Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores
§ 426i. Protection of monuments, etc.
Statutory text
If any person shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the battlefield by lawful authority, or shall willfully destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said battlefield, or any portion thereof; or shall willfully destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said battlefield, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree, or trees growing or being upon such battlefield, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, or shall willfully remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter, or any part thereof, constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battle on the lands or approaches to the battlefield, any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall for each and every such offense be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100.
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. 69–374 § 10 · 44 Stat. 1399
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 426i
Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 10, 44 Stat. 1401
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 10, 44 Stat. 1401Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 10. That if any person shall willfully destroy, mutilate, Penalty for destroying, injuring, etc., property. deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall willfully destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall willfully destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree, or trees growing or being upon such park, except by permission of the Secretary’ of War, or shall willfully remove or destroy any breastworks, earth-works, walls, or other defenses or shelter, or any part thereof, constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battle on the lands or approaches to the park, any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall for each and every such offense be fined not less than $5 nor more than $100.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
“Battlefield” substituted in text for “park” in view of redesignation of Stones River National Military Park as Stones River National Battlefield by Pub. L. 86–443. See section 426l of this title.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 426 of this title.
Credits
1927–1960 · 4 acts
- 1927Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 10, 44 Stat. 1401
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2,
- 1933Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1,
- 1960Pub. L. 86–443, § 2, , 74 Stat. 82.
Show as published
(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, § 10, 44 Stat. 1401; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, § 2, ; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, § 1, ; Pub. L. 86–443, § 2, , 74 Stat. 82.)