Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§61 Rules and Regulations in Parks
Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER VI — SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS › § 61
Summary
The Secretary of the Interior must create and publish rules to manage and protect the parks and their property. The rules cover preserving trees, mineral deposits (except ones legally claimed before the parks were created), natural features, and animals from capture, harm, or being driven out, and they set rules for fishing. Trespassers must be removed.
Full Legal Text
Title 16, §61
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The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such general rules and regulations as he may deem necessary and proper for the management and care of the park and for the protection of the property therein, especially for the preservation from injury or spoliation of all timber, mineral deposits other than those legally located prior to the passage of the respective Acts creating and establishing said parks, natural curiosities or wonderful objects within said parks, and for the protection of the animals in the park from capture or destruction, and to prevent their being frightened or driven from the said parks; and he shall make rules and regulations governing the taking of fish from the streams or lakes in the said parks or either of them. He shall cause all persons trespassing upon the same to be removed therefrom.
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Citation
16 U.S.C. § 61
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102