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[CITE: 16USC403c-3]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
  SUBCHAPTER XLVI--SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS 
                              NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 403c-3. Criminal offenses concerning hunting, fishing, and 
        property
        
    All hunting or the killing, wounding, or capturing at any time of 
any wild bird or animal, except dangerous animals when it is necessary 
to prevent them from destroying human lives or inflicting personal 
injury, is prohibited within the limits of said park; nor shall any fish 
be taken out of any of the waters of the said park, in any other way 
than by hook and line, and then only at such seasons and at such times 
and in such manner as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior. 
The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such general rules 
and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper for the management 
and care of the park and for the protection of the property therein, 
especially for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, 
mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or wonderful objects within said 
park, and for the protection of the animals and birds in the park from 
capture or destruction, and to prevent their being frightened or driven 
from the said park; and he shall make rules and regulations governing 
the taking of fish from the streams or lakes in the said park. 
Possession within said park of the dead bodies or any part thereof of 
any wild bird or animal shall be prima facie evidence that the person or 
persons having same are guilty of violating this Act. Any person or 
persons, or stage or express company, or railway company, who knows or 
has reason to believe that they were taken or killed contrary to the 
provisions of this Act, and who receives for transportation any of said 
animals, birds, or fish so killed, caught, or taken, or who shall 
violate any of the other provisions of this Act, or any rule or 
regulation that may be promulgated by the Secretary of the Interior, 
with reference to the management and care of the said park, or for the 
protection of the property therein for the preservation from injury or 
spoliation of timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, or 
wonderful objects within said park, or for the protection of the 
animals, birds, or fish in the said park, or who shall within said park 
commit any damage, injury or spoliation to or upon any building, fence, 
sign, hedge, gate, guide post, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden, 
crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits, natural 
curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon, or 
situated therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be 
subject to a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment not exceeding 
six months, or both, and be adjudged to pay all the costs of the 
proceedings.

(Aug. 19, 1937, ch. 703, Sec. 3, 50 Stat. 701.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 19, 1937, which is 
classified to sections 403c-1 to 403c-11 of this title. For complete 
classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
