---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 606"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "606"
heading: "Offense for unlawful cutting on mineral lands; punishment"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/606"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — Protection of Timber, and Depredations"
---

# §606. Offense for unlawful cutting on mineral lands; punishment


Any [person](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) or [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) who shall violate the provisions of sections [604](/usc/16/604.md) and [605](/usc/16/605.md) of this title, or any rules and regulations in pursuance thereof made by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $500, and to which may be added imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.


## Source credit

(June 3, 1878, ch. 150, § 3, 20 Stat. 89.)