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PART 2-GENERAL RULES AND REGULATIONS

2.1 Definitions.

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2.29 Disorderly conduct.

22 Preservation of public property, 2.30 Improper clothing.

natural features and curiosities.

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2.31 Abandonment of property.
2.32 Mountain summit climbing.
2.33 Reports of accidents.
2.34 Guide and elevator fees.
2.35 Travel on trails.

2.36 Travel on roads.

2.37 Automobiles.

2.38 Motor trucks and busses.
2.39 Motorcycles.

2.40 Permits.

2.41 Exceptions.
2.42 Fees.

2.43 Entrances.

2.44 Speed.

2.45 Teams.

2.46 Right-of-way.

2.47 Following vehicles.
2.48 Clutches and gears.
2.49 Lights.

2.50 Sounding horns.
251 Muffler cut-outs.

2.23 Fraudulently obtaining accommo- 2.52 Accidents; stop-overs.

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Section 2.1 Definitions. When used in this part, unless otherwise indicated

(a) The term "park" shall be construed to include National Parks, National Military Parks, and National Historical Parks.

(b) The term "monument" shall be construed to include National Monuments, Battlefield Sites, and miscellaneous memorials.

(c) The term "superintendent" shall be construed to include a custodian, caretaker, or other person in charge of a National Park, National Monument, National Military Park, National Historical Park, Battlefield Site, or miscellaneous memorial.**

*88 2.1 to 2.58, inclusive, issued under the authority contained in sec. 3, 39 Stat. 535, sec. 5, 41 Stat. 732, sec. 1, 47 Stat. 1420, 49 Stat. 2041; 16 U.S.C. 3, 9a, 16 U.S.C., Sup., 403i, E.O. 6166, June 10, 1933, as interpreted by E.O. 6228, July 28, 1933, 5 U.S.C. 132 note.

The source of §§ 2.1 to 2.58, inclusive, except for the amendment noted in the text, is Rules and regulations, Secretary of the Interior, June 18, 1936, 1 F.R. 672.

2.2 Preservation of public property, natural features, and curiosities. (a) The destruction, injury, defacement, removal, or disturbance in any way of any public building, sign, equipment, monument, statue, marker, or other structure, or any tree, flower, vegetation, rock, mineral, formation, stalactite, stalagmite, phenomenon of crystallization, incrustration, in any lava tube, cave, steam

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vent, or cone, or of any animal, bird, or other wildlife, of any ruins or relic, or of any other public property of any kind is prohibited: Provided, That flowers may be gathered in small quantities when, in the judgment of the superintendent or custodian, their removal will not impair the beauty of the park or monument. Before any flowers are picked, permit must be secured from the superintendent or custodian.

(b) Sequoia cones shall not be disturbed, or removed from any national park or monument.

(c) No canes, umbrellas, or sticks of any kind may be taken into caves or caverns. The tossing or throwing of rocks or other material inside the caves or caverns is prohibited.

(d) Collections for scientific or educational purposes shall be permitted only in accordance with written permits first had and obtained from the superintendent.

(e) Bona-fide claimants or entrymen claiming or owning land reasonably adjacent to Grand Teton National Park must secure written permits before cutting any dead or down timber within the park, and are restricted to cutting such timber for firewood for their own consumption.

(f) Visitors in Hawaii National Park may, with the permission of the park superintendent, pick and eat, or carry away, such fruits as the superintendent may designate.** [Sec. 1]

2.3 Camping. (a) No camping is permitted outside the specially designated camp sites, except when necessary in connection with trips to isolated sections of the parks and monuments.

(b) No person, party, or organization shall be permitted to camp in any public camping area in the parks or monuments more than 30 days in any calendar year.

(c) Campers shall keep their campgrounds clean. Combustible rubbish shall be burned on camp fires and all other garbage and refuse of all kinds shall be placed in garbage cans provided for the purpose. At new or unfrequented camps, garbage shall be burned or buried.

(d) Saddle, pack, or draft animals shall not be kept in or near any camping area. No such animals shall be kept on the floor of Yosemite Valley except in the operator's corral.

