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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 681. Erection of fence by South Dakota for game animal and bird refuge

Statutory text

The State of South Dakota is authorized and permitted to erect and maintain a good, substantial fence inclosing in whole or in part such areas as may be designated and set aside by the President under the authority of section 680 of this title. The State shall erect and maintain such gates in this fence as may be required by the authorized agents of the Federal Government in the administration of the National forest lands embraced therein, or to provide ingress and egress to persons occupying lands within said inclosure. The right of the State to maintain said fence shall continue so long as the area designated by the President shall be given protection by the laws of the State of South Dakota as a game refuge.

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. 68–326 § 2 · 43 Stat. 634

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 681

    (June 7, 1924, ch. 326, § 2, 43 Stat. 634.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (June 7, 1924, ch. 326, § 2, 43 Stat. 634.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. That the State of South Dakota is hereby authorized and permitted to erect and maintain a good, substantial fence inclosing in whole or in part such areas as may be designated and set aside by the President under the authority of section 1 hereof. The State Gates, etc., required. shall erect and maintain such gates in this fence as may be required by the authorized agents of the Federal Government in the administration of the national-forest lands embraced therein, or to provide ingress and egress to persons occupying lands within said inclosure. Condition. The right of the State to maintain said fence shall continue so long as the area designated by the President shall be given protection by the laws of the State of South Dakota as a game refuge.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(June 7, 1924, ch. 326, § 2, 43 Stat. 634.)

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