---
kind: "section"
citation: "36 C.F.R. § 261.9"
title: "36"
number: "261.9"
heading: "Property."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/36/261.9"
---

# §261.9. Property.


The following are prohibited:

- (a) **Damaging any natural feature or other property of the United States.**
- (b) **Removing any natural feature or other property of the United States.**
- (c) **Damaging any plant that is classified as a threatened, endangered, sensitive, rare, or unique species.**
- (d) **Removing any plant that is classified as a threatened, endangered, sensitive, rare, or unique species.**
- (e) Entering any building, structure, or enclosed area owned or controlled by the United States when such building, structure, or enclosed area is not open to the public.
- (f) Using any pesticide except for personal use as an insect repellent or as provided by special-use authorization for other minor uses.
- (g) Digging in, excavating, disturbing, injuring, destroying, or in any way damaging any prehistoric, historic, or archaeological resource, structure, site, artifact, or property.
- (h) **Removing any prehistoric, historic, or archaeological resource, structure, site, artifact, property.**
- (i) Excavating, damaging, or removing any cave resource from a cave without a special use authorization, or removing any cave resource for commercial purposes.
- (j) **Damaging or removing without authorization any personal property that belongs to another person.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981, as amended at 49 FR 25450, June 21, 1984; 51 FR 30356, Aug. 26, 1986; 59 FR 31152, June 17, 1994; 80 FR 21629, Apr. 17, 2015; 89 FR 92815, Nov. 25, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1011(f); 16 U.S.C. 460l-6d, 472, 551, 620(f), 1133(c)-(d)(1), 1246(i).

### Source

Source: 42 FR 2957, Jan. 14, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[46 FR 33520, June 30, 1981, as amended at 49 FR 25450, June 21, 1984; 51 FR 30356, Aug. 26, 1986; 59 FR 31152, June 17, 1994; 80 FR 21629, Apr. 17, 2015; 89 FR 92815, Nov. 25, 2024]