§ 60. Hunting or fishing prohibited

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. 1920

   Pub. L. 66–218 § 5 · 41 Stat. 731

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 60

   (June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 5, 41 Stat. 731.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 2, 1920, ch. 218, § 5, 41 Stat. 731.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 5. That all hunting or the killing, wounding, or capturing at Hunting, fishing, etc., prohibitions. any time of any wild bird or animal, except dangerous animals,when it is necessary to prevent them from destroying human lives or inflicting personal injury, is prohibited within the limits of said parks; or shall any fish be taken out of any of the waters of the said parks, or either of them, in any other way than by hook and fine, and then only at such seasons and such times and mariner as may be Regulations, etc., to be prescribed. directed by the Secretary of the Interior. That the Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such general rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper for the management and care of the park and for the protection of the property therein, especially for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits other than those legally located prior to the passage of the respective Acts creating and establishing said parks, natural curiosities or wonderful objects within said parks, and for the protection of the animals in the park from capture or destruction, and to prevent their being frightened or driven from the said parks; and he shall make rules and regulations governing the taking of fish from the Evidence of violations. streams or lakes in the said parks or either of them. Possession within said parks, or either of them, of the dead bodies or any part thereof of any wild bird or animal shall be prima facie evidence that person or persons having same are guilty of violating this Act. Penalty for violating provisions hereof, etc. Any person or persons, or stage or express company, or railway company, who knows or has reason to believe that they were taken or lulled contrary to the provisions of this Act, and who receives for transportation any of said animals, birds, or fish so killed, caught, or taken, or who shall violate any of the other provisions of this Act, or any rule or regulation that may be promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior, with reference to the management and care of the said parks, or either of them, or for the protection of the property therein for the preservation from injury or spoliation of timber, mineral deposits, other than those legally located prior to the passage of the respective Acts creating and establishing said parks, natural curiosities, or wonderful objects within said parks, or either of them, or for the protection of the animals, birds, or fish in the said parks, or either of them, or who shall within said parks commit any damage, injury, spoliation to or upon any building, fence, hedge, gate, guide post, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden, crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits other than those legally located prior to the passage of the respective Acts creating and establishing said parks, natural curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon, or situated therein, shall be subject to the penalty provided for the violation of rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior authorized by section 3 of the Act of Congress approved Vol. 39, p. 535. August 25, 1916 (Thirty-ninth Statutes, page 535), entitled “An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes,” which section is hereby amended by striking therefrom the words Punishment modified. Vol. 39, p. 535, amended. “and any violations of any of the rules and regulations authorized by this Act shall be punished as provided for in section 50 of the Act entitled ‘An Act to codify and amend the Penal Laws of the United States,’ approved March 4, 1909, as amended by section 6 of the Act of June 25, 1910 (Thirty-sixth United States Statutes at Large, page 857),” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “and any violation of any of the rules and regulations authorized by this Act shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment for not exceeding six months, or both, and be adjudged to pay all cost of Proviso. Disposal of timber, destroying injurious animals, etc., not affected. the proceedings”: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as repealing or in any way modifying the authority granted the Secretary of the Interior by said section 3 of the said Act approved August 25, 1916, to sell or dispose of timber in national parks in those cases where, in his judgment, the cutting of such timber is required in order to control the attacks of insects or diseases or otherwise conserve the scenery of the natural or historic objects in such parksand to provide for the destruction of such animals and such paint life as may be detrimental to the use of any of said parks, or the authority granted to said Secretary by the Act approved April 9, 1912, entitled “An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior Vol. 37, p. 80. Vol. 38, p. 345. to secure for the United States title to patented lands in the Yosemite National Park, and for other purposes,” as amended by the Act approved April 16, 1914.

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