§ 425g. — Protection of monuments, etc.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC425g]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
Sec. 425g. Protection of monuments, etc.
If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the
Interior, destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument,
column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected
or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall
destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other work for the
protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall
destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree,
bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down
or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or
being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, or shall
remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses
or shelter or any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly
engaged in the battles on the lands or approaches to the park, any
person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of the
peace of the county in which the offense may be committed, or any court
of competent jurisdiction, shall for each and every such 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 debts of
like nature were, on February 14, 1927, by law recoverable in the
several counties where the offense may be committed.
(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, Sec. 8, 44 Stat. 1094; 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 425 of this title.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 425, 425d, 425e, 425j, 425k
of this title.
