2008 US Code
Title 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 6 - GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION
Sec. 682 - Game refuge in Ozark National Forest
View MetadataPublication Title | United States Code, 2006 Edition, Supplement 2, Title 16 - CONSERVATION |
Category | Bills and Statutes |
Collection | United States Code |
SuDoc Class Number | Y 1.2/5: |
Contained Within | Title 16 - CONSERVATION CHAPTER 6 - GAME AND BIRD PRESERVES; PROTECTION Sec. 682 - Game refuge in Ozark National Forest |
Contains | section 682 |
Date | 2008 |
Laws in Effect as of Date | January 5, 2009 |
Positive Law | No |
Disposition | standard |
Source Credit | Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 376, 43 Stat. 1091; Aug. 11, 1945, ch. 365, 59 Stat. 531; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, §12, 62 Stat. 861. |
Statutes at Large References | 43 Stat. 1091 45 Stat. 2953 49 Stat. 3478 59 Stat. 531 62 Stat. 861 |
§682. Game refuge in Ozark National Forest
The President of the United States is authorized to designate such national forest lands within the Ozark National Forest, within the State of Arkansas, as should, in his discretion, be set aside for the protection of game animals, birds, or fish; and, except under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time prescribe, it shall be unlawful for any person to hunt, catch, trap, willfully disturb, or kill any kind of game animal, game or nongame bird, or fish, or take the eggs of any such bird on any lands so set aside, or in or on the waters thereof.
(Feb. 28, 1925, ch. 376, 43 Stat. 1091; Aug. 11, 1945, ch. 365, 59 Stat. 531; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, §12, 62 Stat. 861.)
Amendments1948—Act June 25, 1948, struck out penal provisions (see section 41 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure), and inserted provision relating to the unlawfulness in hunting, catching, etc., game animals, etc., under rules and regulations of the Secretary of Agriculture.
1945—Act Aug. 11, 1945, struck out last sentence which read “No lands within the present limits of the fourth congressional district shall be included in such designations.”
Effective Date of 1948 AmendmentSection 20 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.
Presidential DesignationLands comprising the Ozark National Game Refuge were designated by Proclamations of June 13, 1928 (45 Stat. 2953), and Oct. 25, 1935 (49 Stat. 3478).
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