Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection
§ 682. Game refuge in Ozark National Forest
Statutory text
The President of the United States is authorized to designate such national forest lands within the Ozark National Forest, within the State of Arkansas, as should, in his discretion, be set aside for the protection of game animals, birds, or fish; and, except under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe, it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, catch, trap, willfully disturb, or kill any kind of game animal, game or nongame bird, or fish, or take the eggs of any such bird on any lands so set aside, or in or on the waters thereof.
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. 68–376 · 43 Stat. 668
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 682
Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 376, 43 Stat. 1091
Source evidence
Code source credit
Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 376, 43 Stat. 1091
0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments1945–1948 · 2 rounds
1948
Act , struck out penal provisions (see section 41 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure), and inserted provision relating to the unlawfulness in hunting, catching, etc., game animals, etc., under rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture.
1945
Act , struck out last sentence which read “No lands within the present limits of the fourth congressional district shall be included in such designations.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date of 1948 Amendment
Section 20 of act , provided that the amendment made by that act is effective .
Executive Documents
Presidential Designation
Lands comprising the Ozark National Game Refuge were designated by Proclamations of (45 Stat. 2953), and (49 Stat. 3478).
Credits
1925–1948 · 3 acts
- 1925Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 376, 43 Stat. 1091
- 1945Aug. 11, 1945, ch. 365, 59 Stat. 531
- 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 12, 62 Stat. 861.
Show as published
(Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 376, 43 Stat. 1091; Aug. 11, 1945, ch. 365, 59 Stat. 531; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 12, 62 Stat. 861.)