Title 18 — Crimes and Criminal Procedure
Part I · Chapter 3 — Animals, Birds, Fish, and Plants
§ 47. Use of aircraft or motor vehicles to hunt certain wild horses or burros; pollution of watering holes
Statutory text
Whoever uses an aircraft or a motor vehicle to hunt, for the purpose of capturing or killing, any wild unbranded horse, mare, colt, or burro running at large on any of the public land or ranges shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Whoever pollutes or causes the pollution of any watering hole on any of the public land or ranges for the purpose of trapping, killing, wounding, or maiming any of the animals referred to in subsection (a) of this section shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
As used in subsection (a) of this section—
The term “aircraft” means any contrivance used for flight in the air; and
The term “motor vehicle” includes an automobile, automobile truck, automobile wagon, motorcycle, or any other self-propelled vehicle designed for running on land.
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. 86–234 § 1(a) · 73 Stat. 470
Enacted · 18 U.S.C. § 47
Added Pub. L. 86–234, § 1(a), Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 470
Source evidence
Code source credit
Added Pub. L. 86–234, § 1(a), Sept. 8, 1959, 73 Stat. 470Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
Pub. L. 103–322 title XXXIII § 330016(1)(G) · 108 Stat. 1796
Substituted · 18 U.S.C. § 47(a); 18 U.S.C. § 47(b)
Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $500”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $500”.Enacted provision · exact public law section
(G) in sections 4, 41, 42, 46, 47, 112, 154, 244, 288, 290, 336, 475, 501, 502, 755, 872, 875, 876, 877, 917, 1013, 1018, 1024, 1154, 1155, 1156, 1382, 1541, 1700, 1703, 1704, 1707, 1712, 1713, 1720, 1721, 1722, 1729, 1731, 1734, 1752, 1793, 1856, 1857, 1863, 1912, 1913, 1922, 2074, 2195, and 2511 by striking “not more than $500” each place it appears and inserting “under this title”;
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1994—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $500”.
Credits
1959–1994 · 2 acts
- 1959Added Pub. L. 86–234, § 1(a), , 73 Stat. 470
- 1994amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), , 108 Stat. 2147.
Show as published
(Added Pub. L. 86–234, § 1(a), , 73 Stat. 470; amended Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), , 108 Stat. 2147.)