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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.

  1. 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. 203

    Enacted 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.

  2. 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
  1. 1902May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 3, 32 Stat. 203
  2. 1976Pub. L. 94–429, § 3(a), , 90 Stat. 1342.
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(May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 3, 32 Stat. 203; Pub. L. 94–429, § 3(a), , 90 Stat. 1342.)

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