---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460x–4"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460x–4"
heading: "Hunting and fishing; issuance of regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460x-4"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXXXII — Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore"
---

# §460x–4. Hunting and fishing; issuance of regulations


In administering the lakeshore the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall permit hunting and fishing on lands and waters under his jurisdiction in accordance with the laws of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Michigan and the United States applicable thereto. The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), after consultation with the appropriate agency of the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Michigan, may designate zones and establish periods where and when no hunting shall be permitted for reasons of public safety, administration, or public use and enjoyment and issue regulations, consistent with this section, as he may determine necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–479, § 5, Oct. 21, 1970, 84 Stat. 1076.)