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18 U.S.C. § 1857 — Fences destroyed; livestock entering

submitted 78 years ago by ch. 645 to r/title-18-CRIMES-AND-CRIMINAL-PROCEDURE · 140 words · no verdicts yet

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This section criminalizes damaging enclosures on reserved or purchased United States lands and knowingly allowing livestock to damage such lands. It does not apply to unreserved public lands.

A person commits an offense by knowingly and unlawfully breaking, opening, or destroying a gate, fence, hedge, or wall enclosing United States land reserved or purchased for public use. A person also commits an offense by driving cattle, horses, hogs, or other livestock onto such land to destroy, or where they may destroy, its grass or trees, or by knowingly allowing such livestock to enter through the enclosure where they may destroy grass, trees, or other United States property. The person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to 1 year, or both. This section does not apply to unreserved public lands.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

Whoever knowingly and unlawfully breaks, opens, or destroys any gate, fence, hedge, or wall inclosing any lands of the United States reserved or purchased for any public use; or

Whoever drives any cattle, horses, hogs, or other livestock upon any such lands for the purposes of destroying the grass or trees on said lands, or where they may destroy the said grass or trees; or

Whoever knowingly permits his cattle, horses, hogs, or other livestock to enter through any such inclosure upon any such lands of the United States, where such cattle, horses, hogs, or other livestock may or can destroy the grass or trees or other property of the United States on the said lands—

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

This section shall not apply to unreserved public lands.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 788; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(G), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 788
  • 1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2147

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

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