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[CITE: 16USC426i]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                 SUBCHAPTER LX--NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS
 
Sec. 426i. Protection of monuments, etc.

    If any person shall willfully 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 battlefield by 
lawful authority, or shall willfully destroy or remove any fence, 
railing, inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said 
battlefield, or any portion thereof; or shall willfully 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 
such battlefield, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, 
or shall willfully remove or destroy any breastworks, earthworks, walls, 
or other defenses or shelter, or any part thereof, constructed by the 
armies formerly engaged in the battle on the lands or approaches to the 
battlefield, any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, 
shall for each and every such offense be fined not less than $5 nor more 
than $100.

(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 374, Sec. 10, 44 Stat. 1401; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, 
Sec. 2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, Sec. 1, July 28, 1933; Pub. L. 
86-443, Sec. 2, Apr. 22, 1960, 74 Stat. 82.)

                         Change of Name

    ``Battlefield'' substituted in text for ``park'' in view of 
redesignation of Stones River National Military Park as Stones River 
National Battlefield by Pub. L. 86-443. See section 426l of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under 
section 426 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 426c, 426e, 426j, 426k, 426n 
of this title.
