§ 374. Taking or use of or bathing in water in violation of rules and regulations

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. 1904

   Pub. L. 58–1400 § 4 · 33 Stat. 187

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 374

   Apr. 20, 1904, ch. 1400, § 4, 33 Stat. 188

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Apr. 20, 1904, ch. 1400, § 4, 33 Stat. 188

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That any person who shall, except in compliance with such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may deem, necessary, and which he is hereby authorized and directed to make, enter or attempt to enter upon said described tract, take, or attempt to take, use, or attempt to use, bathe in, or attempt to bathe in water of any spring located thereon, or without presenting satisfactory evidence that he or she (provided he or she is under medical treatment) is the patient of a physician duly registered at the office of the superintendent of the Hot Springs Reservation as one qualified, under such rules which the Secretary of the Interior may have made or shall make, to prescribe the waters of the Hot Springs, shall be deemed guilty of a Penalty. misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and be adjudged to pay all costs Provisos. Soliciting patronage by registered physicians forbidden. of the proceedings: Provided, That no physician who shall engage in the solicitation of patronage through the medium of drummers, or Only permits by registered physician valid. otherwise, shall be or remain thus registered: And provided further, That if any person so bathing, or attempting to bathe, or so entering, or attempting to enter upon the described tract, shall have the permit of a physician, such physician shall be liable to the penalties of this section, unless he be regularly registered; and such person shall not be liable to the penalties of this section, unless it shall be made to appear that he knew, or had reason to believe, that the physician giving him such permit was not regularly registered.

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