Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection
§ 676. Hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing game on Norbeck Wildlife Preserve unlawful
Statutory text
When such areas have been designated as provided for in section 675 of this title, hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of game animals and birds upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said areas shall be unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the Secretary of Agriculture. It is the purpose of this section to protect from trespass the public lands of the United States and the game animals and birds which may be thereon, and not to interfere with the operation of the local game laws as affecting private or State lands.
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. 66–247 · 41 Stat. 986
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 676
June 5, 1920, ch. 247, §§ 2, 3, 41 Stat. 986
Source evidence
Code source credit
June 5, 1920, ch. 247, §§ 2, 3, 41 Stat. 986
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Codification
First sentence of section is from section 2 and the last from section 3 of act .
Amendments
1948—Act , struck out penal provisions. See section 41 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1948 Amendment
Section 20 of act , provided that the amendment made by that act is effective .
Credits
1920–1948 · 2 acts
- 1920June 5, 1920, ch. 247, §§ 2, 3, 41 Stat. 986
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 11, 62 Stat. 860.
Show as published
(June 5, 1920, ch. 247, §§ 2, 3, 41 Stat. 986; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 11, 62 Stat. 860.)