(e) Only in areas designated by the park superintendent may campers use any dead or fallen timber for fuel, except that Sequoia wood or bark shall not be disturbed for any purpose.

(f) The installation of any permanent camping facilities by visitors is prohibited in all parks and monuments. The digging or leveling of the ground in any camp site without a ranger's permission is prohibited.

(g) Camps must be completely razed and the sites cleaned before the departure of campers. In dismantling camps, all material, such as poles, bark, planks, platforms, etc., used in construction of temporary camps must be removed, and, if combustible, must be piled on the public camp woodpiles.

(h) Campers shall not leave their camps unattended for more than 48 hours without special permission of the superintendent, obtained

*For statutory and source citations, see note to § 2.1.

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in advance. Camping equipment left unattended in any public camping area for 48 hours or more is subject to removal by order of the superintendent, the expense of such removal to be paid by the person or persons leaving such equipment.

(i) No camp may be established in a park or monument and used as a base for hunting outside such park or monument.

(j) No camp shall be placed within 25 feet of any well-defined water course, water hydrant, or main road.

(k) Any article likely to frighten horses shall not be hung near a road or trail used by horses.

(1) The superintendents or custodians may, with the approval of the Director of the National Park Service, establish hours during which quiet must be maintained at any camp, and prohibit the running of motors at or near a camp during such hours.

(m) No visitors shall be permitted to camp within the canyon in Canyon de Chelly National Monument.

(n) No camping is permitted in any part of the Muir Woods National Monument, and no hikers or visitors shall enter or remain therein between one-half hour after sunset and one-half hour before sunrise.** [Sec. 2]

2.4 Picnicking. Picnicking or the eating of lunches is prohibited in restricted areas designated by the superintendent.** [Sec. 3]

2.5 Use of park waters. (a) In Platt National Park the superintendent may, whenever it becomes necessary to do so, restrict the use of the waters of any of the springs in the park to immediate drinking purposes at such springs.

(b) In Hot Springs National Park, the superintendent may establish the hours during which bathing will be permitted in the pool. (c) Campers and others shall not wash clothing or cooking utensils ín, or pollute in any other manner, the waters of the parks or monuments. Bathing in any of the streams or lakes near the regularly travelled thoroughfares in the parks and monuments is not permitted without suitable bathing clothes.* [Secs. 2, 4]

CROSS REFERENCE: For bath house regulations of Hot Springs National Park, see Part 21.

2.6 Sanitation. (a) Garbage, papers, or refuse of any kind shall not be thrown or left on or along roads, in camping or picnic areas, or on any other park or monument lands.

(b) All comfort stations shall be used in a clean and sanitary

manner.

(c) Contamination of watersheds, of water supplies, or of any water used for drinking purposes is strictly prohibited. [Sec. 5]

2.7 Fires. (a) Fires shall not be kindled near or on the roots of trees, dead wood, moss, dry leaves, forest mold, or other vegetable refuse, but in some open space on rocks or earth. On public campgrounds the regular fireplaces constructed for the convenience of visitors must be used. Should camp be made in a locality where no such open space exists or is provided, the dead wood, moss, dry leaves, etc., shall be scraped away to the rock or earth over an area considerably larger than that required for the fire.

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*For statutory and source citations, see note to § 2.1.

(b) Fires shall be lighted only when necessary and, when no longer needed, shall be completely extinguished, and all embers and beds smothered with earth or water, so that there remains no possibility of reignition.

(c) Permission to burn on any cleanup operation within the parks or monuments must first be obtained in writing from the office of the superintendent or custodian, and in such cases as it is deemed advisable such burning will be under Government supervision. All costs of suppression and all damage caused by reason of loss of control of such burning operations shall be paid by the person or persons to whom such permit has been granted.

(d) No lighted cigarette, cigar, pipe heel, match, or other burning material shall be thrown from any vehicle or saddle horse or dropped into any grass, leaves, twigs, tree mold, or other combustible or inflammable materials.

(e) Smoking or the building of fires on any lands within the parks or monuments may be prohibited or limited by the superintendent or custodian when, in his judgment, the hazard makes such action

necessary.

