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[CITE: 16USC423f]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 423f. Protection of monuments, etc.

    If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the 
Interior, destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any monument, 
column, statues, memorial structures, or work of art that shall be 
erected or placed upon the grounds of the battlefield by lawful 
authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or 
other work for the protection or ornament of said battlefield, or any 
portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or 
otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon 
said battlefield, or shall cut down or fell or remove any timber, battle 
relic, tree or trees growing or being upon said battlefield, or hunt 
within the limits of the battlefield, or shall remove or destroy any 
breastworks, earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part 
thereof constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the 
lands or approaches to the battlefield, any person so offending and 
found guilty thereof before any United States magistrate judge or court, 
justice of the peace of the county in which the offense may be 
committed, or any other court of competent jurisdiction, shall for each 
and every such offense forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the 
said United States magistrate judge or court, justice of the peace, or 
other court, according to the aggravation of the offense, of not less 
than $5 nor more than $500, one-half for the use of the battlefield and 
the other half to the informant, to be enforced and recovered before 
such United States magistrate judge or court, justice of the peace or 
other court, in like manner as debts of like nature were, on July 3, 
1926, by law recoverable in the several counties where the offense may 
be committed.

(July 3, 1926, ch. 746, Sec. 7, 44 Stat. 823; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, Sec. 2, 
June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 87-603, 
Sec. 1, Aug. 24, 1962, 76 Stat. 403; Pub. L. 90-578, title IV, 
Sec. 402(b)(2), Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1118; Pub. L. 101-650, title 
III, Sec. 321, Dec. 1, 1990, 104 Stat. 5117.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Battlefield'' substituted for ``park'' wherever appearing in text, 
in view of redesignation of Petersburg National Military Park as 
Petersburg National Battlefield by Pub. L. 87-603. See section 423h-1 of 
this title.
    ``United States magistrate judge'' substituted for ``United States 
magistrate'' wherever appearing in text pursuant to section 321 of Pub. 
L. 101-650, set out as a note under section 631 of Title 28, Judiciary 
and Judicial Procedure. Previously, ``United States magistrate'' 
substituted for ``United States commissioner'' pursuant to Pub. L. 90-
578. See chapter 43 (Sec. 631 et seq.) of Title 28.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under 
section 423 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 423c, 423d, 423h-1, 423h-2 
of this title.
