18 U.S.C. § 1858 — Survey marks destroyed or removed

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This section criminalizes willfully damaging or moving government survey markers and cutting down trees used to mark government survey lines. The maximum imprisonment is six months.

A person who willfully destroys, defaces, changes, or moves to another place a section corner, quarter-section corner, or meander post on a Government survey line commits an offense. The same is true for willfully cutting down a witness tree or a tree marked to show a Government survey line, or willfully defacing, changing, or moving a monument or benchmark of a Government survey. The person may be fined under this title, imprisoned for up to 6 months, or both.

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Whoever willfully destroys, defaces, changes, or removes to another place any section corner, quarter-section corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or willfully cuts down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or willfully defaces, changes, or removes any monument or bench mark of any Government survey, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

Source credit: (June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 789; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(E), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2146.)

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1948Enacted · Act of June 25, 1948, ch. 645 · 62 Stat. 789
1994Amended · Pub. L. 103-322 · 108 Stat. 2146

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