§ 371. — Use of free bathhouses limited.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC371]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XL--HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 371. Use of free bathhouses limited
Only persons who are without and unable to obtain the means to pay
for baths and are suffering from ailments for which bathing in the water
of the Hot Springs National Park will afford relief or effect a cure
shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the public
reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and before any person shall be
permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the reservation he shall be
required to make oath, before such officer duly authorized to administer
oaths for general purposes as the superintendent of the Hot Springs
National Park shall designate, that he is without and unable to obtain
the means to pay for baths, and any person desiring to bathe at the free
bathhouse on the Hot Springs National Park making a false oath as to his
financial condition shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300
and be imprisoned for not more than sixty days.
(Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 200, 36 Stat. 1015; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161, Sec. 1, 41
Stat. 1407; June 26, 1936, ch. 843, 49 Stat. 1979.)
Amendments
1936--Act June 26, 1936, increased fine from not more than $25 to
not less than $25 nor more than $300 and maximum prison term from not
more than 30 days to not more than 60 days.
Change of Name
``Hot Springs National Park'' substituted in text for ``Hot Springs
Reservation'' pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1921.
