§ 422d. — Monuments, etc., protected.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC422d]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
Sec. 422d. Monuments, etc., protected
If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the
Interior, destroy, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column,
statues, memorial structures, or work of art, which shall be placed upon
the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove
any fence, railing, inclosure, or other mark for the protection or
ornamentation of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy,
cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, brush, or
shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or
remove or fell any timber, battle relic, tree, or tree growing upon said
park, or hunt within the limits of the park, any person so offending and
found guilty thereof before any justice of the peace of the county of
Pender, State of North Carolina, shall, for each and every offense,
forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to
the aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50,
one-half for the use of the park and the other half to the informer, to
be enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as fines of
like nature were, on June 2, 1926, by law recoverable in the said county
of Pender, State of North Carolina.
(June 2, 1926, ch. 448, Sec. 5, 44 Stat. 686; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2,
June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933.)
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under
section 422a of this title.
