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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations

§ 606. Offense for unlawful cutting on mineral lands; punishment

Statutory text

Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of sections 604 and 605 of this title, or any rules and regulations in pursuance thereof made by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $500, and to which may be added imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

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. Pub. L. 45–150 § 3 · 20 Stat. 88

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 606

    (June 3, 1878, ch. 150, § 3, 20 Stat. 89.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 3, 1878, ch. 150, § 3, 20 Stat. 89.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of Penalty. this act, or any rules and regulations in pursuance thereof made by the Secretary of the Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to which may be added imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 3, 1878, ch. 150, § 3, 20 Stat. 89.)

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