16 U.S.C. § 422d : US Code - Section 422D: Monuments, etc., protected

Search 16 U.S.C. § 422d : US Code - Section 422D: Monuments, etc., protected

If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the
Interior, destroy, deface, injure, or remove any monument, column,
statues, memorial structures, or work of art, which shall be placed
upon the grounds of the park by lawful authority, or shall destroy
or remove any fence, railing, inclosure, or other mark for the
protection or ornamentation of said park, or any portion thereof,
or shall destroy, cut, hack, bark, break down, or otherwise injure
any tree, brush, or shrubbery that may be growing upon said park,
or shall cut down or remove or fell any timber, battle relic, tree,
or tree growing upon said park, or hunt within the limits of the
park, any person so offending and found guilty thereof before any
justice of the peace of the county of Pender, State of North
Carolina, shall, for each and every offense, forfeit and pay a
fine, in the discretion of the justice, according to the
aggravation of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $50,
one-half for the use of the park and the other half to the
informer, to be enforced and recovered before such justice in like
manner as fines of like nature were, on June 2, 1926, by law
recoverable in the said county of Pender, State of North Carolina.