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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 11 — Discovery, Development, and Marking of Water Holes, Etc., by Government

§ 362. Injury to signposts and filling up or fouling water supply

Statutory text

Whoever shall willfully or maliciously injure, destroy, deface, or remove any of said monuments or signposts, or shall willfully or maliciously fill up, render foul, or in anywise destroy or impair the utility of said springs, streams, or water holes, or shall willfully or maliciously interfere with said monuments, signposts, streams, springs, or water holes, or the purposes for which they are maintained and used, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

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. 64–360 § 3 · 39 Stat. 518

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 362

    (Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 360, § 3, 39 Stat. 518.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 360, § 3, 39 Stat. 518.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. That whoever shall willfully or maliciously injure, destroy, deface, or remove any of said monuments or signposts, or shall willfully or maliciously fill up, render foul, or in anywise destroy or impair the utility of said springs, streams, or water holes, or shall willfully or maliciously interfere with said monuments, signposts, streams, springs, or water holes, or the purposes for which they are maintained and used, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 360, § 3, 39 Stat. 518.)

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