Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 123. Settlement, residence, lumbering, or business within park punishable; admission of visitors
Statutory text
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish any settlement or residence within Crater Lake National Park, or to engage in any lumbering, or other enterprise or business occupation therein, or to enter therein for any speculative purpose whatever, and any person violating the provisions of this section or sections 121 and 122 of this title, or the rules and regulations established thereunder, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall further be liable for all destruction of timber or other property of the United States in consequence of any such unlawful act. Crater Lake National Park shall be open, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to all scientists, excursionists, and pleasure seekers. Restaurant and hotel keepers, upon application to the Secretary of the Interior, may be permitted by him to establish places of entertainment within the Crater Lake National Park for the accommodation of visitors, at places and under regulations fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and not otherwise.
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. 57–820 § 3 · 32 Stat. 202
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 123
May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 3, 32 Stat. 203
Source evidence
Code source credit
May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 3, 32 Stat. 203Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any person to establish any Settlement in, etc., prohibited. settlement or residence within said reserve, or to engage in any lumbering or other enterprise or business occupation therein, or to enter therein for any speculative purpose whatever, and any person violating the provisions Penalties. of this Act, or the rules and regulations established thereunder, shall be punished by a line of not more than live hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall further be liable for all destruction of timber or other property of the United States in consequence of any such unlawful act: Provided,That said reservation Provisos. Admission of visitors, etc. shall be open, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to all scientists, excursionists, and pleasure seekers and to the location of mining claims and the working of the same: And provided further. That restaurant and hotel keepers, upon Hotels, etc., permitted. application to the Secretary of the Interior, may be permitted by him to establish places of entertainment within the Crater Lake National Park for the accommodation of visitors, at places and under regulations fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and not otherwise.Pub. L. 94–429 § 3(a) · 90 Stat. 1342
Struck · 16 U.S.C. § 123
Pub. L. 94–429 struck out provision that the park be open, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, to the location and working of mining claims
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 94–429 struck out provision that the park be open, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, to the location and working of mining claims.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(a) the first proviso of section 3 of the Act of May 22, 1902 (32 Stat. 203; 16 U.S.C. 123), relating to Crater Lake National Perk, is amended by deleting the words “and to the location of mining claims and the working of same”;
2 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1976—Pub. L. 94–429 struck out provision that the park be open, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, to the location and working of mining claims.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Mining Rights Existing Prior to 1976 Amendment
Section 3 of Pub. L. 94–429 provided in part that this section was amended as indicated in order to close area to entry and location under the Mining Law of 1872, subject to valid existing rights.
Credits
1902–1976 · 2 acts
- 1902May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 3, 32 Stat. 203
- 1976Pub. L. 94–429, § 3(a), , 90 Stat. 1342.
Show as published
(May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 3, 32 Stat. 203; Pub. L. 94–429, § 3(a), , 90 Stat. 1342.)