§ 63. — Transportation of birds, animals, or fish; violations of statute or rules or regulations for management, care, and preservation of parks; damage or spoliation; punishment.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC63]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
Sec. 63. Transportation of birds, animals, or fish; violations
of statute or rules or regulations for management, care, and
preservation of parks; damage or spoliation; punishment
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 sections 57, 58, and 60 to 65 of
this title, 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 said sections, 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 parks, or either of them, or for the
protection of the property therein for the preservation from injury or
spoliation of timber, mineral deposits, other than those legally located
prior to the passage of the respective Acts creating and establishing
said parks, natural curiosities, or wonderful objects within said parks,
or either of them, or for the protection of the animals, birds, or fish
in the said parks, or either of them, or who shall within said parks
commit any damage, injury, spoliation to or upon any building, fence,
hedge, gate, guidepost, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden, crops,
vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits other than those
legally located prior to the passage of the respective Acts creating and
establishing said parks, natural curiosities, or other matter or thing
growing or being thereon, or situated therein, shall be subject to the
penalty provided for the violation of rules and regulations of the
Secretary of the Interior authorized by section 3 of this title.
(June 2, 1920, ch. 218, Sec. 5, 41 Stat. 732.)
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in sections 62, 64, 65 of this title.
