16 U.S.C. § 403c–4 — Forfeiture of property used in commission of offenses

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If you illegally hunt or trap animals, birds, or fish in the park, the government can take away the guns, traps, nets, or vehicles you used. This forfeiture happens on top of any fine or jail time you get for breaking the hunting law.

If you use guns, traps, nets, seines, teams, horses, or any other kind of transportation to kill, trap, snare, take, or capture wild animals, birds, or fish inside the park, the United States can take that property away from you. Park officers may seize it right when they catch you, and hold it while you are prosecuted for breaking this law. If you are convicted, the court must order the forfeiture as an extra penalty — on top of whatever fine or jail time you get. The Secretary of the Interior decides how the forfeited property is sold or otherwise disposed of, and accounts for it.

the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

All guns, traps, nets, seines, teams, horses, or means of transportation of every nature or description, used by any person or persons within the limits of said park when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, taking, or capturing such wild beasts, birds, fish, or animals, shall be forfeited to the United States and may be seized by the officers in said park and held pending prosecution of any person or persons arrested under the charge of violating the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction under this Act of such person or persons using said guns, traps, nets, seines, teams, horses, or other means of transportation, such forfeiture shall be adjudicated as a penalty in addition to the other punishment prescribed in 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. 19, 1937, ch. 703, § 4, 50 Stat. 701.)

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1937Enacted · Act of Aug. 19, 1937, ch. 703 · 50 Stat. 701

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