§ 21. — Establishment; boundaries; trespassers.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC21]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER V--YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 21. Establishment; boundaries; trespassers
The tract of land in the States of Montana and Wyoming, lying near
the headwaters of the Yellowstone River and described as follows, to
wit, commencing at the junction of Gardiner's River, with the
Yellowstone River, and running east to the meridian passing ten miles to
the eastward of the most eastern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence south
along said meridian to the parallel of latitude passing ten miles south
of the most southern point of Yellowstone Lake; thence west along said
parallel to the meridian passing fifteen miles west of the most western
point of Madison Lake; thence north along said meridian to the latitude
of the junction of the Yellowstone and Gardiner's Rivers; thence east to
the place of beginning, is reserved and withdrawn from settlement,
occupancy, or sale under the laws of the United States, and dedicated
and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and
enjoyment of the people; and all persons who locate, or settle upon, or
occupy any part of the land thus set apart as a public park, except as
provided in section 22 of this title, shall be considered trespassers
and removed therefrom.
(R.S. Sec. 2474.)
Codification
R.S. Sec. 2474 derived from act Mar. 1, 1872, ch. 24, Sec. 1, 17
Stat. 32.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 21b of this title.
