Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§682 Game refuge in Ozark National Forest
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 6— - GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION › § 682
Summary
The President can set aside parts of Ozark National Forest in Arkansas as refuges where hunting, trapping, harming wildlife or taking bird eggs is illegal unless the Agriculture Secretary permits it.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §682
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The President of the United States is authorized to designate such national forest lands within the Ozark National Forest, within the State of Arkansas, as should, in his discretion, be set aside for the protection of game animals, birds, or fish; and, except under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe, it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, catch, trap, willfully disturb, or kill any kind of game animal, game or nongame bird, or fish, or take the eggs of any such bird on any lands so set aside, or in or on the waters thereof.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1948—Act June 25, 1948, struck out penal provisions (see section 41 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure), and inserted provision relating to the unlawfulness in hunting, catching, etc., game animals, etc., under
Rules and Regulations
of the Secretary of Agriculture. 1945—Act Aug. 11, 1945, struck out last sentence which read “No lands within the present limits of the fourth congressional district shall be included in such designations.”
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1948 Amendment section 20 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.
Executive Documents
Presidential Designation Lands comprising the Ozark National Game Refuge were designated by Proclamations of June 13, 1928 (45 Stat. 2953), and Oct. 25, 1935 (49 Stat. 3478).
Reference
Citations & Metadata
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 682
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73