18 U.S.C. § 1858
Survey marks destroyed or removed
Whoever willfully destroys, defaces, changes, or removes to another place any section corner, quarter-section corner, or meander post, on any Government line of survey, or willfully cuts down any witness tree or any tree blazed to mark the line of a Government survey, or willfully defaces, changes, or removes any monument or bench mark of any Government survey, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1976–2023 · leading case: United States v. Jack White
United States v. Jack White (1976)
“Jack White appeals his conviction of willfully removing certain boundary-marking items 1 used by the United States Forest Service in a survey of government lands in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1858 . Violation of this statute is a petty offense.”
United States v. Kenneth M. Caudle (1995)
“18 U.S.C. § 1858 (1988). Caudle argues that the orange fiberglass boundary signs on posts he moved were not, as a matter of law, any of the things which a person is prohibited from moving by this statute.”
Lovgren v. Byrne (1986)
“Finally, we cannot say that the ALJ abused his discretion by imposing a greater penalty on Lovgren than the government had sought.”
Albers v. Hudson (2023)
“In 2011, petitioner was convicted in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan of the offense of murder for hire in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1858 (a), and he was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 120 months, to run consecutive to the sentence (9…”
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