16 U.S.C. § 114

§114. Removal, disturbance, destruction, or molestation of ruins

Edition 2020

U.S.C. Title 16 - CONSERVATION
16 U.S.C.

United States Code, 2020 Edition

Title 16 - CONSERVATION

CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES

SUBCHAPTER XII - MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK

Sec. 114 - Removal, disturbance, destruction, or molestation of ruins

From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov

§114. Removal, disturbance, destruction, or molestation of ruins

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.

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

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