Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 373. Injuries to property
Statutory text
Any person who shall, within the tract mentioned in section 372 of this title, commit any damage, injury, or spoliation to or upon any building, fence, hedge, gate, guidepost, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden, crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon, or situated therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $100 and be adjudged to pay all costs of the proceedings.
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. 58–1400 § 3 · 33 Stat. 187
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 373
(Apr. 20, 1904, ch. 1400, § 3, 33 Stat. 187.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Apr. 20, 1904, ch. 1400, § 3, 33 Stat. 187.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. That any person who shall, within the said above-mentioned Protection to property, etc. tract, commit any damage, injury, or spoliation to or upon any building fence, hedge, gate, guidepost, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden, crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon, Penalty. or situated therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a line of not more than one hundred dollars and be adjudged to pay all costs of the proceedings.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Apr. 20, 1904, ch. 1400, § 3, 33 Stat. 187.)