16 U.S.C. § 430q — Offenses
submitted 92 years ago by ch. 694 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 211 words · no verdicts yet
This law bans damaging or removing the park's monuments, trees, fences, and battle relics. It also bans hunting and destroying old wartime defenses without the Secretary of the Interior's permission. Anyone convicted must pay a fine set by the judge based on the offense.
This section makes it a crime to damage or destroy things in this national battlefield park.
You cannot destroy, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statue, memorial, or piece of art that was lawfully placed in the park. You also cannot destroy or remove fences, railings, or other structures built to protect or decorate the park. The only exception is if the Secretary of the Interior gives you permission first.
You cannot damage the park's plants either. That means no cutting, hacking, stripping bark from, breaking, or otherwise injuring any tree, bush, or shrub growing in the park. You also cannot cut down, fell, or remove any timber, trees, or battle relics from the park.
Hunting inside the park is against the law.
You also cannot destroy or remove the old wartime defenses still standing in the park — things like breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other shelters that the armies built during the battles fought there or on the approaches to the park.
If you are found guilty of any of these offenses before a United States magistrate judge or court with authority over the case, you must pay a fine. The judge or court decides how large the fine is, based on how serious the offense was.
If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, enclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, or shall remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the lands or approaches to the park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof, before any United States magistrate judge or court, of the jurisdiction in which the offense may be committed, shall for each and every such offense forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the United States magistrate judge or court, according to the aggravation of the offense.
Source credit: (June 21, 1934, ch. 694, § 8, 48 Stat. 1200; Pub. L. 90–578, title IV, § 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 94–578, title III, § 319(8), Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2739; Pub. L. 101–650, title III, § 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117.)
- 1934Enacted · Act of June 21, 1934, ch. 694 · 48 Stat. 1200
- 1968Amended · Pub. L. 90-578 · 82 Stat. 1118
- 1976Amended · Pub. L. 94-578 · 90 Stat. 2739
- 1990Amended · Pub. L. 101-650 · 104 Stat. 5117
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 694 on 1934-06-21.
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