[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC726]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 8--UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE AND FISH REFUGE
Sec. 726. Acts prohibited in refuge; commercial fishing
No person shall, except in accordance with regulations prescribed by
the Secretary of the Interior in respect of wild birds, game animals,
fur-bearing animals, wild flowers, and aquatic plants, or in respect of
fish and other aquatic-animal life--
(a) Enter the refuge for any purpose; or
(b) Disturb, injure, kill, or remove, or attempt to disturb, injure,
kill, or remove any wild bird, game animal, fur-bearing animal, fish, or
other aquatic-animal life, on the refuge; or
(c) Remove from the refuge, or injure or destroy thereon any flower,
plant, tree, or other natural growth, or the nest or egg of any wild
bird; or
(d) Injure or destroy any notice, sign board, fence, building, or
other property of the United States thereon.
Commercial fishing may, however, be conducted in the waters of this
refuge under regulation by the Secretary of the Interior.
(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, Secs. 6, 7, 43 Stat. 651; 1939 Reorg. Plan No.
II, Sec. 4(e), (f), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)
Codification
Section is a combination of sections 6 and 7 of act June 7, 1924,
the last sentence only being from section 7.
Transfer of Functions
For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other
official in Department of the Interior under this chapter to Federal
Inspector, Office of Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas
Transportation System,
