---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 104908"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "104908"
heading: "Bows in parks"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/104908"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1049 — Miscellaneous"
---

# §104908. Bows in parks

- (a) **Definition of Not Ready for Immediate Use.—** The term “not ready for immediate use” means—
  - (1) a bow or crossbow, the arrows of which are secured or stowed in a quiver or other arrow transport case; and
  - (2) with respect to a crossbow, uncocked.
- (b) **Vehicular Transportation Authorized.—** The [Director](/usc/54/100102.md?p=1) shall not promulgate or enforce any regulation that prohibits an individual from transporting bows and crossbows that are not ready for immediate use across any [System unit](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) in the vehicle of the individual if—
  - (1) the individual is not otherwise prohibited by law from possessing the bows and crossbows;
  - (2) the bows or crossbows that are not ready for immediate use remain inside the vehicle of the individual throughout the period during which the bows or crossbows are transported across [System](/usc/54/100102.md?p=5) land; and
  - (3) the possession of the bows and crossbows is in compliance with the law of the State in which the [System unit](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) is located.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–9, title II, § 2409(a), Mar. 12, 2019, 133 Stat. 751.)