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16 U.S.C. § 123 (CONSERVATION)
§ 123. Settlement, residence, lumbering, or business within park punishable; admission of visitors
It shall be unlawful for any person to establish any settlement or residence within Crater Lake National Park, or to engage in any lumbering, or other enterprise or business occupation therein, or to enter therein for any speculative purpose whatever, and any person violating the provisions of this section or sections 121 and 122 of this title, or the rules and regulations established thereunder, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall further be liable for all destruction of timber or other property of the United States in consequence of any such unlawful act. Crater Lake National Park shall be open, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, to all scientists, excursionists, and pleasure seekers. Restaurant and hotel keepers, upon application to the Secretary of the Interior, may be permitted by him to establish places of entertainment within the Crater Lake National Park for the accommodation of visitors, at places and under regulations fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, and not otherwise.
(May 22, 1902, ch. 820, § 3, 32 Stat. 203; Pub. L. 94–429, § 3(a), Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1342.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Amendments
text: 1976—Pub. L. 94–429 struck out provision that the park be open, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, to the location and working of mining claims.
heading: Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
heading: Mining Rights Existing Prior to 1976 Amendment
text: Section 3 of Pub. L. 94–429 provided in part that this section was amended as indicated in order to close area to entry and location under the Mining Law of 1872, subject to valid existing rights.
16 U.S.C. § 124 (CONSERVATION)
§ 124. Jurisdiction by the United States; fugitives from justice
Sole and exclusive jurisdiction is assumed by the United States over the territory embraced within the Crater Lake National Park, saving, however, to the State of Oregon the right to serve civil or criminal process within the limits of the aforesaid park in suits or prosecution for or on account of rights acquired, obligations incurred, or crimes committed in said State but outside of said park, and saving further to the said State the right to tax persons and corporations, their franchises and property, on the lands included in said park. All the laws applicable to places under the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the United States shall have force and effect in said park. All fugitives from justice taking refuge in said park shall be subject to the same laws as refugees from justice found in the State of Oregon.
(Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 1, 39 Stat. 521.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Codification
text: A provision accepting the act of the Oregon Legislature which ceded to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over the territory referred to in this section has been omitted as executed.
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§§ 125, 126. Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, eff. Sept. 1, 1948
text: Section 125, act Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 2, 39 Stat. 522, related to inclusion of park in judicial district. See section 117 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
text: Section 126, act Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 3, 39 Stat. 522, related to offenses. See section 13 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.
16 U.S.C. § 127 (CONSERVATION)
§ 127. Hunting and fishing; rules and regulations; punishment
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 injury, is prohibited within the limits of said park; nor shall any fish be taken out of the waters of the park in any other way than by hook and line, and then only at such seasons and in such times and manner as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such 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 August 21, 1916, 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 park; and he shall make rules and regulations governing the taking of fish from the streams or lakes in the 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 the 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 park or for the protection of the property therein, for the preservation from injury or spoliation of timber, mineral deposits other than those legally located prior to August 21, 1916, natural curiosities, or wonderful objects within said park, or for the protection of the animals, birds, or fish in the park, or who shall within said park commit any damage, injury, or spoliation to or upon any building, fence, hedge, gate, guidepost, tree, wood, underwood, timber, garden, crops, vegetables, plants, land, springs, mineral deposits other than those legally located prior to August 21, 1916, natural curiosities, or other matter or thing growing or being thereon or situate 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 costs of the proceedings.
(Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 4, 39 Stat. 522.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: References in Text
text: This Act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 21, 1916, which is classified to sections 124 to 134 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
16 U.S.C. § 128 (CONSERVATION)
§ 128. Forfeitures or seizures of guns, traps, teams, etc., for violating regulations
All guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation of every nature or description used by any person or persons within said park limits when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such wild beasts, birds, or animals shall be forfeited to the United States and may be seized by the officers in said park and held pending the prosecution of any person or persons arrested under charge of violating the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction under this Act of such person or persons using said guns, traps, teams, horses, or other means of transportation, such forfeiture shall be adjudicated as a penalty in addition to the other punishment provided in this Act. Such forfeited property shall be disposed of and accounted for by and under the authority of the Secretary of the Interior.
(Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 5, 39 Stat. 523.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: References in Text
text: This Act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 21, 1916, which is classified to sections 124 to 134 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
16 U.S.C. § 129...134 (CONSERVATION)
§§ 129 to 134. Repealed. June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 39, 62 Stat. 992, eff. Sept. 1, 1948
text: Section 129, acts Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 6, 39 Stat. 523; June 25, 1935, ch. 309, § 1, 49 Stat. 422; June 28, 1938, ch. 778, § 1, 52 Stat. 1213, related to appointment and jurisdiction of commissioner. See provisions covering United States magistrate judges under section 631 et seq. of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
text: Section 130, act Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 7, 39 Stat. 523, related to arrests by commissioner [now magistrate judge].
text: Section 131, act Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 8, 39 Stat. 523, related to issuance of process.
text: Section 132, acts Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 9, 39 Stat. 523; June 25, 1935, ch. 309, § 2, 49 Stat. 422, related to residence of commissioner [now magistrate judge].
text: Section 132a, act June 25, 1935, ch. 309, § 3, 49 Stat. 422, related to salary of commissioner [now magistrate judge].
text: Section 133, act Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 11, 39 Stat. 524, related to disposition of fines and costs.
text: Section 134, act Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 368, § 10, 39 Stat. 524, related to accounting for fees, costs, and expenses.
16 U.S.C. § 141 (CONSERVATION)
§ 141. Establishment; boundaries
There are reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal, and set apart as a public park, all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land lying and being situate in the State of South Dakota and within the boundaries particularly described as follows: Beginning at the southeast corner of section 13, township 6 south, range 5 east, Black Hills meridian, South Dakota; thence westerly to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section 16, said township; thence northerly along the quarter-section lines to the northwest corner of the northeast quarter of section 4, said township; thence easterly to the southwest corner of section 34, township 5 south, range 5 east; thence northerly to the northwest corner of said section; thence easterly to the northeast corner of section 31, township 5 south, range 6 east; thence southerly along the section lines to the southeast corner of section 7, township 6 south, range 6 east; thence westerly to the southwest corner of said section; thence southerly to the southeast corner of section 13, township 6 south, range 5 east, the place of beginning. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect any valid rights acquired in connection with any of the lands embraced within the limits of said park which shall be known as Wind Cave National Park.
(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, §§ 1, 2, 32 Stat. 765.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Codification
text: This section, with the exception of the last clause, which names the park, was from section 1 of act Jan. 9, 1903. The last clause was taken from section 2 of said act which section is also the source of section 142 of this title.
16 U.S.C. § 141b (CONSERVATION)
§ 141b. Wind Cave National Game Preserve transferred to park
Effective July 1, 1935, the Wind Cave National Game Preserve in the State of South Dakota is abolished, and all the property, real or personal, comprising the same is transferred to and made a part of the Wind Cave National Park and the same shall be administered by the Secretary of the Interior as a part of said park, subject to all laws and regulations applicable thereto, for the purposes expressed in section 672 of this title, establishing said game preserve.
(June 15, 1935, ch. 261, title VI, § 601, 49 Stat. 383.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: References in Text
text: Section 672 of this title, referred to in text, was omitted from the Code.
16 U.S.C. § 141c (CONSERVATION)
§ 141c. Disposal of surplus buffalo and elk
(a) The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and under regulations to be prescribed by him, to sell or otherwise dispose of the surplus buffalo and elk of the Wind Cave National Park herd.
(b) All moneys received from the sale of any such surplus animals, or products thereof, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts.
(June 16, 1938, ch. 459, §§ 1, 2, 52 Stat. 708.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Codification
text: Subsecs. (a) and (b) of this section constitute sections 1 and 2, respectively, of act June 16, 1938.
