---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 2.32"
title: "36"
number: "2.32"
heading: "Interfering with agency functions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/2.32"
---

# §2.32. Interfering with agency functions.

- (a) **The following are prohibited—**
  - (1) **Interference.** Threatening, resisting, intimidating, or intentionally interfering with a government employee or agent engaged in an official duty, or on account of the performance of an official duty.
  - (2) **Lawful order.** Violating the lawful order of a government employee or agent authorized to maintain order and control public access and movement during fire fighting operations, search and rescue operations, wildlife management operations involving animals that pose a threat to public safety, law enforcement actions, and emergency operations that involve a threat to public safety or park resources, or other activities where the control of public movement and activities is necessary to maintain order and public safety.
  - (3) **False information.** Knowingly giving a false or fictitious report or other false information: (i) To an authorized person investigating an accident or violation of law or regulation or; (ii) on an application for a permit.
  - (4) **False Report.** Knowingly giving a false report for the purpose of misleading a government employee or agent in the conduct of official duties, or making a false report that causes a response by the United States to a fictitious event.
- (b) The regulations contained in this section apply, regardless of land ownership, on all lands and waters within a park area that are under the legislative jurisdiction of the United States.

## Notes

### Amendments

[48 FR 30282, June 30, 1983, as amended at 52 FR 35240, Sept. 18, 1987]

### Authority

Authority: 54 U.S.C. 100101, 100751, 320102.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 30282, June 30, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[48 FR 30282, June 30, 1983, as amended at 52 FR 35240, Sept. 18, 1987]