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16 U.S.C. § 371 — Use of free bathhouses limited

submitted 115 years ago by ch. 200 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 171 words · no verdicts yet

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Only people who truly can't afford baths may use the free bathhouse at Hot Springs. They must also need the water to treat their illness. Before bathing there, they must swear under oath that they can't afford to pay. Lying under oath is a misdemeanor, punished by a $25–$300 fine and up to 60 days in jail.

Only people who genuinely cannot afford to pay for baths, and who are suffering from an illness that bathing in the Hot Springs National Park waters would help treat or cure, may use the free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas. Before anyone can bathe there, they must swear an oath — administered by an officer the superintendent of Hot Springs National Park designates — that they truly cannot afford to pay for baths. Anyone who lies under oath about their finances to use the free bathhouse commits a misdemeanor. If convicted, they face a fine of at least $25 and no more than $300, plus up to 60 days in jail.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Only persons who are without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths and are suffering from ailments for which bathing in the water of the Hot Springs National Park will afford relief or effect a cure shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and before any person shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the reservation he shall be required to make oath, before such officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes as the superintendent of the Hot Springs National Park shall designate, that he is without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths, and any person desiring to bathe at the free bathhouse on the Hot Springs National Park making a false oath as to his financial condition shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300 and be imprisoned for not more than sixty days.

Source credit: (Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 200, 36 Stat. 1015; Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161, § 1, 41 Stat. 1407; June 26, 1936, ch. 843, 49 Stat. 1979.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1911Enacted · Act of Mar. 2, 1911, ch. 200 · 36 Stat. 1015
  • 1921Amended · Act of Mar. 4, 1921, ch. 161 · 41 Stat. 1407
  • 1936Amended · Act of June 26, 1936, ch. 843 · 49 Stat. 1979

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 200 on 1911-03-02.

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