16 U.S.C. § 142 (CONSERVATION)
§ 142. Control; regulations
Wind Cave National Park shall be under the exclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be to prescribe such rules and regulations and establish such service as he may deem necessary for the care and management of the same.
(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, § 2, 32 Stat. 765.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Codification
text: This section is a part of section 2 of act Jan. 9, 1903. The other part of section 2 of said act is classified to section 141 of this title. See note under section 141.
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§§ 143, 144. Repealed. Dec. 16, 1930, ch. 14, § 1, 46 Stat. 1028
text: Sections, act Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, §§ 3, 4, 32 Stat. 765, related to leases of cavern and lands, and provided for disposition of funds from rentals or leases.
16 U.S.C. § 145 (CONSERVATION)
§ 145. Exchange of lands
In cases in which a tract covered by an unperfected bona fide claim or by a patent is included within the limits of this park, the settler or owner thereof may, if he desires to do so, relinquish the tract to the Government and secure other land, outside of the park, in accordance with the provisions of the law relating to the subject of such relinquishment of lands in national forests in the State of South Dakota.
(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, § 5, 32 Stat. 766.)
16 U.S.C. § 146 (CONSERVATION)
§ 146. Offenses within park
All persons who shall unlawfully intrude upon said park, or who shall without permission appropriate any object therein or commit unauthorized injury or waste in any form whatever upon the lands or other public property therein, or who shall violate any of the rules and regulations prescribed hereunder, shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not more than $1,000 or be imprisoned for a period not more than twelve months, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.
(Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, § 6, 32 Stat. 766.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: References in Text
text: Hereunder, referred to in text, means act Jan. 9, 1903, ch. 63, 32 Stat. 765, which is classified to sections 141, and 142 to 146 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
16 U.S.C. § 153 (CONSERVATION)
§ 153. Existing laws unaffected by admission of Oklahoma; rights and jurisdiction of United States; indemnity school lands
Nothing in the Act of June 16, 1906, chapter 3335, Thirty-fourth Statutes, page 267, entitled, “An Act to enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States * * *”, shall repeal or affect any Act of Congress relating to the Sulphur Springs Reservation as defined on June 16, 1906, or as may be thereafter defined or extended, or the power of the United States over it or any other lands embraced in the State hereafter set aside by Congress as a national park, game preserve, or for the preservation of objects of archaeological or ethnological interest; and nothing contained in said Act shall interfere with the rights and ownership of the United States in any land hereafter set aside by Congress as national park, game preserve, or other reservation, or in the said Sulphur Springs Reservation, as it was on June 16, 1906, or may be defined or extended by law; but exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, shall be exercised by the United States, which shall have exclusive control and jurisdiction over the same; but nothing in this section contained shall be construed to prevent the service within said Sulphur Springs Reservation or national parks, game preserves, and other reservations hereafter established by law, of civil and criminal processes lawfully issued by the authority of said State, and said State shall not be entitled to select indemnity school lands for the thirteenth, sixteenth, thirty-third, and thirty-sixth sections that may be embraced within the metes and bounds of the national park, game preserve, and other reservation or the said Sulphur Springs Reservation, as defined on June 16, 1906, or may be thereafter defined.
(June 16, 1906, ch. 3335, § 7, 34 Stat. 272; June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837; Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, Mar. 17, 1976, 90 Stat. 236.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: Codification
text: Section is from a proviso annexed to section 7 of act June 16, 1906.
heading: Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
heading: Change of Name
text: Platt National Park designation repealed and areas formerly known as Platt National Park made an integral part of Chickasaw National Recreation Area by Pub. L. 94–235, § 5. See section 460hh–4 of this title.
heading: Repeals
text: Pub. L. 94–235, § 5, repealed act June 29, 1906, No. 42, 34 Stat. 837, cited as a credit to this section, under which the name of the reservation at the village of Sulphur established by section 151 of this title, known as Sulphur Springs Reservation, had been renamed Platt National Park in honor of Orville Hitchcock Platt, former senator from Connecticut “and for many years a member of the Committee on Indian Affairs, in recognition of his distinguished services to the Indians and to the country.”
