FEDERAL · 16 U.S.C. · Chapter SUBCHAPTER XII—MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK

Removal, disturbance, destruction, or molestation of ruins

16 U.S.C. § 114
Title16Conservation
ChapterSUBCHAPTER XII—MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK

This text of 16 U.S.C. § 114 (Removal, disturbance, destruction, or molestation of ruins) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering United States primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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16 U.S.C. § 114.

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Any person or persons who may otherwise in any manner willfully remove, disturb, destroy, or molest any of the ruins, mounds, buildings, graves, relics, or other evidences of an ancient civilization or other property from said park shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any court having jurisdiction of such offenses shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than twelve months, or such person or persons may be fined and imprisoned, at the discretion of the judge, and shall be required to restore the property disturbed, if possible.

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History

(June 29, 1906, ch. 3607, §4, 34 Stat. 617.)

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