---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 689b"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "689b"
heading: "Hunting, pursuing, capturing in Tahquitz National Game Preserve unlawful"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/689b"
units:
  - "Chapter 6 — Game and Bird Preserves; Protection"
---

# §689b. Hunting, pursuing, capturing in Tahquitz National Game Preserve unlawful


On lands within the game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) established in [section 689a of this title](/usc/16/689a.md), hunting, pursuing, poisoning, killing, or capturing by trapping, netting, or any other means, or attempting to hunt, pursue, kill, or capture any wild animals or birds for any purpose whatever upon the lands of the United States within the limits of said game [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) shall be unlawful except as hereinafter provided.


## Source credit

(July 3, 1926, ch. 776, § 3, 44 Stat. 889; June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 14, 62 Stat. 861.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### 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.