§ 403c-3. — Criminal offenses concerning hunting, fishing, and property.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC403c-3]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XLVI--SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 403c-3. Criminal offenses concerning hunting, fishing, and
property
All hunting or the killing, wounding, or capturing at any time of
any wild bird or animal, except dangerous animals when it is necessary
to prevent them from destroying human lives or inflicting personal
injury, is prohibited within the limits of said park; nor shall any fish
be taken out of any of the waters of the said park, in any other way
than by hook and line, and then only at such seasons and at such times
and in such manner as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior.
The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such general rules
and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper for the management
and care of the park and for the protection of the property therein,
especially for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber,
mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonderful objects within said
park, and for the protection of the animals and birds in the park from
capture or destruction, and to prevent their being frightened or driven
from the said park; and he shall make rules and regulations governing
the taking of fish from the streams or lakes in the said park.
Possession within said park of the dead bodies or any part thereof of
any wild bird or animal shall be prima facie evidence that the person or
persons having same are guilty of violating this Act. Any person or
persons, or stage or express company, or railway company, who knows or
has reason to believe that they were taken or killed contrary to the
provisions of this Act, and who receives for transportation any of said
animals, birds, or fish so killed, caught, or taken, or who shall
violate any of the other provisions of this Act, or any rule or
regulation that may be promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior,
with reference to the management and care of the said park, or for the
protection of the property therein for the preservation from injury or
spoliation of timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or
wonderful objects within said park, or for the protection of the
animals, birds, or fish in the said park, or who shall within said park
commit any damage, injury or spoliation to or upon any building, fence,
sign, hedge, gate, guide post, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden,
crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits, natural
curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon, or
situated therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be
subject to a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment not exceeding
six months, or both, and be adjudged to pay all the costs of the
proceedings.
(Aug. 19, 1937, ch. 703, Sec. 3, 50 Stat. 701.)
References in Text
This Act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 19, 1937, which is
classified to sections 403c-1 to 403c-11 of this title. For complete
classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
