16 U.S.C. § 683
Areas set aside for protection of game and fish; unlawfully taking game or fish
The President of the United States is authorized to designate such areas on any lands which have been, or which may hereafter be, purchased by the United States under the provisions of the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, and Acts supplementary thereto and amendatory thereof, as should, in his opinion, 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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3
cases, 1940–1996 · leading case: The Swan Lake Hunting Club & the State of Mississippi v. United States, 381 F.2d 238 (5th Cir. 1967).
The Swan Lake Hunting Club & the State of Mississippi v. United States, 381 F.2d 238 (5th Cir. 1967). “16 U.S.C.A. § 683 . In a similar vein Congress has authorized restricting hunting in areas used for purposes of the Migratory Bird Conservation Act.”
Fund for Animals, Inc. v. Thomas, 932 F. Supp. 368 (D.D.C. 1996). “§ 1535 (f), and the Act of August 11, 1916, 16 U.S.C. § 683 , authorizing certain federally owned land to be set aside as game refuges.”
Chalk v. United States, 114 F.2d 207 (4th Cir. 1940). “That amendment authorized the establishment of Game Preserves and prohibited the taking of wildlife on such Preserves except under rules and regulations made by the Secretary of Agriculture.”
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