2014 US Code
Title 16 - Conservation (Sections 1 - 7304)
Chapter 63 - Federal Cave Resources Protection (Sections 4301 - 4310)
Sec. 4306 - Prohibited acts and criminal penalties
| Publication Title | United States Code, 2012 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 63 - FEDERAL CAVE RESOURCES PROTECTION Sec. 4306 - Prohibited acts and criminal penalties |
| Contains | section 4306 |
| Date | 2014 |
| Laws In Effect As Of Date | January 5, 2015 |
| Positive Law | No |
| Disposition | standard |
| Source Credit | Pub. L. 100-691, §7, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4549. |
| Statutes at Large Reference | 102 Stat. 4549 |
| Public and Private Law | Public Law 100-691 |
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(1) Any person who, without prior authorization from the Secretary knowingly destroys, disturbs, defaces, mars, alters, removes or harms any significant cave or alters the free movement of any animal or plant life into or out of any significant cave located on Federal lands, or enters a significant cave with the intention of committing any act described in this paragraph shall be punished in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.
(2) Any person who possesses, consumes, sells, barters or exchanges, or offers for sale, barter or exchange, any cave resource from a significant cave with knowledge or reason to know that such resource was removed from a significant cave located on Federal lands shall be punished in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.
(3) Any person who counsels, procures, solicits, or employs any other person to violate any provisions of this subsection shall be punished in accordance with section 1 (b) of this section.
(4) Nothing in this section shall be deemed applicable to any person who was in lawful possession of a cave resource from a significant cave prior to November 18, 1988.
(b) PunishmentThe punishment for violating any provision of subsection (a) of this section shall be imprisonment of not more than one year or a fine in accordance with the applicable provisions of title 18, or both. In the case of a second or subsequent violation, the punishment shall be imprisonment of not more than 3 years or a fine in accordance with the applicable provisions of title 18, or both.
(Pub. L. 100–691, §7, Nov. 18, 1988, 102 Stat. 4549.)
1 So in original. Probably should be "subsection".
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