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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 689b. Hunting, pursuing, capturing in Tahquitz National Game Preserve unlawful

Statutory text

On lands within the game preserve established in section 689a of this title, hunting, pursuing, poisoning, killing, or capturing by trapping, netting, or any other means, or attempting to hunt, pursue, kill, or capture any wild animals or birds for any purpose whatever upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said game preserve shall be unlawful except as hereinafter provided.

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. 69–776 § 3 · 44 Stat. 889

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 689b

    July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 3, 44 Stat. 889

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 3, 44 Stat. 889

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. On lands within the game preserve established in section Unauthorized hunting, etc., on game preserve, a misdemeanor. 2 of this Act, hunting, pursuing, poisoning, killing, or capturing by trapping, netting, or any other means, or attempting to hunt, pursue, kill, or capture any wild animals or birds for any purpose whatever upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said game preserve shall be unlawful except as hereinafter provided, and any person violating any provision of this section Punishment for. or any of the rules and regulations made under the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in any United States court, be fined in a sum not exceeding $500, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months, or shall suffer both the fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

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

1926–1948 · 2 acts
  1. 1926July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 3, 44 Stat. 889
  2. 1948June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 14, 62 Stat. 861.
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(July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 3, 44 Stat. 889; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 14, 62 Stat. 861.)

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