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18 U.S.C. § 1854 — Trees boxed for pitch or turpentine

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 111 words · no verdicts yet

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This section punishes unlawfully cutting, chipping, chopping, or boxing trees to obtain pitch, turpentine, or another substance. It also punishes knowingly acquiring those substances or products made from them.

A person who cuts, chips, chops, or boxes a tree on United States land, or on land covered by an unperfected settlement, application, filing, entry, selection, or location made under United States law, to obtain pitch, turpentine, or another substance from the tree may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to one year, or both. A person who knowingly buys, trades for, or otherwise acquires that pitch, turpentine, or other substance, or an article or product made from it, may receive the same punishment.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever cuts, chips, chops, or boxes any tree upon any lands belonging to the United States, or upon any lands covered by or embraced in any unperfected settlement, application, filing, entry, selection, or location, made under any law of the United States, for the purpose of obtaining from such tree any pitch, turpentine, or other substance; or

Whoever buys, trades for, or in any manner acquires any pitch, turpentine, or other substance, or any article or commodity made from any such pitch, turpentine, or other substance, with knowledge that the same has been so unlawfully obtained—

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 788; Pub. L. 104–294, title VI, § 601(a)(8), Oct. 11, 1996, 110 Stat. 3498.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 788
  • 1996Amended · Pub. L. 104-294 · 110 Stat. 3498

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 645 on 1948-06-25.

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