Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 371. Use of free bathhouses limited
Statutory text
Only persons who are without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths and are suffering from ailments for which bathing in the water of the Hot Springs National Park will afford relief or effect a cure shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and before any person shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the reservation he shall be required to make oath, before such officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes as the superintendent of the Hot Springs National Park shall designate, that he is without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths, and any person desiring to bathe at the free bathhouse on the Hot Springs National Park making a false oath as to his financial condition shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300 and be imprisoned for not more than sixty days.
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. 61–200 · 36 Stat. 347
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 371
Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 200, 36 Stat. 1015
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 200, 36 Stat. 1015
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1936—Act , increased fine from not more than $25 to not less than $25 nor more than $300 and maximum prison term from not more than 30 days to not more than 60 days.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Hot Springs National Park” substituted in text for “Hot Springs Reservation” pursuant to act .
Credits
1911–1936 · 3 acts
- 1911Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 200, 36 Stat. 1015
- 1921Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161, § 1, 41 Stat. 1407
- 1936June 26, 1936, ch. 843, 49 Stat. 1979.
Show as published
(Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 200, 36 Stat. 1015; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161, § 1, 41 Stat. 1407; June 26, 1936, ch. 843, 49 Stat. 1979.)