§ 422d. Monuments, etc., protected

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. 1926

   Pub. L. 69–448 § 5 · 44 Stat. 684

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 422d

   June 2, 1926, ch. 448, § 5, 44 Stat. 686

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   June 2, 1926, ch. 448, § 5, 44 Stat. 686

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 5. If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of War, destroy, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statues, memorial structures, or work of art, which shall be placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other mark for the protection or ornamentation of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, brush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or remove or fell any timber, battle relic, tree, or tree growing upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of Penalty imposed by a justice of the ponce of Pender County, N. C. the peace of the county of Pender, State of North Carolina, shall, for each and every offense, forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50, one half for the use of the park and t he other half to the informer, to be enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as lines of like nature are now by law recoverable in the said county of Pender, State of North Carolina.

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