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§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

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must publish rules to manage and protect the parks. The rules must save trees, protect mineral claims made before the parks were created, preserve natural features, protect animals from capture, harm, or being driven out, set fishing rules, and remove trespassers.

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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Codification The first sentence of this section was from section 5 of the act of June 2, 1920. The last sentence of this section is from section 2 of act Oct. 1, 1890.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 61

Title 16Conservation

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60