32 Stat. 202.)

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