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16 U.S.C. § 171 — Forfeitures and seizures of guns, traps, teams, etc.

submitted 112 years ago by ch. 264 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 137 words · no verdicts yet

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Guns, traps, and vehicles used to illegally hunt in the park can be seized and held during prosecution. If the person is convicted, those items are permanently forfeited to the United States as an extra penalty. The Secretary of the Interior controls how forfeited property is handled.

If someone uses guns, traps, teams, horses, or any other kind of transportation to kill, trap, snare, or capture wild animals or birds inside the park, those items can be taken away by park officers. Officers may seize this property and hold it while the person faces prosecution for breaking the law. If the person is convicted, the seized guns, traps, teams, horses, or other transportation are permanently forfeited to the United States. This forfeiture is an extra penalty on top of any other punishment for breaking the law. The Secretary of the Interior controls what happens to this forfeited property and must keep records of it.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

All guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation of every nature or description, used by any person or persons within said park limits when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such wild beasts, birds, or wild animals shall be forfeited to the United States and may be seized by the officers in said park and held pending the prosecution of any person or persons arrested under charge of violating the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction under this Act of such person or persons using said guns, traps, teams, horses, or other means of transportation, such forfeiture shall be adjudicated as a penalty in addition to the other punishment provided under this Act. Such forfeited property shall be disposed of and accounted for by and under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.

Source credit: (Aug. 22, 1914, ch. 264, § 5, 38 Stat. 700.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1914Enacted · Act of Aug. 22, 1914, ch. 264 · 38 Stat. 700

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