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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§422d Monuments, Etc., Protected

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LX — NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS › § 422d

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

People must not, unless the Secretary of the Interior gives permission, destroy, deface, damage, remove, or take monuments, statues, memorials, works of art, fences, railings, enclosures, markers, trees, shrubs, timber, battle relics, or other park features, nor hunt inside the park. If a person is found guilty by a justice of the peace in Pender County, North Carolina, they must pay a fine of $5 to $50, set by the justice depending on how serious it was. Half the fine goes to the park and half goes to the informer. The fine is collected the same way similar fines were on June 2, 1926.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §422d

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If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the Interior, destroy, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column, statues, memorial structures, or work of art, which shall be placed upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other mark for the protection or ornamentation of said park, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, brush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park, or shall cut down or remove or fell any timber, battle relic, tree, or tree growing upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof before any justice of the peace of the county of Pender, State of North Carolina, shall, for each and every offense, forfeit and pay a fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50, one-half for the use of the park and the other half to the informer, to be enforced and recovered before such justice in like manner as fines of like nature were, on June 2, 1926, by law recoverable in the said county of Pender, State of North Carolina.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of administrative functions of park, see note set out under section 422a of this title.

Reference

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 422d

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102