Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 395d. Forfeiture of property used for unlawful purposes
Statutory text
All guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation of every nature or description used by any person or persons within said park limits when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such wild beasts, birds, or animals shall be forfeited to the United States and may be seized by the officers in said park and held pending the prosecution of any person or persons arrested under charge of violating the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction under this Act of such person or persons using said guns, traps, teams, horses, or other means of transportation, such forfeiture shall be adjudicated as a penalty in addition to the other punishment provided in this Act. Such forfeited property shall be disposed of and accounted for by and under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.
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. 71–200 § 5 · 46 Stat. 227
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 395d
(Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 200, § 5, 46 Stat. 228.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 200, § 5, 46 Stat. 228.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 5. That all guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation of every nature or description used by any person or persons within said park limits when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such wild beasts, birds, or animals shall be forfeited to the United States and may be seized by the officers in said park and held pending the prosecution of any person or persons arrested under charge of violating the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction under this Act of such person or persons using said guns, traps, teams, horses, or other means of transportation, such forfeiture shall be adjudicated as a penalty in addition to the other Disposal of. punishment provided in this Act. Such forfeited property shall be disposed of and accounted for by and under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, is act , which is classified to section 395 to 395j of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Designation of portion of Hawaii National Park situated on island of Hawaii as Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, effective , see section 391d of this title.
Haleakala̅ National Park
Establishment of detached portion of Hawaii National Park lying on island of Maui as Haleakala̅ National Park, effective , see section 396b of this title.
Credits
(Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 200, § 5, 46 Stat. 228.)