§1866 — Title 18 Crimes and Criminal Procedure | U.S. Code

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Breaking federal rules about historic or archaeological items is a crime. You can be fined and must pay the court costs. If you take, dig up, damage, or destroy a historic or prehistoric ruin, monument, or other antiquity on land owned or controlled by the federal government without permission from the head of the agency in charge, you can be jailed for up to 90 days, fined, or both.

Title 18, §1866

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(a)A person that violates any of the regulations authorized by chapter 3201 of title 54 shall be fined under this title and be adjudged to pay all cost of the proceedings.

(b)A person that appropriates, excavates, injures, or destroys any historic or prehistoric ruin or monument or any other object of antiquity that is situated on land owned or controlled by the Federal Government without the permission of the head of the Federal agency having jurisdiction over the land on which the object is situated, shall be imprisoned not more than 90 days, fined under this title, or both.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 1866(a)16 U.S.C. 462(k) (last sentence)Aug. 21, 1935, ch. 593, § 2(k) (last sentence), 49 Stat. 667. 1866(b)16 U.S.C. 433June 8, 1906, ch. 3060, § 1, 34 Stat. 225. In subsection (a), the provision is transferred to title 18 to make clear that it is a criminal penalty. The words “fined under this title” are substituted for “punished by a fine of not more than $500” for consistency with chapter 227. In subsection (b), the words “fined under this title” are substituted for “fined in a sum of not more than $500” for consistency with chapter 227.

§1866 Historic, Archeologic, or Prehistoric Items and Antiquities

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Title 18, §1866

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