§ 43. — Sequoia National Park; rules and regulations; leases; fish and game; 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: 16USC43]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
Sec. 43. Sequoia National Park; rules and regulations; leases;
fish and game; trespassers
Sequoia National Park shall be under the exclusive control of the
Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to make and publish
such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the
care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the
preservation from injury of all timber, mineral deposits, natural
curiosities or wonders within said park, and their retention in their
natural condition. He may, in his discretion, grant leases for building
purposes for terms not exceeding thirty years of small parcels of ground
not exceeding five acres, at such places in said park as shall require
the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors. He shall
provide against the wanton destruction of the fish and game found within
said park, and against their capture or destruction, for the purposes of
merchandise or profit. He shall also cause all persons trespassing upon
the same to be removed therefrom, and, generally, shall be authorized to
take all such measures as shall be necessary or proper to fully carry
out the objects and purposes of this section and section 41 of this
title.
(Sept. 25, 1890, ch. 926, Sec. 2, 26 Stat. 478; Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408,
Sec. 3, 39 Stat. 535; Pub. L. 85-434, May 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 152.)
Codification
``Thirty years'' substituted for ``ten years'' in view of section 3
of act Aug. 25, 1916, and act May 29, 1958, which authorized the
Secretary to grant privileges, leases, and permits in the various parks
for periods not exceeding thirty years. See section 3 of this title.
As originally enacted, this section contained a further provision
that ``all of the proceeds of said leases and other revenues that may be
derived from any source connected with said park to be expended under
his [Secretary of the Interior] direction in the management of the same
and the construction of roads and paths therein''. This provision was
superseded by section 452 of this title providing for the disposition of
all revenues from the national parks.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 41, 45f of this title.