16 U.S.C. § 156 (CONSERVATION)
§ 156. Establishment; boundaries
When title to such lands as may be determined by the Secretary of the Interior as necessary for recreational park purposes within the boundaries to be determined by him within the area of approximately one million five hundred thousand acres, in the counties of Brewster and Presidio, in the State of Texas, known as the “Big Bend” area, shall have been vested in the United States, such lands shall be established, dedicated, and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be known as the “Big Bend National Park”: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall be secured by the United States only by public and private donations.
(June 20, 1935, ch. 283, § 1, 49 Stat. 393.)
16 U.S.C. § 157 (CONSERVATION)
§ 157. Acquisition of lands
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion and upon submission of evidence of title satisfactory to him, to accept, on behalf of the United States, title to the lands referred to in section 156 of this title as may be deemed by him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes: Provided, That no land for the Big Bend National Park shall be accepted until exclusive jurisdiction over the entire area, in form satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been ceded by the State of Texas to the United States.
(June 20, 1935, ch. 283, § 2, 49 Stat. 393.)
16 U.S.C. § 157a (CONSERVATION)
§ 157a. Additional lands; aggregate cost
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire, in such manner as he shall consider to be in the public interest, any land or interests in land situated within sections 15, 22, 27, 34, block 234, Brewster County, Texas, which he shall consider to be suitable for addition to the Big Bend National Park: Provided, however, That the aggregate cost to the Federal Government of properties acquired hereafter and under the provisions hereof shall not exceed the sum of $10,000. Properties acquired pursuant to this section shall become a part of the park upon acquisition of title thereto by the United States.
(Aug. 30, 1949, ch. 522, 63 Stat. 679.)
16 U.S.C. § 157b (CONSERVATION)
§ 157b. Additional lands within park boundaries
Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to procure, in such manner as he may consider to be in the public interest, the remaining non-Federal land and interests in land within the boundaries of Big Bend National Park.
(Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 385, 67 Stat. 497.)
16 U.S.C. § 157c (CONSERVATION)
§ 157c. Boundary revision; acquisition of lands and interests; authorization of appropriations
The boundary of the Big Bend National Park in the State of Texas is hereby revised to include the lands and interests therein within the area generally depicted on the map entitled “Big Bend National Park, Boundary Additions”, numbered 155/80,019–A and dated June 1980 which shall be on file and available for public inspection in the local and Washington, District of Columbia, Offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Secretary is authorized to acquire the lands and interests therein added to the park by this section by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, except that lands and interests therein owned by the State of Texas or any political subdivision thereof may be acquired only by donation or exchange. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section, but not to exceed $1,500,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests therein.
(Pub. L. 96–607, title IV, § 401, Dec. 28, 1980, 94 Stat. 3539.)
16 U.S.C. § 157d (CONSERVATION)
§ 157d. Additional boundary revision; acquisition of lands and interests
The boundaries of Big Bend National Park, established by the Act of June 20, 1935 (16 U.S.C. 156), are hereby revised to include the lands and interests therein, together with all improvements thereon, within the area comprising approximately sixty-seven thousand one hundred and twenty-five acres as generally depicted on the map entitled “Harte Ranch Addition, Big Bend National Park”, numbered 155/80,044 and dated September 1987. Such map shall be on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire lands and interests therein, together with all improvements thereon, within the addition described in such map by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange.
(Pub. L. 100–201, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1328.)
heading: Editorial Notes
heading: References in Text
text: Act of June 20, 1935, referred to in text, is act June 30, 1935, ch. 283, 49 Stat. 393, which is classified to sections 156, 157, and 158 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.