---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 403c–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "403c–4"
heading: "Forfeiture of property used in commission of offenses"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/403c-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVI — Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
---

# §403c–4. Forfeiture of property used in commission of offenses


All guns, traps, nets, seines, 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 the limits of said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) when engaged in killing, trapping, ensnaring, [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18), or capturing such wild beasts, birds, fish, 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 prosecution of any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) arrested under the 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, nets, seines, 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 prescribed 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

(Aug. 19, 1937, ch. 703, § 4, 50 Stat. 701.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is act Aug. 19, 1937, which is classified to sections 403c–1 to 403c–11 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.