---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 676"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "676"
heading: "Hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing game on Norbeck Wildlife Preserve unlawful"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/676"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §676. Hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing game on Norbeck Wildlife Preserve unlawful


When such [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) have been designated as provided for in [section 675 of this title](/usc/16/675.md), hunting, trapping, killing, or capturing of game animals and birds upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall be unlawful, except under such regulations as may be prescribed from time to time by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Agriculture. It is the purpose of this section to protect from trespass the [public lands](/usc/16/620e.md?p=7) of the United States and the game animals and birds which may be thereon, and not to interfere with the operation of the local game laws as affecting private or [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) lands.


## Source credit

(June 5, 1920, ch. 247, §§ 2, 3, 41 Stat. 986; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 11, 62 Stat. 860.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

First sentence of section is from section 2 and the last from section 3 of act June 5, 1920.

### Amendments

1948—Act June 25, 1948, struck out penal provisions. See section 41 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1948 Amendment

Section 20 of act June 25, 1948, provided that the amendment made by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.