16 U.S.C. § 371: Use of free bathhouses limited

Summary

Only people who cannot afford baths and who have health problems that bathing in Hot Springs can help are allowed to use the free bathhouse at Hot Springs National Park. Before using it, a person must swear to an officer chosen by the park superintendent that they cannot pay. Lying in that oath is a misdemeanor. A guilty person can be fined between $25 and $300 and jailed for up to 60 days.

Title 16, §371

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Only persons who are without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths and are suffering from ailments for which bathing in the water of the Hot Springs National Park will afford relief or effect a cure shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the public reservation at Hot Springs, Arkansas, and before any person shall be permitted to bathe at the free bathhouse on the reservation he shall be required to make oath, before such officer duly authorized to administer oaths for general purposes as the superintendent of the Hot Springs National Park shall designate, that he is without and unable to obtain the means to pay for baths, and any person desiring to bathe at the free bathhouse on the Hot Springs National Park making a false oath as to his financial condition shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than $25 nor more than $300 and be imprisoned for not more than sixty days.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1936—Act June 26, 1936, increased fine from not more than $25 to not less than $25 nor more than $300 and maximum prison term from not more than 30 days to not more than 60 days.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Hot Springs National Park” substituted in text for “Hot Springs Reservation” pursuant to act Mar. 4, 1921.

§371 Use of Free Bathhouses Limited