---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 395d"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "395d"
heading: "Forfeiture of property used for unlawful purposes"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/395d"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLI — Hawaii National Park"
---

# §395d. Forfeiture of property used for unlawful purposes


All guns, traps, teams, horses, or means of transportation of every nature or description used by any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) within said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) limits when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, or capturing such wild beasts, birds, or animals shall be forfeited to the United States and may be seized by the officers in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) and held pending the prosecution of any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) arrested under charge of violating the provisions of this Act, and upon conviction under this Act of such [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) using said guns, traps, teams, horses, or other means of transportation, such forfeiture shall be adjudicated as a penalty in [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the other punishment provided in this Act. Such forfeited property shall be disposed of and accounted for by and under the authority of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 200, § 5, 46 Stat. 228.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act Apr. 19, 1930, which is classified to section 395 to 395j of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park

Designation of portion of Hawaii National Park situated on island of Hawaii as Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, effective Sept. 22, 1961, see section 391d of this title.

### Haleakala̅ National Park

Establishment of detached portion of Hawaii National Park lying on island of Maui as Haleakala̅ National Park, effective July 1, 1961, see section 396b of this title.