§ 123. — Settlement, residence, lumbering, or business within park punishable; admission of visitors.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC123]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XIV--CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 123. Settlement, residence, lumbering, or business within
park punishable; admission of visitors
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish any settlement or
residence within Crater Lake National Park, or to engage in any
lumbering, or other enterprise or business occupation therein, or to
enter therein for any speculative purpose whatever, and any person
violating the provisions of this section or sections 121 and 122 of this
title, or the rules and regulations established thereunder, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment for not
more than one year, and shall further be liable for all destruction of
timber or other property of the United States in consequence of any such
unlawful act. Crater Lake National Park shall be open, under such
regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to all
scientists, excursionists, and pleasure seekers. Restaurant and hotel
keepers, upon application to the Secretary of the Interior, may be
permitted by him to establish places of entertainment within the Crater
Lake National Park for the accommodation of visitors, at places and
under regulations fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and not
otherwise.
(May 22, 1902, ch. 820, Sec. 3, 32 Stat. 203; Pub. L. 94-429, Sec. 3(a),
Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1342.)
Amendments
1976--Pub. L. 94-429 struck out provision that the park be open,
under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, to the location
and working of mining claims.
Mining Rights Existing Prior to 1976 Amendment
Section 3 of Pub. L. 94-429 provided in part that this section was
amended as indicated in order to close area to entry and location under
the Mining Law of 1872, subject to valid existing rights.
