16-U.S.C.-422D
§422D – Monuments, Etc., Protected
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Title 16 > Chapter 1 > Subchapter LX > Section 422d
Details
- Reference: Section 422d
- Legend: §422D – Monuments, Etc., Protected
- USCode Year: 2013
Provision Content
If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statues, memorial structures, or work of art, which shall be placed upon the grounds of the battlefield by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other mark for the protection or ornamentation of said battlefield, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, brush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said battlefield, or shall cut down or remove or fell any timber, battle relic, tree, or tree growing upon said battlefield, or hunt within the limits of the battlefield, any person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of the peace of the county of Pender, State of North Carolina, shall, for each and every 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 battlefield and the other half to the informer, to be enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as fines of like nature were, on June 2, 1926, by law recoverable in the said county of Pender, State of North Carolina.
(June 2, 1926, ch. 448, §5, 44 Stat. 686; Ex. Ord. No. 6166, §2, June 10, 1933; Ex. Ord. No. 6228, §1, July 28, 1933.)
Change of Name
Battlefield substituted in text for park on authority of Pub. L. 96–344, §12, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1136, which redesignated Moores Creek National Military Park as Moores Creek National Battlefield.
Transfer of Functions
Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 422a of this title.
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