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18 U.S.C. § 1858

Survey marks destroyed or removed

United States · Title 18 — CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE · Status: effective

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18 U.S.C. § 1858, Survey marks destroyed or removed, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/449392
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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.

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