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Title 24USC / Chapter VII

Chapter 7 National Cemeteries

§286 Penalty for defacing cemeteries

Every person who willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any monument, gravestone or other structure, or who willfully destroys, cuts, breaks, injures, or removes any tree, shrub, or plant within the limits of the any national cemetery shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not less than $25, and not more than $100, or by imprisonment for not less than fifteen days, and not more than sixty. The superintendent in charge of any national cemetery is authorized to arrest forthwith any person engaged in committing any misdemeanor prohibited in this section, and to bring such person before any United States commissioner or judge of any district court of the United States within any State or district where any of the cemeteries are situated, for the purpose of holding such person to answer for such misdemeanor, and then and there shall make complaint in due form.

(R.S. §4881; act Mar. 3, 1911, ch. 231, §291, 36 Stat. 1167; Repealed. Pub. L. 93–43, §7(a)(1), (13)–(18), (42), (44)–(46), June 18, 1973, 87 Stat. 82, 83, 85; eff. Sept. 1, 1973; See section 901 of Title 38, Veterans' Benefits)