Injury to signposts and filling up or fouling water supply
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/us/usc/t43/s362
Title
43 — Public Lands
Chapter
CH11
Release
119-84
Release Date
2026-04-17
Section Text
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Whoever shall willfully or maliciously injure, destroy, deface, or remove any of said monuments or signposts, or shall willfully or maliciously fill up, render foul, or in anywise destroy or impair the utility of said springs, streams, or water holes, or shall willfully or maliciously interfere with said monuments, signposts, streams, springs, or water holes, or the purposes for which they are maintained and used, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(Aug. 21, 1916, ch. 360, § 3, 39 Stat. 518.)
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