43 U.S.C. § 362 — Injury to signposts and filling up or fouling water supply

This section makes it a crime to damage certain markers and water sources on purpose. It's illegal to willfully or maliciously injure, destroy, deface, or remove any of the monuments or signposts this law protects. It's also illegal to willfully or maliciously fill up, foul, or otherwise destroy or damage the usefulness of the springs, streams, or water holes this law protects. More broadly, it's illegal to willfully or maliciously interfere with any of these monuments, signposts, streams, springs, or water holes, or with the purposes they serve. Anyone who breaks these rules can be fined up to $1,000, sent to prison for up to three years, or both.