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[CITE: 16USC425g]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 425g. 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, statue, memorial structure, or work of art that shall be erected 
or placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall 
destroy or remove any fence, railing, enclosure, or other work for the 
protection or ornament of said park, 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 park, or shall cut down 
or fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or 
being upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, 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 park, any 
person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of the 
peace of the county in which the offense may be committed, or any court 
of competent jurisdiction, shall for each and every such offense forfeit 
and pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the 
aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50, one-
half for the use of the park and the other half to the informer, to be 
enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as debts of 
like nature were, on February 14, 1927, by law recoverable in the 
several counties where the offense may be committed.

(Feb. 14, 1927, ch. 127, Sec. 8, 44 Stat. 1094; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, 
Sec. 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under 
section 425 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 425, 425d, 425e, 425j, 425k 
of this title.
