---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 43"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "43"
heading: "Sequoia National Park; rules and regulations; leases; fish and game; trespassers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/43"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §43. Sequoia National Park; rules and regulations; leases; fish and game; trespassers


Sequoia National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) shall be under the exclusive control of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary or proper for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for the preservation from injury of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities or wonders within said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and their retention in their natural condition. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may, in his discretion, grant leases for building purposes for terms not exceeding ten years of small parcels of ground not exceeding five acres, at such places in said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) as shall require the erection of buildings for the accommodation of visitors; all of the proceeds of said leases and other revenues that may be derived from any source connected with said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) to be expended under his direction in the management of the same and the construction of roads and paths therein. He shall provide against the wanton destruction of the fish and game found within said [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and against their capture or destruction, for the purposes of merchandise or profit. He shall also cause all [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) trespassing upon the same after the passage of this section and [section 41 of this title](/usc/16/41.md) to be removed therefrom, and, generally, shall be authorized to [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) all such measures as shall be necessary or proper to fully carry out the objects and purposes of this section and [section 41 of this title](/usc/16/41.md).


## Source credit

(Sept. 25, 1890, ch. 926, § 2, 26 Stat. 478.)