Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§123 Settlement, Residence, Lumbering, or Business Within Park Punishable; Admission of Visitors
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XIV — CRATER LAKE NATIONAL PARK › § 123
Summary
No one may live, set up a settlement, cut timber, run a business, or enter Crater Lake National Park to speculate. People who break these rules can be fined up to $500, jailed up to one year, and must pay for any U.S. timber or other government property they damage. Scientists and other visitors may enter under rules the Secretary sets, and restaurants or hotels may apply to the Secretary to be allowed to operate in approved spots.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §123
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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 section 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.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Amendments
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.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Mining Rights Existing Prior to 1976 Amendment 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.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 123
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102