16 U.S.C. § 423f : US Code - Section 423F: Protection of monuments, etc.

Search 16 U.S.C. § 423f : US Code - Section 423F: Protection of monuments, etc.

If any person shall, except by permission of the Secretary of the
Interior, destroy, mutilate, deface, injure, or remove any
monument, column, statues, memorial structures, or work of art that
shall be erected or placed upon the grounds of the battlefield by
lawful authority, or shall destroy or remove any fence, railing,
inclosure, or other work for the protection or ornament of said
battlefield, or any portion thereof, or shall destroy, cut, hack,
bark, break down, or otherwise injure any tree, bush, or shrubbery
that may be growing upon said battlefield, or shall cut down or
fell or remove any timber, battle relic, tree or trees growing or
being upon said battlefield, or hunt within the limits of the
battlefield, or shall remove or destroy any breastworks,
earthworks, walls, or other defenses or shelter or any part thereof
constructed by the armies formerly engaged in the battles on the
lands or approaches to the battlefield, any person so offending and
found guilty thereof, before any United States magistrate judge or
court, justice of the peace of the county in which the offense may
be committed, or any other court of competent jurisdiction, shall
for each and every such offense forfeit and pay a fine, in the
discretion of the said United States magistrate judge or court,
justice of the peace or other court, according to the aggravation
of the offense, of not less than $5 nor more than $500, one-half
for the use of the battlefield and the other half to the informant,
to be enforced and recovered before such United States magistrate
judge or court, justice of the peace or other court, in like manner
as debts of like nature were, on July 3, 1926, by law recoverable
in the several counties where the offense may be committed.