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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection

§ 690d. Injuries to property on Bear River Refuge; disturbance of birds, etc.; violation of regulations for use of refuge

Statutory text

No person shall take, injure, or disturb any bird, or nest or egg thereof, or injure or destroy any notice, signboard, fence, dike, ditch, dam, spillway, improvement, or other property of the United States on any area acquired or received under sections 690 to 690i of this title, or remove therefrom or cut, burn, injure, or destroy any grass or other natural growth thereon, or enter, use, or occupy the refuge for any purpose, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior: Provided, That at no time shall less than 60 per centum of the total acreage of the said refuge be maintained as an inviolate sanctuary for such migratory birds.

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. 70–413 § 5 · 45 Stat. 448

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 690d

    Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 5, 45 Stat. 449

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 5, 45 Stat. 449

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 5. That no person shall take, injure, or Prohibitions. disturb any bird, or nest or egg thereof, or injure or destroy any notice, signboard, fence, dike, ditch, dam, spillway, improvement, or other property of the United States on any area acquired or received under this Act, or remove therefrom or cut, burn, injure, or destroy any grass or other natural growth thereon, or enter, use, or occupy the refuge for any purpose, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture: Provided, That at no time shall less than Proviso. Part to be inviolate sanctuary. 60 per centum of the total acreage of the said refuge be maintained as an inviolate sanctuary for such migratory birds.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Section 690i, included within the reference to sections 690 to 690i, was omitted from the Code.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, transferred functions of Secretary of Agriculture relating to conservation of wildlife, game, and migratory birds to Secretary of the Interior.

Credits

1928–1939 · 2 acts
  1. 1928Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 5, 45 Stat. 449
  2. 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.
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(Apr. 23, 1928, ch. 413, § 5, 45 Stat. 449; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

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