Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection
§ 686. Operation of local game laws not affected
Statutory text
It is the purpose of sections 684 and 685 of this title 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, State, or Territorial 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. 58–137 § 3 · 33 Stat. 614
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 686
Jan. 24, 1905, ch. 137, § 3, 33 Stat. 614
Source evidence
Code source credit
Jan. 24, 1905, ch. 137, § 3, 33 Stat. 614Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 3. Local game laws not affected. That it is the purpose of this Act 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, State or Territorial lands.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
1905–1906 · 2 acts
- 1905Jan. 24, 1905, ch. 137, § 3, 33 Stat. 614
- 1906June 29, 1906, ch. 3593, § 3, 34 Stat. 607.
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(Jan. 24, 1905, ch. 137, § 3, 33 Stat. 614; June 29, 1906, ch. 3593, § 3, 34 Stat. 607.)