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[CITE: 16USC61]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
 
Sec. 61. Rules and regulations in parks

    In addition to the powers and duties enumerated in section 3 of this 
title, not inconsistent with this section, 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 other than those 
legally located prior to the date of passage of the respective Acts 
creating and establishing said parks, natural curiosities or wonderful 
objects within said parks, and for the protection of the animals in the 
park from capture or destruction, and to prevent their being frightened 
or driven from the said parks; and he shall make rules and regulations 
governing the taking of fish from the streams or lakes in the said parks 
or either of them. He shall cause all persons trespassing upon the same 
to be removed therefrom.

(Oct. 1, 1890, ch. 1263, Sec. 2, 26 Stat. 651; June 2, 1920, ch. 218, 
Sec. 5, 41 Stat. 732.)

                          Codification

    The first sentence of this section was from section 5 of the act of 
June 2, 1920. The first portion reading ``In addition to the powers and 
duties enumerated in section 3 of this title, not inconsistent with this 
section'' was inserted to relate this section to section 3 of this 
title, providing general powers for the Secretary of the Interior.
    The last sentence of this section is from section 2 of act Oct. 1, 
1890.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 46, 48, 51, 62, 63, 64, 65, 
471c, 471d of this title.