(f) All persons making trips away from established camps are required to obtain written fire permits from the nearest ranger before building camp fires.

(g) The use of fireworks or firecrackers in the parks and monuments is prohibited, except with the written permission of the superintendent or custodian.* [Sec. 6]

2.8 Protection of wildlife. (a) The parks and monuments are sanctuaries for wildlife of every sort, and all hunting, or the killing, wounding, frightening, capturing, or attempting to capture at any time of any wild bird or animal, except dangerous animals when it is necessary to prevent them from destroying human lives or inflicting personal injury, is prohibited within the limits of the parks and

monuments.

(b) Unauthorized possession within a park or monument of the dead body or any part thereof of any wild bird or animal shall be prima facie evidence that the person or persons having the same are guilty of violating this section.

(c) During the hunting season arrangements must be made at entrance stations to identify and transport through the parks and monuments, where necessary, the carcasses of birds or animals legally killed outside the parks and monuments. Failure to make such arrangements shall be deemed a violation of this section.*t [Sec. 7]

2.9 Firearms, explosives, and traps. (a) Firearms, explosives, traps, seines, and nets are prohibited within the parks and monuments, except upon written permission of the superintendent or custodian. Visitors entering or traveling through the parks and monuments to places beyond shall, at entrance, report and, if required to do so, surrender all such objects in their possession to the first park or monument officer, and, in proper cases, may obtain his written permission to carry them through the park or monument sealed. Failure to obtain such written permission shall be deemed a violation of this section. The Government assumes no responsi

**For statutory and source citations, see note to § 2.1.

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bility for the loss of, or damage to, any such objects so surrendered to any park or monument officer, nor are park or monument officers authorized to accept the responsibility or custody of any other property for the convenience of the visitors.

(b) The superintendent or custodian of a park or monument may, in his discretion, permit the carrying of firearms by employees under his administrative jurisdiction when such possession is deemed necessary in the performance of official duties.*t [Secs. 8, 35]

2.10 Fishing. (a) Persons desiring to fish in the waters of the Yosemite, Sequoia, Lassen, General Grant, Grand Canyon, Grand Teton, Acadia, Wind Cave, Great Smoky Mountains, Mammoth Cave, and Zion National Parks, and the national monuments under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service must secure a sporting fishing license, as required by the laws of the state in which such park or monument is situated. All fishing in such parks and monuments must be done in conformity with the laws of the State regarding open seasons, size of fish, and the limit of catch, except as otherwise provided in the following paragraphs, which are applicable to all parks and monuments:

(b) Fishing with nets, seines, traps, or by the use of drugs or explosives, or for merchandise or profit, or in any other way than with hook and line, the rod or line being held in hand, is prohibited.

(c) Fishing in particular waters may be suspended, or restricted in regard to the use of particular kinds of bait, when the superintendent or custodian, with the approval of the Director of the National Park Service, shall determine such suspension or restriction necessary and shall post such restrictions or suspensions.

(d) The number of fish that may be taken by one person in any one day from the various lakes and streams may be regulated by the superintendent or custodian, with the approval of the Director of the National Park Service. Unless otherwise determined and posted, the number shall be limited to 10 fish. Possession of more than 2 days' catch by any person at any one time shall be construed as a violation of this section.

(e) No fish less than 6 inches long may be retained, unless a different limit be determined by the superintendent with the approval of the Director of the National Park Service and posted in the particular park or monument. All fish hooked less than such limit in length shall be carefully handled with moist hands and returned at once to the water if not seriously injured. Undersized fish retained because seriously injured shall be counted in the number of fish which may be taken in one day.

(f) The possession of live minnows, chubs, or other bait fish, or the use thereof as bait, is prohibited in all the national parks and monuments, except Acadia National Park and Fort Jefferson National Monument.

(g) The digging of worms for bait is prohibited in all parks and

monuments.

(h) The canning or curing of fish for the purpose of transporting them out of a national park or monument is prohibited.

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**For statutory and source citations, see note to § 2.1.

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